The Washington Commanders secured a thrilling playoff victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, ending a lengthy playoff win drought.
With the score tied at 20, the Commanders regained possession with 4:41 remaining in the game and a chance to win. Quarterback Zane Gonzalez connected on a 37-yard field goal as time expired to give the Commanders a dramatic victory over the Buccaneers . The Commanders ' victory marks the franchise's first playoff win since the 2005 NFC wild-card game. It snaps the NFL's third-longest active playoff-win drought, according to ESPN Research.
Washington celebrated the occasion with a troll aimed at Tampa Bay's namesake. The Commanders posted a clip from the 2004 film 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,' of Vince Vaughn's character, Peter La Fleur, confronting Steve 'the Pirate' Cowan, a member of the Average Joe's. Vaughn pushes Cowan against the wall and tells him: 'You are not a pirate.' Washington posted its logo on Vaughn, while Tampa Bay's logo was on Cowan
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