Publisher's Synopsis
Book begins with the Chiefs first championship & rolls right to Super Bowl LV. This book is written for those of us who love the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (TBB) and their great free home state of Florida. Those who dislike the Bucs for their own reasons, will also want this book, so they can try to get a leg up on the facts missing from the bookshelves of those TBB fans who do not have this book. The book first tells the story about the Bucs as the newest team in the National Football League from 1976 to Super Bowl LV. The main focus of this book is Bucs Championships and there are more games than most think. . We spend the time to tell the stories of all the Bucs championship games and the playoff games associated with winning championships. Most real NFL fans know that The Buccaneers, (often shortened to The Bucs, were established in 1976, and they posted what pundits have called for the ages an ignoble 0-14 record in their first season in the NFL. The team lost 26 games before it posted its first win. The NFL wasn't sure what to do with them but after playing their first season in the American Football Conference (AFC) named after the old AFL, the Bucs moved to their current Conference (NFC) in 1977. Life did not change to greatness for TBB for a few more years. Eventually all of the activity in college football built-up in the 1920's to the beginning of the National Football League and of course the American Football League (AFL) in 1960. Another league expansion brought in the Buccaneers in 1976. Hugh Culverhouse, a successful Florida Tax Lawyer and broker gained the franchise. He hired USC's successful coach, John McKay as the first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he held the reins until 1984. McKay got his team to the playoffs a number of times after a slow start. Those great games are retold in this book.John McKay brought the team to its first win v the New Orleans Saints. And two years later they sported a 10-6 record and actually won their division and played in their first major championship game in 1979. You will learn that McKay was a great choice, He had achieved major success at the University of California with four national championships in his 16 years there. Coach McKay is responsible for orchestrating the building process that led to the Buccaneers stunning early success.This book captures the great games, championship seasons, and almost championship in Buccaneers Football and to tell a good story, we briefly look at each of the 45 seasons to help the reader roll from one championship to another without wondering what year it happened in. This Bucs first book takes the reader through short stories about their 12 coaches and about 45 seasons worth of great football (708 games with 278 great wins. The Bucs picked up their first NFL Championship (Super Bowl) with John Gruden and won Super Bowl XXXVII with a convincing 48-21 win. Of course we all know about 2020's Championship and Super Bowl victory as the Bucs have come of age with Tom Brady as their new MVP. Even before then, the chiefs were winning post season games. That is what this book is about. And, so now, I dare you to pick up this book for, if you are a Bucs fan, and you will never put it down again. You cannot ever get enough of the Bucs greatness, but we do provide as many stories together in one spot as we can in this can't miss book.
