Tampa Bay Buccaneers 38 Minnesota Vikings 24
Sunday 3 November 2002 at Raymond James Stadium
FOX COMMENTARY CREW Kenny Albert and Tim Green
The previous two seasons had seen the Bucs break out of a
scoring drought by bringing Minnesota into town and 2002 was
no difference as Brad Johnson returned from injury to tie a
franchise record with five scoring passes in this rout of the
Vikings. Keyshawn Johnson had two of the touchdowns and
amassed 133 yards on nine receptions, whilst Mike Alstott did
his ball control thing during the second half, also catching the
fifth and final touchdown pass of the game from Brad to seal the
Tampa Bay scoring, Vikings’ QB Daunte Culpepper was picked
off twice and sacked three times as the Buc defense made the
key plays when they needed to.
GAME SCORING
TB
13:12-1Q
Williams 15 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick)
TB
1:03-1Q
Dudley 2 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick)
TB
12:16-2Q
Gramatica FG36
TB
7:16-2Q
KJohnson 2 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick)
MIN
6:49-2Q
Bennett 85 run (Anderson kick)
MIN
0:00-2Q
Anderson FG26
TB
5:10-3Q
KJohnson 19 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica)
MIN
2:08-3Q
Williams 1 run (Anderson kick)
TB
13:34-4Q
Alstott 1 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick)
MIN
4:40-4Q
Williams 1 run (Anderson kick)
GAME REPORTS
Joe Henderson's column
Martin Fennelly's award-winning column
The defense gets carried
Keyshawn comes up big
The line answers back
From the Minnesota media
Game notes and anecdotes
The game report
What they had to say afterwards
The gamebook and the play by play of the game
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
72 Oben
LDE
94 Spires
LG
77 Washington
UT
91 Darby
C
62 Christy
DT
99 Sapp
RG
60 Coleman
RDE
97 Rice
RT
67 Walker
LLB
51 Singleton
TE
85 Dilger
MLB
53 Quarles
WR
19 Johnson
RLB
55 Brooks
WR
86 Williams
LCB
25 Kelly
FB
43 Cook
SS
47 Lynch
RB
40 Alstott
FS
34 Jackson
QB
14 Johnson
RCB
20 Barber
PLAYED
7 Gramatica, 9 Tupa, 23 Phillips, 26 Smith, 27 Stecker, 32 Pittman, 35
Ivy, 38 Howell, 52 Webster, 58 Golden, 66 Benjamin, 74 Green, 75
Brown, 80 Yoder, 81 Lee, 84 Barlow, 88 Dudley, 89 Crawford, 90
Gurley, 96 Wyms, 98 Smith
DID NOT PLAY
10 King, 76 Reyes
INACTIVE
11 Johnson, 30 Barnes, 31 Wansley, 34 Stephens, 71 Jenkins, 83
Jurevicius, 87 McCardell, 92 McFarland
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Stecker 1-59, Alstott 26-55, Pittman 3-19.
VIKINGS: Bennett 10-114, Williams 7-43, Moss 2-8, Culpepper 4-8.
PASSING
BUCS: B.Johnson 31-24-313-0-5.
VIKINGS: Culpepper 29-18-225-2-0.
RECEIVING
BUCS: K.Johnson 9-133, Williams 4-49, Dilger 3-61, Alstott 3-16, Dudley 2-
11, Pittman 1-18, Barlow 1-13, Stecker 1-12.
VIKINGS: Williams 5-24, Moss 4-41, Kleinsasser 3-64, Bennett 3-27, Walsh
2-40, James 1-29.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Singleton 1-0, Sapp 1-0.
VIKINGS: none.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Smith 1-23, Stecker 1-20.
VIKINGS: Williams 4-81, James 1-28, Davis 1-14.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Williams 0-0.
VIKINGS: none.
SACKS
BUCS: Rice 2-10, Barber 1-1.
VIKINGS: none.
VIDEO CLIPS Click on the boxes for the main plays from the game
Karl Williams had the first of Brad Johnson’s touchdown passes
Keyshawn added one of his own
Brad tied Steve DeBerg’s franchise record of five TD passes in a game