Tampa Bay Buccaneers
TBT: Alstott's Top 10 Moments
Ten highlights from Mike Alstott's career, in no particular order.
Alstott carried the ball nine times for 27 yards and his first career rushing touchdown.
Alstott earns his first of six Pro Bowls.Â
Famous two-yard touchdown run - tries to go right, then to the middle and finally goes left, breaking tackles along the way.
The Bucs' first playoff game in 15 years, also the last game played at old Tampa Stadium. Alstott's 31-yard touchdown run puts the game away in the third quarter and the Bucs win, 20-10.
Bucs score late to make it 35-34. After two Washington penalties on the attempted PAT, Head Coach Jon Gruden decides to send the offense out and go for two. Everyone knows Alstott is getting the ball, and he does, and he barely makes it for the game-winning points.
That week one of the storylines was how coach Jon Gruden wasn't using Alstott in the offense. In this game, Alstott gets 17 carries for 126 yards and two touchdowns. What everyone remembers is a run for about 18 yards in which he bounces off one tackle after another, eventually making contact with 9 of the 11 defenders.
Alstott tries to dive over the pile, doesn't make it, comes back down and lands on his feet, starts left, runs into two more tacklers, twists away from them and ends up with his back to the goal line and then just backs his way into the end zone over LB Jeff Brady.
Alstott scores his 38th career rushing touchdown, passing James Wilder for No. 1 on the Bucs' all-time list.
Alstott is elected into the Buccaneers' Ring of Honor.
Alstott scores the first touchdown in Super Bowl XXXVII.
