Tampa Bay Buccaneers 6 St.Louis Rams 11 Sunday 23 January 2000 at the Trans World Dome
SCORING TB 5:37-1Q Gramatica FG25 STL 14:41-3Q Wilkins FG24 STL 8:10-3Q Safety - snap went through the endzone TB 0:03-4Q Gramatica FG23 STL 7:29-4Q Proehl 30 pass from Warner (2pt conversion failed)
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They were so close. They had hung on for so long, you'd watched the time ticking down and you'd just started to believe that the little Bucs could derail the mighty Ram offensive machine. Then came that TD pass to Ricky Proehl, the replay reversal of Bert Emanuel's "catch" followed and it was all over.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Alstott 12-39, Dunn 9-35, King 2-3. RAMS: Faulk 17-44, Hakim 1-6, Holcombe 1-2, Warner 3-(-1). PASSING BUCS: King 29-13-163-2-0. RAMS: Warner 43-26-258-3-1 RECEIVING BUCS: Green 4-59, Dunn 4-37, Williams 2-28, Emanuel 1-22, Alstott 1-9, Moore 1-8. RAMS: Holt 7-68, Proehl 6-100, Bruce 3-22, Faulk 3-5, Hakim 2- 27, Holcombe 2-5, Williams 1-22, Robinson 1-11, Conwell 1-(-2) INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Kelly 1-15, Nickerson 1-6, White 1-0. RAMS: Lyght 1-19, Bly 1-9. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Dunn 3-60. RAMS: Horne 2-38. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Williams 4-45. RAMS: Hakim 3-25. SACKS BUCS: none. RAMS: Wistrom 1-13, Clemons 1-8, Carter 1-6, Farr 1-5, Zgonina 1-5.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 69 Pierson DE 72 Ahanotu LG 64 Diaz DT 77 Culpepper C 61 Mayberry DT 99 Sapp RG 73 Middleton DE 94 White RT 71 Wunsch LLB 53 Quarles TE 83 Moore MLB 56 Nickerson TE 82 Hape RLB 55 Brooks WR 86 Williams LCB 21 Abraham FB 40 Alstott RCB 20 Barber RB 28 Dunn SS 47 Lynch QB 10 King FS 24 Robinson PLAYED 3 Royals, 7 Gramatica, 25 Kelly, 27 Abdullah, 30 Smith, 31 Young, 34 Jackson, 35 McAfee, 43 McLeod, 50 Gooch, 58 Davis, 59 Duncan, 65 Dogins, 68 Unutoa, 75 Washington, 78 Jones, 79 Hegamin, 80 Davis, 81 Green, 84 McDonald, 87 Emanuel, 92 McFarland, 95 McLaughlin DID NOT PLAY 15 Zeier INACTIVES 12 Dilfer, 13 Milanovich, 49 Jordan, 51 Singleton, 76 Curry, 85 Anthony, 97 Jackson, 98 Cannida
COMMENTARY CREW Pat Summerall and John Madden