1991 Falcons/Cowboys
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Somebody can help me with the year but I think it was '90, we played the Falcons in the last game of the year in Atlanta and Aikman was hurt and Babe filled in and struggled to say the least.
Dieon had a pick 6. I was there and there were a lot of Cowboy fans (of course) because the feeling was we were on our way back. Lots of fights in the stands. It was really ugly.
Dieon had a pick 6. I was there and there were a lot of Cowboy fans (of course) because the feeling was we were on our way back. Lots of fights in the stands. It was really ugly.
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windward;3026247 said:NFL Network will be showing this game at 9pm EST on Friday
I haven't seen this game since it happened.
A shootout between Chris Miller and Steve Beuerlein.
Emmitt won the rushing title that day
I seem to recall Deion playing WR at the end of the game, with Ike Holt saving the day.
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bbgun;3026254 said:
Man, BB Ike Holt brings back memories. I was in Tampa when he had a interception for a TD. The great thing about that game was we were down in the last minute and Aikman had Irvin wide open on a bomb and overthrew him.
The VERY NEXT play, we ran the same play, Irvin was wide open again and we won. It was unbelievable.
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DandyDon1722;3026253 said:
That was the last game of the 1990 season --
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199012300atl.htm
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Thanks Adam. Any recollection of the Tampa game? Reason I ask is it was almost inconceivable that their defense could give up back to back plays in that situation. It was really why the Bucs were the Bucs.
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DandyDon1722;3026265 said:
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199010210tam.htm
Irvin's winning catch was a 28-yarder with 23 seconds left. Maybe you're thinking of the incomplete bomb to Alexander Wright earler in the drive, from our 34-yard line. On the next play, Aikman threw to Novacek for 18 yards on third-and-10, then Aikman scrambled for 20 on the play after that. Then came Aikman's TD pass to Irvin.
That was our second game against the Bucs in a span of three weeks early in the 1990 season. I don't recall why we played Tampa Bay twice during the regular season that year. Maybe someone else will remember why before I have a chance to look it up.
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AdamJT13;3026271 said:
That's awesome
Thanks for that.Yeah, I remember fans screaming at the Bucs coaches and players as they were leaving the field about playing them twice every year.
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Late lightning lifts Cowboys
Irvin's catch shocks Bucs for 17-13 win
10/22/1990
By RICK GOSSELIN / The Dallas Morning News
TAMPA, Fla. – There's something about the Cowboys that brings out the worst in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Or maybe it's something about the Bucs that brings out the best in the Cowboys.
Whatever it is, the Bucs can't beat the Cowboys. Ever. Not in franchise history.
The eighth meeting between the teams – and second in three weeks – ended Sunday in the eighth victory for the Cowboys. Troy Aikman hit Michael Irvin – remember him? – with a 28-yard touchdown pass with 23 seconds left to give the Cowboys a 17-13 victory.
The Bucs were eight-point favorites – the largest they had been favored in a game in their 15-year history. A sellout Tampa Stadium crowd of 68,315 expected the Bucs to continue construction of their playoff bandwagon. Tampa Bay entered the day in second place in the NFC Central Division at 4-2, a game behind the Chicago Bears.
Cowboys 17, Buccaneers 13
The Cowboys sneaked up on the Bucs and sprung a fourth-quarter, come-from-behind victory on them similar to the 14-10 finish two weeks ago at Texas Stadium. The triumph improved the Cowboys' record to 3-4, tripling last year's victory total and equaling their total for 1988. The same team that last week gained a franchise-low 100 net yards losing at Phoenix returned home from Florida with a record that would – are you seated? – earn one of the three NFC wild-card playoff bids.
"I got that feeling in the huddle that we'd do it," said Aikman, whose 159 yards passing nearly tripled his output of last week. "The guys were all feeling it."
"It was very disappointing to lose, especially to a team that we're supposed to beat," Tampa Bay coach Ray Perkins said. "Dallas is a team we definitely felt like we should have beaten twice this year. But I guess somebody else has their own ideas of what's supposed to happen this year."
That somebody else was Cowboys cornerback Issiac Holt.
The Bucs appeared to be sleepwalking to a victory, leading 10-3 over the punchless Cowboys with less than seven minutes remaining. Then Vinny Testaverde tried to throw a short out-pattern to Danny Peebles.
Holt broke on the ball, snared it in front of Peebles, tightroped the sideline and raced 64 yards for the tying touchdown.
"Ike baited (Testaverde)," Cowboys secondary coach Dave Campo said. "He played off the guy and didn't move an inch. He sat back there and made it look like he was banged up. He was moving real slow. But when the ball was in the air, he took off. He was looking for a play and he found it.
"We've said all along he's a playmaker. He's got that little bit of something in him. When the game is on the line, he's a guy who can make the big play."
The Bucs answered by marching 64 yards in 10 plays, despite losing Testaverde with a toe injury, for the go-ahead field goal by Steve Christie with 1:56 remaining. Testaverde suffered the injury on a hit by end Lester Brinkley and never returned.
The Bucs actually put the ball in the end zone on the ninth play of the possession when Chris Chandler, filling in for Testaverde, hit Willie Drewrey on a slant pattern for what appeared to be a seven-yard touchdown. Cowboys defensive end Jim Jeffcoat even jumped offside on the play.
But Jeffcoat was drawn offside by Tampa Bay left tackle Paul Gruber. The touchdown was nullified, and the Bucs were penalized five yards for illegal procedure.
"It was a good call," Gruber said. "Chris made a hard second count, and I flinched before it."
Tony Tolbert sacked Chandler on the next play, the Cowboys' sixth sack of the game. That forced the Bucs to settle for Christie's 32-yard field goal and a 13-10 lead.
Those three points looked like more than enough against a Cowboys offense that had not scored a touchdown in seven quarters and had managed only 143 yards in the first 58 minutes.
A touchback forced the Cowboys to start from their 20-yard line. On second-and-10, Aikman hit Irvin with an 11-yard pass.
That was Irvin's first regular-season reception in more than a year. Irvin missed the final 10 games of the 1989 season and the first four games of this season as he rehabilitated his knee.
He suited up for the two previous games but did not catch a pass. But the Cowboys showed no reluctance to go to him in the final drive, even though he had dropped two passes.
"I've seen Michael have some drops in his career," said Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson, who also coached Irvin in college. "But I've also seen him make some great plays."
Five downs later, Irvin turned in another of those great plays. After an 18-yard completion to tight end Jay Novacek and a 20-yard scramble by Aikman put the Cowboys at the 28, Irvin scored his first touchdown since Oct. 8, 1989.
He beat an attempted jam by cornerback Rodney Rice at the line and angled away from safety Mark Robinson into the corner of the end zone. Aikman looked right, freezing Robinson, then went left with a bullet to Irvin's chin in the end zone.
"That's what you dream about as a wide receiver – to make the winning catch at the end of the game," Irvin said. "It was a dream game."
Bill Bates iced the victory when he intercepted a deflected Chandler pass, the Cowboys' third interception and fifth takeaway of the game. Holt had the other two interceptions, and safeties Vince Albritton and Ray Horton the two fumbles.
"I don't think they showed enough respect for us," Cowboys defensive end Daniel Stubbs said. "We read the newspaper, too. We hear them talking about how good they are and how terrible we are. They didn't give us any credit. But I think we've got their attention now."
Irvin's catch shocks Bucs for 17-13 win
10/22/1990
By RICK GOSSELIN / The Dallas Morning News
TAMPA, Fla. – There's something about the Cowboys that brings out the worst in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Or maybe it's something about the Bucs that brings out the best in the Cowboys.
Whatever it is, the Bucs can't beat the Cowboys. Ever. Not in franchise history.
The eighth meeting between the teams – and second in three weeks – ended Sunday in the eighth victory for the Cowboys. Troy Aikman hit Michael Irvin – remember him? – with a 28-yard touchdown pass with 23 seconds left to give the Cowboys a 17-13 victory.
The Bucs were eight-point favorites – the largest they had been favored in a game in their 15-year history. A sellout Tampa Stadium crowd of 68,315 expected the Bucs to continue construction of their playoff bandwagon. Tampa Bay entered the day in second place in the NFC Central Division at 4-2, a game behind the Chicago Bears.
Cowboys 17, Buccaneers 13
The Cowboys sneaked up on the Bucs and sprung a fourth-quarter, come-from-behind victory on them similar to the 14-10 finish two weeks ago at Texas Stadium. The triumph improved the Cowboys' record to 3-4, tripling last year's victory total and equaling their total for 1988. The same team that last week gained a franchise-low 100 net yards losing at Phoenix returned home from Florida with a record that would – are you seated? – earn one of the three NFC wild-card playoff bids.
"I got that feeling in the huddle that we'd do it," said Aikman, whose 159 yards passing nearly tripled his output of last week. "The guys were all feeling it."
"It was very disappointing to lose, especially to a team that we're supposed to beat," Tampa Bay coach Ray Perkins said. "Dallas is a team we definitely felt like we should have beaten twice this year. But I guess somebody else has their own ideas of what's supposed to happen this year."
That somebody else was Cowboys cornerback Issiac Holt.
The Bucs appeared to be sleepwalking to a victory, leading 10-3 over the punchless Cowboys with less than seven minutes remaining. Then Vinny Testaverde tried to throw a short out-pattern to Danny Peebles.
Holt broke on the ball, snared it in front of Peebles, tightroped the sideline and raced 64 yards for the tying touchdown.
"Ike baited (Testaverde)," Cowboys secondary coach Dave Campo said. "He played off the guy and didn't move an inch. He sat back there and made it look like he was banged up. He was moving real slow. But when the ball was in the air, he took off. He was looking for a play and he found it.
"We've said all along he's a playmaker. He's got that little bit of something in him. When the game is on the line, he's a guy who can make the big play."
The Bucs answered by marching 64 yards in 10 plays, despite losing Testaverde with a toe injury, for the go-ahead field goal by Steve Christie with 1:56 remaining. Testaverde suffered the injury on a hit by end Lester Brinkley and never returned.
The Bucs actually put the ball in the end zone on the ninth play of the possession when Chris Chandler, filling in for Testaverde, hit Willie Drewrey on a slant pattern for what appeared to be a seven-yard touchdown. Cowboys defensive end Jim Jeffcoat even jumped offside on the play.
But Jeffcoat was drawn offside by Tampa Bay left tackle Paul Gruber. The touchdown was nullified, and the Bucs were penalized five yards for illegal procedure.
"It was a good call," Gruber said. "Chris made a hard second count, and I flinched before it."
Tony Tolbert sacked Chandler on the next play, the Cowboys' sixth sack of the game. That forced the Bucs to settle for Christie's 32-yard field goal and a 13-10 lead.
Those three points looked like more than enough against a Cowboys offense that had not scored a touchdown in seven quarters and had managed only 143 yards in the first 58 minutes.
A touchback forced the Cowboys to start from their 20-yard line. On second-and-10, Aikman hit Irvin with an 11-yard pass.
That was Irvin's first regular-season reception in more than a year. Irvin missed the final 10 games of the 1989 season and the first four games of this season as he rehabilitated his knee.
He suited up for the two previous games but did not catch a pass. But the Cowboys showed no reluctance to go to him in the final drive, even though he had dropped two passes.
"I've seen Michael have some drops in his career," said Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson, who also coached Irvin in college. "But I've also seen him make some great plays."
Five downs later, Irvin turned in another of those great plays. After an 18-yard completion to tight end Jay Novacek and a 20-yard scramble by Aikman put the Cowboys at the 28, Irvin scored his first touchdown since Oct. 8, 1989.
He beat an attempted jam by cornerback Rodney Rice at the line and angled away from safety Mark Robinson into the corner of the end zone. Aikman looked right, freezing Robinson, then went left with a bullet to Irvin's chin in the end zone.
"That's what you dream about as a wide receiver – to make the winning catch at the end of the game," Irvin said. "It was a dream game."
Bill Bates iced the victory when he intercepted a deflected Chandler pass, the Cowboys' third interception and fifth takeaway of the game. Holt had the other two interceptions, and safeties Vince Albritton and Ray Horton the two fumbles.
"I don't think they showed enough respect for us," Cowboys defensive end Daniel Stubbs said. "We read the newspaper, too. We hear them talking about how good they are and how terrible we are. They didn't give us any credit. But I think we've got their attention now."
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Damn, you guys are on it. Got a quick story, the Bucs had a linebacker named Broderick Thomas who a week before that game told an Orlando reporter he had no respect for Emmitt Smith. When I read that I couldn't believe he said it so I cut it out and sent it to Joe Brodsky who was our running backs coach at the time (since deceased).
He wrote me back a week after the game thanking me and said that the article was "strategically posted" throughout the locker room.
He wrote me back a week after the game thanking me and said that the article was "strategically posted" throughout the locker room.
