Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0 Houston Oilers 20 Sunday 12 September 1976 at the Houston Astrodome HOU 6:31-2Q Willis 13 pass from Pastorini (Butler kick) HOU 7:00-3Q Butler FG33 HOU 10:46-4Q Burrough 44 pass from Pastorini (Butler kick) HOU 3:02-4Q Butler FG44 The video clip shown is how close Steve Spurrier and Lee McGriff came to hooking up for the first touchdown in franchise history INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: E.Johnson 5-15, C.Davis 3-15, Carter 12-7, DuBose 3-5, Dickinson 1-4, Kendrick 1-3, Spurrier 1-3. OILERS: Coleman 25-142, Willis 8-30, Dawkins 4-11, Hardeman 3-3, Pastorini 1-2, Baker 1-2. PASSING BUCS: Spurrier 21-8-90-2-0, Dickinson 5-1-15-0-0. OILERS: Pastorini 27-17-194-1-2, Hadl 2-2-11-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: McKay 3-49, DuBose 2-21, B.Moore 2-21, E.Johnson 2-14. OILERS: Burrough 5-92, BJohnson 5-41, Coleman 4-35, Willis 1-13, Sawyer 1-12, Alston 1-7, Baker 1-6, Hardeman 1-(-1). INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Stone 1-21. OILERS: Whittington 2-58. KICK RETURNS BUCS: M.Moore 3-74, Hagins 2-35. OPPONENTS: Hardeman 1-40. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Reece 2-4, Cotney 1-8, Hagins 1-2. OPPONENTS: Johnson 7-76, Whittington 2-10. SACKS BUCS: L.Selmon 2-23. OPPONENTS: Culp 1-8, Bethea 1-9, Little 1-4, Washington 1-9, Thompson 0.5-7, Rossovich 0.5-7. GAME REPORTS AND COMMENTS Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play Click here for a game report The Buccaneers, 17 point underdogs and making their NFL debut, went down to a 20-0 defeat at the hands of the Houston Oilers in a game that left a lot to be desired on both sides of the field. Tampa Bay was held to eight first downs. John McKay's take on the game. "Let's see, has this team here, Houston, lost any games? I believe they have been playing for 6,000 years and I don't remember them winning any championships. We are an expansion team, but this is our expansion team. We will be back." OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 75 Reavis LDE 78 Rudolph LG 72 Fest DT 76 Pear C 73 Ward DT 63 LSelmon RG 77 Little RDE 66 Toomay RT 74 Current LLB 58 CPeterson TE 86 Moore MLB 52 Reese WR 83 McGriff RLB 30 Gunn WR 89 McKay LCB 40 Washington FB 35 DuBose SS 33 Cotney RB 32 Carter FS 28 Stone QB 11 Spurrier RCB 21 Blahak SUBSTITUTIONS 1 Hagins, 4 Green, 5 Roder, 18 Dickinson, 19 Johnson, 20 Kendrick, 26 Davis, 42 Oliver, 44 Moore, 46 Reese, 51 Ryczek, 53 Ball, 56 Cooper, 57 JPeterson, 61 DSelmon, 64 Robinson, 67 Alward, 79 Wilson, 82 Pagac DID NOT PLAY 13 Lawrence, 88 Smith INACTIVE 25 Jordan, 27 Davis, 43 Williams, 54 Wood, 71 Young, 80 Novak