Tampa Bay Buccaneers 29 Green Bay Packers 10 Sunday 26 December 1999 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING TB 10:52-1Q Gramatica FG49 TB 14:44-2Q Gramatica FG28 TB 7:16-2Q Gramatica FG33 GB 2:05-2Q Longwell FG46 GB 0:21-2Q Levens 20 pass from Favre (Longwell kick) TB 8:35-3Q Dunn 8 pass from King (Gramatica kick) TB 11:30-4Q Alstott 5 run (2pt conversion failed) TB 4:41-4Q Alstott 17 run (Gramatica kick)
GAME REPORTS Click here for the gamebook and play-by-play Rick Stroud reports from Raymond James Stadium At the heart of third down conversions is Warrick Dunn Home sweet home sounds oh so good
The Bucs shook off a 10-9 half-time deficit to run away with the game in the second half and leave themselves one win away from their first division title in 18 years. "That's a ballclub we've been chasing for a very long time. It was kind of ironic that it came down to us burying them and us moving on," Warren Sapp said. "It's strange like that sometimes. We wanted to come out and finish them off”
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Alstott 19-79, Dunn 13-25, King 5-20. PACKERS: Favre 2-8, Levens 10-4. PASSING BUCS: King 30-17-133-1-1, Royals 1-1-17-0-0. PACKERS: Favre 48-25-234-2-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Dunn 6-48, Green 4-24, Williams 2-17, Moore 1-20, Robinson 1-17, Green 1-13, Anthony 1-8, Alstott 1-3, Hape 1-0. PACKERS: Levens 9-47, Schroeder 6-54, Freeman 5-72, Thomason 3-33, Bradford 2-28. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Robinson 2-36. PACKERS: Williams 1-12. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Dunn 3-70. PACKERS: Jordan 5-70, Mitchell 1-23, Parker 1-16. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Williams 3-16. PACKERS: Jordan 3-12. SACKS BUCS: Jones 1-3. PACKERS: none.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Gruber DE 72 Ahanotu LG 65 Dogins DT 77 Culpepper C 61 Mayberry DT 99 Sapp RG 73 Middleton DE 94 White RT 71 Wunsch LLB 53 Quarles TE 83 Moore MLB 56 Nickerson WR 81 Green RLB 55 Brooks WR 87 Emanuel LCB 21 Abraham FB 40 Alstott RCB 20 Barber RB 28 Dunn SS 47 Lynch QB 10 King FS 24 Robinson PLAYED 3 Royals, 7 Gramatica, 25 Kelly, 27 Abdullah, 30 Smith, 34 Jackson, 43 McLeod, 50 Gooch, 51 Singleton, 58 Davis, 59 Duncan, 64 Diaz, 68 Unutoa, 69 Pierson, 75 Washington, 78 Jones, 80 Davis, 82 Hape, 85 Anthony, 86 Williams, 92 McFarland, 95 McLaughlin DID NOT PLAY 15 Zeier INACTIVES 12 Dilfer, 13 Milanovich, 31 Young, 66 Blackman, 79 Hegamin, 84 McDonald, 97 Jackson, 98 Cannida
COMMENTARY CREW Dick Stockton and Matt Millen