Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 Minnesota Vikings 10 Sunday 18 October 1987 at Tampa Stadium
SCORING MIN 10:35-1Q Dawson FG34 TB 4:11-1Q Tiffin FG50 TB 13:10-3Q Wells fumble recovery in the endzone (Tiffin kick) MIN 10:26-3Q Womack 23 pass from Adams (Dawson kick) TB 6:00-3Q Walker 30 interception return (Tiffin kick) TB 8:34-4Q Tiffin FG37
In front of the lowest crowd ever at Tampa Stadium, Kevin Walker was named the NFC's Defensive Player of the Week for his two interceptions, one of which went back for a score, but this award was for the whole defense. The Bucs forced seven sacks including a franchise record-tying three by Calvin Turner, and four interceptions. Arthur Wells recovered a fumble in the endzone to put the Bucs 10-3 up early in the third quarter, and after Adams had thrown a TD pass to tie the scores, Walker's second interception of the game put the Bucs ahead to stay.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Gladman 12-29, Ricks 8-23, Wright 5-19, Zorn 4-4. VIKINGS: Womack 4-13, Harrell 5-8, Frye 4-4, Adams 2-2, Wilson 1-3, Scribner 1-(-7). PASSING BUCS: Zorn 36-20-199-2-0. VIKINGS: Adams 37-20-195-4-1. RECEIVING BUCS: S.Holloway 8-107, Wright 7-51, Streater 2-15, Gladman 2- 8, Dixon 1-18. VIKINGS: Womack 5-46, Brim 4-49, Frye 3-25, Harrell 3-20, Gillespie 2-28, Wilson 2-14, Daugherty 1-13. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Walker 2-30, Tripoli 1-0, Montoute 1-0. VIKINGS: Smith 1-24, Louallen 1-16. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Curry 2-38, Walker 1-0. VIKINGS: Bess 2-42, Womack 2-24, Harrell 1-4. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Curry 3-32. VIKINGS: Bess 3-18. SACKS BUCS: Turner 3.5-20, Turpin 2-12, Nordgren 1-7, Montoute 0.5-4. VIKINGS: Mays 1-6.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 64 Pumphery LDE 90 Clark LG 69 Huddleston NT 76 Nordgren C 50 Turk RDE 67 Harris RG 62 Jordan LILB 56 Montoute RT 68 Smith LILB 53 McCallister TE 80 Holloway RILB 54 Gant WR 89 Streater ROLB 51 Turpin WR 87 Carter LCB 37 Walker FB 34 Wright RCB 33 George RB 47 Ricks SS 40 Quinn QB 10 Zorn FS 26 Tripoli PLAYED 1 Tiffin, 5 Criswell, 22 Clark, 23 King, 24 Land, 29 Paige, 32 Gladman, 59 Pennington, 70 Turner, 81 Shakespeare, 85 Wells, 88 Dixon, 90 Clark, 91 Jacobs, 94 Riggins, 98 Ramey DID NOT PLAY 7 Reaves, 11 Hold, 55 Pitcock, 60 O'Connor, 72 Hunt, 73 Johnson, 82 Modesitt
COMMENTARY CREW James Brown and Dan Jiggetts
GAME HIGHLIGHTS        Click on the boxes below to watch the clip Arthur Wells will always remember the day he scored an NFL touchdown Kevin Walker had a pick six as the B-Bucs kept scoring points in defense Miles Turpin had two of the seven Buccaneer sacks on the day