He was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week after the 21-16 win against the Los Angeles Rams, completing 17-of-38 passes for 285 yards and 3 touchdowns, including the 41-yard game winner to wide receiver Hassan Jones with less than a minute to play.
(meta data) TITLE: Record for Payton As Bears Win, 20-3 - The New York Times (meta data) AUTHOR: AP 4 captures 18 Jan 2014 - 10 Sep 2018 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved. Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors. The goal is to fix all broken links on the web. Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. Collection: Wikipedia Near Real Time (from IRC) This is a collection of web page captures from links added to, or changed on, Wikipedia pages. The idea is to bring a reliability to Wikipedia outlinks so that if the pages referenced by Wikipedia articles are changed, or go away, a reader can permanently find what was originally referred to. This is part of the Internet Archive's attempt to rid the web of broken links. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20180910164806/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/21/sports/record-for-payton-as-bears-win-20-3.html NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 or earlier. Please upgrade your browser. LEARN MORE » ## The New York Times ###### Archives|Record for Payton As Bears Win, 20-3 ### Archives| 1987 # Record for Payton As Bears Win, 20-3 ##### View page in TimesMachine , Page 00006 The New York Times Archives Walter Payton scored two touchdowns today, setting a record in the process, to lead the Chicago Bears to a 20-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Payton rushed for one touchdown and caught a 9-yard pass for another. The first score, 1-yard dive gave the 33-year-old veteran a record 107th rushing touchdown, breaking a tie with Jim Brown. But Payton, the league's career rushing leader, gained only 24 yards in 15 carries. Payton's running mate, 23-year-old Neal Anderson, broke a 27-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, while gaining 115 yards in 16 attempts to lead a sputtering Bears offense guilty of two fumbles and two interceptions. The Bears clinched it when Mike Tomczak hit Payton with the 9-yard touchdown pass with 3:20 left in the game after Tomczak had connected on a 46-yard pass to Willie Gault. The Bears are 2-0 and Tampa Bay dropped to 1-1. Falcons 21, Redskins 20 ATLANTA (AP) - Scott Campbell passed for two touchdowns in his first Atlanta start and Gerald Riggs scored on a 4-yard run with 6:47 remaining as Falcons scored an upset. The margin came as a result of a botched extra-point attempt after the Redskins' second touchdown. A bouncing snap by Jeff Bostic couldn't be handled by his holder, Eric Yarber. Campbell, elevated to the starting spot after David Archer failed to generate any offense in a 48-10 loss at Tampa Bay last week, completed 17 of 35 passes for 271 yards. Both teams now have 1-1 records. Eagles 27, Saints 17 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Randall Cunningham threw two touchdown passes and the defense intercepted three passes, made three sacks and recovered two fumbles as Philadelphia rallied for the victory. The Eagles trailed by 10-0 after the first period. But a 30-yard field goal by Paul McFadden and Cunningham's 19-yard touchdown pass to Mike Quick and 25-yard pass to Kenny Jackson triggered the team. The Saints were held to 32 yards on the ground as they slipped to 1-1. The Eagles held hard-running Rueben Mayes 20 yards on 13 carries. 49ers 27, Bengals 26 CINCINNATI (AP) - Jerry Rice caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Joe Montana with no time remaining to give San Francisco (1-1) a stunning victory. Rice outjumped a rookie cornerback, Eric Thomas, in the end zone to make his dramatic game-winning catch. A tactical error by the Bengals (1-1) gave Montana the chance for his game-winning third touchdown pass. The Bengals were protecting a 26-20 lead and had the ball with 54 seconds to play at their own 45-yard line. Boomer Esiason, the quarterback, ran three times, losing 10 yards as the 49ers used their timeouts. The Bengals then took a delay penalty with 6 seconds left, putting the ball on the 30, and choose to run on fourth down. James Brooks had a 5-yard loss on the play, stopping the clock on the exchange. That left Montana two seconds to work his magic. He lofted the ball to Rice, who went up and cleanly caught it in front of Thomas. The rookie cornerback also had been burned twice for touchdown passes in the game. Raiders 27, Lions 7 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rusty Hilger passed for 234 yards and one touchdown and Marcus Allen rushed for 79 yards and another score as the Los Angeles Raiders overcame a 7-6 halftime deficit to win. The outcome left the Raiders with a 2-0 record while the Lions fell to 0-2. Hilger, who completed 20 of his 39 passes, put the Raiders ahead for good with a 14-yard scoring pass to Dokie Williams at 2:14 of the third quarter. The touchdown came shortly after Williams recovered Karl Bernard's fumble of the second-half kickoff at the Detroit 23-yard line. Chargers 28 Cardinals 24 SAN DIEGO (AP) - Lionel James returned a punt 81 yards for a touchdown and ran 7 yards for another score for San Diego. San Diego grabbed a 28-0 halftime lead, converting two St. Louis turnovers into 14 points, with Chargers linebacker Billy Ray Smith producing an interception and a fumble recovery. But the St. Louis quarterback, Neil Lomax, who completed 32 of 61 passes for 457 yards and three touchdowns, rallied his team to all of its points in the second half. Lomax's 17-yard touchdown pass to Stump Mitchell with 1:48 remaining completed a 10-play, 80-yard drive and was the fourth straight scoring drive for St. Louis. Lomax had one more chance and took the Cardinals to the Chargers 5. He then threw three incompletions and, on fourth down, a wide-open Earl Ferrell dropped a pass at the goal line. The victory gave the Chargers a 1-1 record. St. Louis fell to 1-1. Vikings 21, Rams 16 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Wade Wilson's third touchdown pass of the game, a 41-yard bomb to Hassan Jones with 30 seconds remaining, gave Minnesota a dramatic victory. Wilson, the long-time backup who is starting place of the injured Tommy Kramer, drove the Vikings 80 yards to the winning score. Down to their last gasp with a fourth-and-16 situation at their own 25 with 1:10 remaining, Minnesota stayed alive when Wilson connected with Jones for a 20-yard gain and a first down. Moments later, Jones got behind a Los Angeles cornerback, LeRoy Irvin, and hauled in the winning pass at the Rams goal line. Wilson, who completed 17 of 38 throws for 285 yards, had thrown touchdown passes of 8 yards to Carl Hilton and 46 yards to Anthony Carter in the opening half, was frustrated by the Rams in the second half until the closing minutes of the game. The Vikings improved their record to 2-0, while the Rams dropped to 0-2 as their offense sputtered and stalled again. Go to Home Page » ## Site IndexThe New York Times
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Wade Wilson (American football)
Professional career.:Minnesota Vikings.
His best game was the 27-24 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he completed 24-of-36 passes for 236 yards, one touchdown and 2 interceptions. 
 In 1985, he was diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus type 1. He appeared in 4 games, with his only start coming in place of an injured Kramer against the Philadelphia Eagles, where he led the team to one of the greatest comebacks in franchise history. The Eagles held a 23-0 advantage with 8:23 minutes to play. Wilson directed 4 scoring drives, that included 3 touchdown passes to achieve a 28-23 victory, tallying 13-of-27 completions for 187 yards and 3 touchdowns. 
 In 1986, he appeared in 9 games, that included 3 starts in place of an injured Kramer. He was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week in the season finale 33-17 win against the New Orleans Saints, after replacing an injured Kramer and having the best game of his career at the time, completing 24-of-39 passes for 361 yards and 3 touchdowns. He was mostly the backup quarterback until 1987, when Kramer started 5 games to Wilson's 7 contests, including the playoffs.