Tampa Bay Buccaneers 15 Chicago Bears 27 Sunday 20 November 1988 at Tampa Stadium CHI 10:38-1Q Anderson 1 run (Butler kick) CHI 6:59-1Q Anderson 17 run (Butler kick) TB 3:10-1Q Igwebuike FG27 CHI 6:10-2Q Muster 40 pass from Tomczak (Butler kick) TB 0:00-2Q Igwebuike FG23 TB 13:22-4Q Safety - Goode downed Wagner in the endzone CHI 7:29-4Q Butler FG36 CHI 2:20-4Q Butler FG43 TB 0:59-4Q Pillow 7 pass from Ferguson (Criswell kick) INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Tate 19-66, Testaverde 5-55, Howard 14-47. BEARS: Anderson 19-66, Sanders 10-50, Muster 3-17, Harbaugh 1-8, Wagner 1-0, Suhey 3-(-2). PASSING BUCS: Testaverde 22-7-86-2-0, Ferguson 10-5-77-0-1. BEARS: Tomczak 21-9-179-2-1, Harbaugh 4-1-30-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Pillow 3-47, Hill 3-37, Carrier 2-39, D.Smith 2-22, Howard 1-14, Magee 1-4. BEARS: Morris 3-70, McKinnon 2-49, Muster 1-40, Davis 1-21, Anderson 1-17, Moorehead 1-6, Thornton 1-6. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Hamilton 1-23, Harris 1-2. BEARS: Douglass 1-29, Singletary 1-13. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Elder 3-93, Futrell 1-18. BEARS: Gentry 1-42. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Futrell 4-54. BEARS: McKinnon 2-18, Kowlowski 1-0. SACKS BUCS: Cannon 1-9. BEARS: Rivers 1-10. GAME REPORTS AND COMMENTS Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play How Michelle Kaufman of the St.Petersburg Times saw the game How Michelle reported my own attendance on the sidelines How can I forget this one? Not just the first NFL game I saw live, but one I watched from the Bucs' bench as a guest of Ray Perkins. You don't realise how hard they hit in this game until you're that close, and I was close to getting decapitated by Mike Singletary at one point. The game was never in doubt, the Bears were far too good and the only historical note came when Kerry Goode recorded the first safety in Buc history. OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Gruber LDE 79 Davis LG 68 Mallory NT 95 Jarvis C 60 Grimes RDE 94 Goff RG 69 Bruhin LOLB 59 Murphy RT 72 Taylor LILB 99 Marve WR 84 Hill RILB 53 Coleman WR 88 Carrier ROLB 58 Moss TE 86 Magee LCB 29 Reynolds FB 43 Howard SS 20 Harris RB 34 Tate FS 39 Hamilton QB 14 Testaverde RCB 36 Futrell SUBSTITUTIONS 1 Igwebuike, 12 Ferguson, 13 Criswell, 21 Wright, 27 Goode, 28 Brown, 35 J Smith, 40 Elder, 47 D Smith, 50 Turk, 51 Washington, 52 V Jones, 54 Randle, 55 Rolling, 56 Walker, 64 Thomas, 71 Cooper, 73 McHale, 75 Kellin, 78 Cannon, 80 Pillow, 83 Clinkscales, 97 Lee DID NOT PLAY INACTIVE 22 R Jones, 82 Hall