For the end of Week Five of the 2003 NFL season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hosted the Indianapolis Colts. The Bucs, under head coach Jon Gruden, were fresh off their Superbowl championship but had begun to struggle as the 2003 season went on. The Indianapolis Colts, meanwhile, had become a consistent winner under former Bucs coach Tony Dungy, who was making his first trip to Tampa since being released after the 2001 season. The Colts were rapidly becoming famous in the NFL for their offense, the most explosive seen in the league in many years, but as the game went on Indy's high-octane offense was stymied by Tampa Bay's superb defense, and in the final minutes of the fourth quarter the Bucs led Indy 35-14, a deficit considered impossible to overcome - until the most dramatic finish seen by Monday Night Football in many years unfolded.
—Michael Daly