Streaks Stop Here, but Not the Bucs, 27-23 : NFC: Tampa Bay finally wins on the road, and Detroit loses at home. Testaverde throws game-winning touchdown pass with 49 seconds left.

The Detroit Lions had a 11-game winning streak in the Silverdome, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a 15-game losing streak on the road.

But both streaks came to an end Sunday, with the Buccaneers winning a wild one, 27-23, as Vinny Testaverde ended a fourth-quarter flurry by passing 14 yards for a touchdown to Ron Hall with 49 seconds left.

“You don’t have a check big enough to pay for the emotions in this locker room right now,” said an emotional Sam Wyche, the Bucs’ coach. “This will make for one rambunctious trip home. I’ll have to talk to them on how to behave.

“It was a great game between two good football teams. It’s a shame somebody has to lose that kind of game. We get a chance to beat on our chests for one more week.”

Detroit (1-3) took a 16-10 lead into the fourth quarter, but the Lions have led in the fourth quarter of all three of their defeats.

“It’s happened in three games now,” Coach Wayne Fontes said. “I have to look back at our calls and see what the hell is happening.

“I don’t understand why it is happening. We blitzed today. We played zone. We played man coverage. We didn’t play prevent at all. We mixed it up. And they still drove on us.”

The Buccaneers (3-1) cut it to 16-13 on Ken Willis’ second field goal, a 31-yarder with 8:24 remaining.

On the fourth snap of Detroit’s next series, Barry Sanders fumbled a handoff from Rodney Peete. The ball was picked up by rookie defensive tackle Santana Dotson, who broke free from a large cluster of players and lumbered 42 yards for a touchdown that put the Bucs ahead, 20-16.

“Somebody needed to come up with a big play,” said Dotson, a fifth-round draft pick out of Baylor who led the NFL with 5 1/2 sacks going into the game, and picked up more more.

Mel Gray returned the ensuing kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown, putting the Lions back on top, 23-20. It was the first time Detroit had returned a kickoff for a score since Alvin Hall’s 96-yarder at Green Bay in 1982.

But with Testaverde completing five of six passes, including two on third down, the Buccaneers put together a 14-play, 80-yard drive.

It was first and 10 at the Lion 14 when the Detroit defense bit on Testaverde’s play-action fake to Gary Anderson, who was running right. That left Hall wide open in the left flat. Testaverde floated the ball to Hall for the score.

Peete still had time to complete three passes for 67 yards, which left the Lions with a first-and-10 at the Buccaneers’ 15. But by then the Buccaneers were out of time outs and only 10 seconds remained.

On the last snap of the game, Peete tossed a pass to Brett Perriman, who was trying to get out of bounds on the Tampa Bay side of the field when he was tackled at the three by Milton Mack.

Peete, who completed 20 of 31 passes for 323 yards, hooked up with Jeff Campbell on a 78-yard touchdown pass play in the third quarter, and Jason Hanson kicked field goals of 42, 35 and 36 yards for Detroit.

Testaverde, who hadn’t had a pass intercepted all season, had three intercepted by the Lions. But he still completed 17 of 30 for 248 yards.