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The Yucks, the creamsicle years, Tampa 2, Super Bowl XXXVII, the Brady years: the stories that explain why this fanbase is the way it is.
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Buccaneers history: Bengals shut out the 1976 Bucs 21-0 to make it 0-5
On October 10, 1976, the Bengals beat the expansion Buccaneers 21-0 at Riverfront Stadium, Tampa Bay's third shutout loss in five games.
Buccaneers history: Chargers shut out Tampa Bay 23-0 in their first home game
On September 19, 1976, the San Diego Chargers shut out the expansion Buccaneers 23-0 in Tampa Bay's first ever home game, at Tampa Stadium.
Orange and pewter against the stripes, a Bucs-Bengals history
Ahead of Sunday's opener at Cincinnati, the Bucs and Bengals' 7-6 series has blowouts, a wild shootout and Brady's last meeting with Joe Burrow.
Fifty years ago this week: the Buccaneers' first ever game
On September 12, 1976, the expansion Buccaneers played their first regular season game and lost 20-0 to the Houston Oilers in the Astrodome.
The Yucks: 0-26 and the birth of a franchise
An expansion team lost 26 straight games and became a national punchline. Here is how that losing streak still shapes what it means to be a Bucs fan.
The creamsicle years, 1976 to 1996: why fans still love the orange
For two decades the Buccaneers wore orange and lost constantly. Two decades later fans begged for those uniforms back. Here is the story of the creamsicle era.
Tom Brady in Tampa: the years that rewrote the record book
Three seasons, one Super Bowl won at home, a franchise-record 13 wins and an ending nobody in Tampa wanted to see coming quite the way it did.
From Bucco Bruce to the flag: the 1997 rebrand that changed everything
In one Tampa afternoon, the Buccaneers buried a cartoon pirate that had watched two decades of losing and put a skull and swords on the helmet instead.
Tampa 2: the defense that conquered the league, explained
A four-man rush, two deep safeties and one linebacker running backward. Here is how a modest zone coverage became the most copied defense in the NFL.
Super Bowl XXXVII, play by play, more than two decades later
How a $8 million trade for a coach, a defense built over a decade and one bad night for Rich Gannon turned into the most lopsided Super Bowl a Buccaneers team ever played.