Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30 Kansas City Chiefs 27 Saturday 2 November 2008 at Arrowhead Stadium
SCORING KC 8:19-1Q Bowe 7 pass from Thigpen (Barth kick) KC 4:47-1Q Smith 1 run (Barth kick) TB 13:04-2Q Bryant FG25 KC 10:12-2Q Thigpen 37 pass from Bradley (Barth kick) KC 2:13-2Q Barth FG39 TB 2:01-2Q Smith 97 kick return (Bryant kick) TB 0:00-2Q Bryant FG43 TB 13:36-4Q A.Smith 3 pass from Graham (2pt conversion failed) KC 7:38-4Q Barth FG28 TB 0:19-4Q A.Bryant 24 pass from Garcia (A.Smith pass from Garcia) TB 10:24-OT Bryant FG34
A truly wild one in KC - the Chiefs were 21-3 up early including a flea-flicker WR option pass to the QB but then back came the Bucs led by Clifton Smith who returned the second-ever Buccaneer kick for a touchdown. 19 seconds remained when Jeff Garcia converted a two-point conversion and then won it in overtime.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Graham 19-62, C.Smith 3-17, Bennett 2-1, Clayton 1-1. CHIEFS: Charles 18-106, Smith 10-46, Thigpen 6-22, Savage 2-9. PASSING BUCS: Garcia 43-31-339-1-1, Graham 1-1-3-0-1. CHIEFS: Thigpen 25-14-164-0-1, Bradley 1-1-37-0-1. RECEIVING BUCS: A.Bryant 8-115, Hilliard 6-55, Graham 5-29, Clayton 4-57, Gilmore 4-40, A.Smith 2-12, Galloway 1-22, Cook 1-9, C.Smith 1-3. CHIEFS: Gonzalez 7-62, Bradley 4-65, Bowe 2-29, Thigpen 1-37, Cottam 1-8. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. CHIEFS: Carr 1-35. KICK RETURNS BUCS: C.Smith 6-232, Clark 1-22. CHIEFS: Savage 4-72. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: C.Smith 2-27. CHIEFS: Savage 2-9. SACKS BUCS: Ruud 1-0. CHIEFS: none.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Penn DE 93 Carter LG 76 Zuttah DT 71 Haye C 52 Faine DT 95 Hovan RG 75 Joseph DE 90 Adams RT 65 Trueblood WLB 55 Brooks TE 81 Smith MLB 51 Ruud WR 80 Clayton DB 25 Talib WR 89 Bryant LCB 31 Buchanon FB 33 Cook RCB 20 Barber RB 34 Graham SS 21 Piscitelli QB 7 Garcia FS 36 Jackson PLAYED 3 Bryant, 9 Bidwell, 19 Hilliard, 22 Smith, 26 Allen, 29 Bennett, 43 Mack, 48 Economos, 54 Hayes, 57 Hayward, 58 Black, 59 June, 79 Mahan, 84 Galloway, 86 Stevens, 87 Clark, 88 Gilmore, 91 White, 97 Wilkerson, 98 Sims DID NOT PLAY 12 McCown, 77 Lee, 96 Peterson INACTIVES 8 Griese, 10 Jackson, 11 Johnson, 23 Phillips, 28 Dunn, 35 Askew, 78 Sears, 85 Stovall
COMMENTARY CREW Ron Pitts and Tony Boselli
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings reports from Arrowhead Stadium Joe Henderson doesn't know how, he just knows it's a win How Rick Stroud saw the game unfold Gary Shelton weighs in with his comments The dean of Tampa sports writers, Tom McEwen And then Clifton Smith made it two There were enough heroes to go round Tom Jones looks at the Fox coverage of the game Buccaneer team notes and anecdotes Scott Smith's official game report Click here for the gamebook and play-by-play