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Article #185: Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tidbits

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Those who live in the Miami area may - 1978, several teams have gone 1-15, but
worried that they will be shunned from no one has gone 0-16. During the 1982
restaurants and country clubs - claim to season, which was shortened by a strike,
be Dolphins fans, growing fins and living the Baltimore Colts had no victories, but
underwater in their spare time. But they had one tie to accompany their eight
Miami, like any other city in a state losses.
with multiple football teams, likely has He could go all the way…but he won't:
its fair share of Tampa Bay fans. Perhaps The Buccaneers are the only NFL team that
these folks once lived in Tampa Bay and has never scored a touchdown on a kickoff
moved to Miami. Perhaps they grew up return during a regular season game, a
watching Tampa Bay or know someone who feat that has, up till the start of the
played for them. Perhaps, they (gasp!) 2006 season, been done over 1700 times by
would just rather be a Buccaneer than a other teams. The Bucs have, however,
Dolphin. For you Tampa Bay fans lingering scored five touchdowns on kickoff returns
in the city of Miami, this article is one during preseason games.
you'll likely want to pirate. A Pirate's Curse: No team that has lost
Every NFL team has its fair share of a regular season game to Tampa Bay has
history and trivia. But, the Tampa Bay ever won the Super Bowl. This, because of
Buccaneers possess some of the most its years in existence, is known as The
interesting trivia around. Those who Tampa Bay Curse and haunts anyone who
disagree will have to walk the plank. falls to the Bucs before season's end.
Kings of the South: Tampa Bay is the only The Warm Weather Factor: Until the final
team in the NFC South to prevail as Super regular season game of 2002, in which
Bowl Champions. Though Atlanta and Tampa Bay defeated the Chicago Bears in
Carolina have reached the Super Bowl, Chicago, the Buccaneers had never won a
they have yet to be victorious. New game where the temperature at kickoff was
Orleans, on the other end of the less than 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Before
spectrum, is one of a handful of teams to beating the Bears, the Bucs had lost the
have never made it to the championship. twenty previous games played in cold
The Rich Get Richer: The owner of the weather.
Buccaneers, Malcolm Glazer, also owns the Keeping it Real: Not only did the Bucs
Manchester United, an England soccer not do well in cold weather, but they
team. The Manchester United is considered also didn't do well playing on artificial
the richest sports organization in the grass. They once lost 27 games in a row
entire world. played on artificial turf in outdoor
Oops: The 1976 Buccaneers are the only stadiums. This losing streak spanned 15
team in modern day NFL history to lose years, from the 1980 season to the 1995
every single game in a season. Since the season.
NFL went to a sixteen game season, in






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