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Hugh Culverhouse: A Reign of Error 

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When you think of some of the worst owners in NFL history, the usual suspects tend to pile up: George Preston Marshall, Dan Snyder, Mike Brown, Bob Irsay, Art Modell, and a few others. In most cases, however, there tends to be a notoriously awful owner that tends to slip through the cracks: This man's name is Hugh Culverhouse, and he was the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1976-1994. Throughout his control, the Bucs were consistently one of the worst teams in football, with only a blip of success due to things unrelated to his efforts.
Every move he made was for the sake of the bottom line, yet he took pride in his love of controlling both his football team and the league itself. He combined the worst aspects of sports ownership, and this description only scratches the surface of it. This video will show you the rest, in all of its horrific glory.
There are reasons why I consider him the worst owner in NFL history.

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@pridelander06
@pridelander06 2 года назад
As much as I truly love your "Current events" series like Sportsball and Haters' Guides, I really love learning about history of sports franchises/owners, even when the particular subject is more a cautionary tale.
@NWOWCW4Life1
@NWOWCW4Life1 2 года назад
Same here.
@lucashenderson2775
@lucashenderson2775 2 года назад
Agreed. Tree's been on a roll with these lately between this one about Hugh Culverhouse and the one about Marge Schott. His look at the Oilers' downfall in Houston and move to Tennessee where they became the Titans was amazing as well.
@jeffmalinoff2836
@jeffmalinoff2836 2 года назад
They are my favorite
@jpragata017
@jpragata017 2 года назад
Same
@heribertoruizjr.5296
@heribertoruizjr.5296 2 года назад
True especially the oilers story
@tannerplummer1996
@tannerplummer1996 2 года назад
So let me get this straight. The Bucs had Doug Williams, Steve Young, Chris Chandler, and Vinny Testeverde?! And they f****d all four of them up?! And all four of them had good NFL careers after they left Tampa?! Wow that's brutal!!!!
@snakeguy8646
@snakeguy8646 2 года назад
Unironically Brady is our Franchises best QB, goes to show just how shit we were at getting an ACTUAL QB
@drinfernodds
@drinfernodds 2 года назад
Yup, they could make chicken shit out of chicken salad with the best of them.
@iamhungey12345
@iamhungey12345 2 года назад
@@snakeguy8646 Or developing them. You know Tampa Bay was bad back in the days when Vinny actually improved with the freaking Jets where their QB position have been cursed for decades! (though he had stops with couple of other teams as well and had couple of good seasons)
@Dystopia1111
@Dystopia1111 2 года назад
Can't forget the legend that was Steve DeBerg.
@nijobkk2322
@nijobkk2322 2 года назад
Yep 💀
@Jwpolk2
@Jwpolk2 2 года назад
Hugh's son made a big donation to our law school on the condition that we rename it to the Culverhouse School of Law. He then proceeded to make an absolute fool of himself by trying to make admissions decisions, trying to get our dean replaced, and making comments about how he was going to "fix" the school (which was already ranked in the top 15% in the country). The school ended up giving the money back and literally scraping his name off the front of the building. He gets booed at Bama games now.
@Matty_Symz
@Matty_Symz 2 года назад
As a current Alabama student, the thing that made the school give Hugh Jr. his money back was the fact he was openly advocating for prospective students to not attend UA because of the restrictive abortion bill that the State of Alabama passed in 2019. Idk what Hugh Jr. thought the University could even do about that law since UA has no control over what bills Alabama's state government can pass, but I'm so glad the University cut ties with this overbearing, egotistical narcissist because he tried to make the University about him and his late father. No University wants to deal with a donor who is actively trying to push prospective students AWAY from them and not towards them.
@Jwpolk2
@Jwpolk2 2 года назад
@Matty Symz yes, I remember that being the deciding factor after a series of wild behaviors. He openly expressed his disdain for the Dean and tried to force his voice to be heard in admissions decisions - insisting that the small law class be expanded at the potential cost of the relatively high ranking the law school had achieved. I was at the first game he got booed by the law school student section prior to the return of the money.
@Matty_Symz
@Matty_Symz 2 года назад
@@Jwpolk2 If there were Lolcow videos for University Boosters, he would definitely be one of them. I think you could do an entire series on them because whether it just be trying to meddle in Law School admissions like Hugh Jr. did or going to great lengths as to try and influence the Athletic Departments over positions like Head Coaches and Starting Players (Think Texas and Auburn) on a roster, there are definitely some interesting characters that could be analyzed.
@lewis9702
@lewis9702 2 года назад
The Apple doesn't fall far from the Tree.
@RarelyEvenn
@RarelyEvenn 2 года назад
As a 3rd generation Bucs fan, I have heard stories. The Bucs were automatically going to be bad, but having him as an owner set us way back. 0-26. A mark I'm very proud of.
@someperson3883
@someperson3883 2 года назад
Can’t wait to sweep y’all again
@greenfroppy212
@greenfroppy212 2 года назад
@@someperson3883 Can’t wait to not see you guys in the playoffs yet again lmao. Beating the Bucs is like your Super Bowl
@RarelyEvenn
@RarelyEvenn 2 года назад
@@someperson3883 The first time you swept us, we beat you in the playoffs. Second time, you didn't even make the playoffs. Saints fans value regular season victories over winning titles.
@someperson3883
@someperson3883 2 года назад
@@greenfroppy212 We will beat y’all but we have a Super Bowl
@someperson3883
@someperson3883 2 года назад
@@RarelyEvenn I’ll give you that y’all beat us in the playoffs in 2020. We only missed last year because of injuries. We have a Super Bowl so beating the Bucs twice isn’t the biggest accomplishment ever it is one thing we have done
@Lny_Forner
@Lny_Forner 2 года назад
I'm liking this trend of Tree revealing absolute shittiness on the part of the big four's owners. I could totally get behind this as a separate series to lolcow videos
@jclips2098
@jclips2098 2 года назад
Watching these makes me realize how batshit insane some people are compared to me. Makes me feel a lot better about myself.
@declanssportsdesk
@declanssportsdesk 2 года назад
I hope that comes to fruition.
@doctorvladandhisbluejaysd2802
@doctorvladandhisbluejaysd2802 2 года назад
yeah that would be awesome, a very good owner to make a video on is ted stepien
@AubreyChase7
@AubreyChase7 2 года назад
A video on Fred Wilpon is long overdue
@tehbeernerd
@tehbeernerd 2 года назад
Dollar Bill Wirtz, Eugene Melnyk, Stan Kroenke, Donald Sterling, James Dolan, Peter Angelos, Charles Wang… the possibilities are endless. (The Leafs Half Century of Failure video is a de facto Harold Ballard video imo)
@coldsnap5742
@coldsnap5742 2 года назад
Here's a weird fact for you: Their very first draft, they were pushed by everyone to take a QB with their first overall pick. Instead, they took Lee Roy Selmon, who was derided at the time, but would become an all-time-great defender and Hall-of-Famer. None of the QBs in that year's draft would go on to make even a single Pro Bowl. Despite starting 0-26, they somehow still made the correct decision.
@bagofgroceries
@bagofgroceries 2 года назад
John McKay had an eye for talent, what can we say?
@reedermh
@reedermh 2 года назад
Enough to have a freeway named after him, no less.
@brianbaker2884
@brianbaker2884 2 года назад
I met Selmon, before he passed. Sweet guy
@chuckeecheeze4649
@chuckeecheeze4649 2 года назад
It's funny that the first team to lose to the Bucs, ever, has swept them 2-0 in both of their championship seasons. Hell, the Saints still haven't lost to Brady's Bucs ............................... in the regular season. Didn't think I was gonna let that go did ya?
@TheLolapuff
@TheLolapuff 2 года назад
Same. Great person.
@berr21able
@berr21able 2 года назад
The sad thing about those early Buccs was that they had Hall of Fame defensive lineman Lee Roy Salmon for all of his career. He even played on the 0-14 team. But they never built around him, and effectively wasted his talents.
@erics.czernecki7333
@erics.czernecki7333 2 года назад
He was actually selected first overall in their inaugural draft. Makes it a bit sadder.
@maxsmith5483
@maxsmith5483 2 года назад
He had a bomb ass chain of restaurants at least. Till they ruined it after his death.
@ynsimha7663
@ynsimha7663 2 года назад
@Fries Salmon of course
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
@@maxsmith5483 I ate at 2 of his restaurants (Brandon and near Ray Jay). That was some tasty food!
@thee-wastegamer4044
@thee-wastegamer4044 2 года назад
He's immortalized here, we named our main expressway after him! Edit: also it's spelled Selmon, you can tell when someone is new in town when they say they took the "Salmon" lol
@SteeleZack
@SteeleZack 2 года назад
I have been reading Jeff Pearlman's "Football for a Buck", at which mentions Doug William's time in the USFL after his departure from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the mid-80's. Apparently Williams didn't hold back when talking to the media and referring to Hugh Culverhouse as the perfect example of a "cheap-ass racist asshole". Upon reading that, I both knew that he would be a topic for a video.
@bigbearkat2010
@bigbearkat2010 2 года назад
Which if you think about it is really something. This dude has spent years in Dan Snyders front office and still isn't the worst boss he's ever had
@michealkeck2877
@michealkeck2877 2 года назад
Really good book. I've listened to the audiobook a few times
@edalder2000
@edalder2000 2 года назад
That book is outstanding.
@SteeleZack
@SteeleZack 2 года назад
@@bigbearkat2010 In the case of Doug Williams, Snyder will allow his GMs to spend large amounts of money on players though if he wants to (not on stadium infrastructure and maintence though lol), the 2000 off-season is an example of this. Culverhouse was a miser who flat out refused to and would low-ball players all of the time. There is also the racist overtone (hopefully using the correct term here lol) of making him the lowest paid starting QB during a era where a black starting QB was still not the norm (he was drafted in 1978). Also the dick-head move of trying to sell him undeveloped real-estate as an incentive rather than monetary incentive (money) like a normal person .
@SteeleZack
@SteeleZack 2 года назад
@@edalder2000 Turns out Donald Trump was not the only con artist and or terrible owner that obtained ownership of a USFL team lol
@SSobotkaJr
@SSobotkaJr 2 года назад
As a kid, back when the Seahawks and Buccaneers were being formed, I was only happy to finally have a pro-team to cheer for. I was a bit clueless to the fact the Bucs were losing constantly, only until a classmate -- who was a Raiders fan -- point it out. This lead me into asking my Dad why we still supported the Bucs? If they are so terrible, what was even the point? Pop told me this: "These guys aren't playing so good now, but that will change. Until then, you need to show support for them, to show the players that there are people in this community that want them here, want them to keep playing and hopefully one year, they will have a winning season. The truth is, it takes being there for a team in the good times AND the bad times, to show them just how much we appreciate them being here.". The hallmark of a TRUE fan is sticking with your team, win or loss, no matter what. Pop taught me that with loyalty, eventually comes your reward of better times. That happened in 2002 with our first win in SB 37, and then years later in 2020, with SB 55 -- with the added bonus of us being the 1st team in the Modern NFL that played in the Super Bowl in our own home stadium. Yes, Culverhouse was an anathema to the team, but after he passed, the team did improve. The current ownership and GM learned not to duplicate Hugh's mistakes. But, even with the bad early years, Pop -- who passed away in 1994 -- taught me the proper depth of loyalty will always be rewarded. That is why I am still a Buccaneers fan to this day.
@heatherphillips5983
@heatherphillips5983 2 года назад
I never watched the BUCS, until my husband and I moved to Tampa Bay when his father's construction company got the contract for a two year deal on a bunch of luxury condominiums , to build them. The guy that owned the land it was being built on, had his own luxury suite in the stadium, and we'd go to the home games. I've been a fan every since, even though Dallas is my number one team.
@austinemms9772
@austinemms9772 2 года назад
Say what you will about how he runs the Bengals but it comes to cheap owners, Hugh Culverhouse makes Mike Brown look like George Steinbrenner.
@mach6893
@mach6893 2 года назад
Mike Brown collected more playoff wins in 1 year than Hustler Hugh did in 18 years.
@Bigunk-hc2ri
@Bigunk-hc2ri 2 года назад
As a bengals fan I wouldn’t go that far
@nobody-wk6ej
@nobody-wk6ej 2 года назад
So naturally, since you've done Harold Ballard and Marge Schott does this mean Donald Sterling is coming up next? The Unholy Trinity must be completed.
@rangav248
@rangav248 2 года назад
I assume he is waiting for the eventual legacy of failure video on the LA Clippers
@bigbearkat2010
@bigbearkat2010 2 года назад
Is there anything he could add the Secret Base video didn't cover? I only know the broad strokes about the guy.
@ivaneurope
@ivaneurope 2 года назад
@@rangav248 He waits til when Kawhi and Paul George leave this franchise.
@reedermh
@reedermh 2 года назад
He hasn't done Ballard yet. Only Schott and Culverhouse.
@bigbearkat2010
@bigbearkat2010 2 года назад
@@reedermh he kind of has though, half of his Maple Leafs video was about how much of a douchenozzle Ballard was
@actuallynotsteve
@actuallynotsteve 2 года назад
The "team execution? I'm in favor of it" quote is my favorite coach quote of all time
@IlGreven
@IlGreven 2 года назад
You could make an argument that Hugh Culverhouse was responsible for many player deaths from stopping them from having medical insurance when out of the league (or even have access to their medical records) as a negotiating tactic that caused the 1980's strikes. Among them, of course, was the sad saga of Doug Kotar as told by Keith Olbermann on his ESPN show a few years ago.
@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly
@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly 2 года назад
Hugh Culverhouse, Harold Ballard, Marge Schott, and Ted Stepien are the Mount Rushmore of Worst Sports Owners ever.
@thepassingstatic6268
@thepassingstatic6268 2 года назад
Dan Snyder has to be up there. He has to, hes done so much (and so little simultaneously) in this regard
@iexist_15
@iexist_15 2 года назад
What about Donald Sterling?
@tehbeernerd
@tehbeernerd 2 года назад
I had to look up Stepien. He sounded terrible but Donald Sterling was worse
@tehbeernerd
@tehbeernerd 2 года назад
Thing is, Donald Sterling did move the Clippers- from San Diego to Los Angeles, against the NBA’s explicit wishes. The league was so pissed off that they nearly contracted the Clippers just so they could get Sterling off their hands.
@Eibarwoman
@Eibarwoman 2 года назад
William Clay Ford Sr., 53 years of futility and wasting multiple generational talents even producing Hugh Culverhouse like losing streaks including the legendary 0-16 season. While the stadiums he encouraged construction of were great, the show you got to watch rarely made the playoffs let alone win a game there.
@anthonywatson6070
@anthonywatson6070 2 года назад
As a Bucs fan who lived through the "lost decade", spanning the post Gruden years to the arrival of Brady, we have come a long way from the depths of football hell to Valhalla
@booneshow1863
@booneshow1863 2 года назад
I hated Greg schiano the most.
@Shawn6751
@Shawn6751 2 года назад
You guys will be heading back to football hades soon.
@booneshow1863
@booneshow1863 2 года назад
@@Shawn6751 yeah. Probably in two years.
@Tikitackfouls
@Tikitackfouls 2 года назад
Y'all got godell trying to help y'all
@youknowimright.3137
@youknowimright.3137 2 года назад
@@booneshow1863 Our 2013 team on paper were great ... he destroyed that team right out the gate.
@Shay_Mendez
@Shay_Mendez 2 года назад
As a Raiders fan, I have to thank Culverhouse for being so goddamn inept and cheaper than the poorest miser. Thank you SOOOOOO much for pissing Bo off so bad that he played for the Royals so we could draft him!
@r3tr0actiongamer24
@r3tr0actiongamer24 2 года назад
Drafted by the Raaaaaaiders in the 7th round which is astounding in itself
@mikepastor.k6233
@mikepastor.k6233 2 года назад
It's not like he had a HoF career with you. What, one good season..
@r3tr0actiongamer24
@r3tr0actiongamer24 Год назад
@@mikepastor.k6233 You do realize he played with the raiders PART TIME and had very impressive stats and averaged 5.4 yards a carry. If didn’t get that career ending injury he would have been a HOF’er in two sports. Please tell me you can’t be this dumb right?
@emperorburton
@emperorburton 11 месяцев назад
We got our vengeance in 2002. The Raiders haven’t been relevant since.
@HeyitsCamden
@HeyitsCamden 2 года назад
Yeah being a Bucs fan hasn't been easy, whether it's the Culverhouse origin days, the post-superbowl drought, the MRSA days...but thankfully the past couple of years have helped a bit.
@booneshow1863
@booneshow1863 2 года назад
Yeah. I remember that I really started paying attention in 2008. The year after gruden left. Over a decade of mediocrity (except 2010) and then one day boom, superbowl.
@Tikitackfouls
@Tikitackfouls 2 года назад
@@booneshow1863 there were flashes on offense before Brady with Fitz
@nicholasselke5214
@nicholasselke5214 2 года назад
Don’t forget Jameis. Well, except for the turnovers
@DeosPraetorian
@DeosPraetorian 2 года назад
Yeah but at least you have two rings My team doesn't have any
@DeosPraetorian
@DeosPraetorian 2 года назад
@@booneshow1863 I mean to be fair that's basically how both your super bowl's wins happened. The team sucked and then boom a super bowl and then it sucked and then another super bowl
@partybear2579
@partybear2579 2 года назад
As a lifelong Bucs fan…you’re 100% on the money
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
Another lifelong Bucs fan here. Most of my childhood took place after Culverhouse lowballed Doug Williams and I endured so much losing. I don't know how I remained a fan through all that.
@someperson3883
@someperson3883 2 года назад
He gave the nickname Succaneers to the bucs
@youknowimright.3137
@youknowimright.3137 2 года назад
@@marcus813 Facts.
@youknowimright.3137
@youknowimright.3137 2 года назад
@@someperson3883 Facts.
@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly
@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly 2 года назад
Imagine turning down Bill Walsh because you were too cheap…
@someperson3883
@someperson3883 2 года назад
That’s how they became the Succaneers
@thepubknight6144
@thepubknight6144 2 года назад
@@someperson3883 before the browns, jags and lions there was the Bucs
@someperson3883
@someperson3883 2 года назад
@@thepubknight6144 Well the lions still sucked
@BTLAGS
@BTLAGS 2 года назад
Bill walsh dodged a Bullet and we would not be talking about walsh if he went to the Bucaneers Walsh to the 49ers worked because the owner wasn't afraid to spend money as long as the team won and walsh could surround himself with talent players and coaches to adhere to the system. Culverhouse just ruined people no matter what he did the bucaneers were a cemetary of NFL careers to end or come to an end.
@IncredibleFulk1
@IncredibleFulk1 Год назад
@@BTLAGS Funny how the roles are reversed now. The 49ers are freaking cheap while the Bucs go a spend. God I hate my team the 49ers 😭
@AnimatedIdiotGuide
@AnimatedIdiotGuide 2 года назад
I got to say I approve of this new direction that Tree is going in. He’s gone from a shit poster to a sort of historian. I don’t know if it’ll bring in the views like the old stuff but I approve of this. And I intend to stick around.
@chadghostall5648
@chadghostall5648 2 года назад
hes just reading an article
@Seanpatf66
@Seanpatf66 2 года назад
He actually wants to cover relevant items, unlike a certain gator jaguar fan.
@JoeVideoed
@JoeVideoed 2 года назад
@@Seanpatf66 & that would be?
@handsofrand6660
@handsofrand6660 2 года назад
@@chadghostall5648 historiography is just reading articles in a scholarly manner
@9124Nove
@9124Nove 2 года назад
This isn't anything new. He's been doing deep dives for years. If anything, it's more frequent now.
@yungtoolshed251
@yungtoolshed251 2 года назад
Been a Bucs fan since I moved to Tampa over a decade ago, the Glazers aren’t perfect but the games are fun to go to, the stadium experience is nice, the team is plugged in to the local area, and even during the wilderness years of 2010-2020 they could put together teams that were at least somewhat fun to watch. Doug Martin, Mike Evans, Lavonte David, Gerald McCoy, Vincent Jackson, and even Jameis Winston(he did have a few immaculate plays a year) all made the team fun to watch even though they lost a lot of games.
@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza
@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza 2 года назад
Tell that to Manchester United
@otaviofrn_adv
@otaviofrn_adv 2 года назад
The Bucaneers is a franchise of thrills or chills in it's history. No in between
@obijuanquenobi1911
@obijuanquenobi1911 2 года назад
@@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza at this point, I love watching Man U just for the comedy even though I had a much bigger laugh because of a certain French team…
@mach6893
@mach6893 2 года назад
@@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza Man U didn't even need a billionaire owner to begin with. Man U used to be a self-sustaining club.
@micahkiyimba8641
@micahkiyimba8641 2 года назад
The Glazers have basically ruined the "Steelers" of English football. When they arrived Manchester United was the most successful and best club in the country and possibly the world..but they've run it into the ground
@empire0
@empire0 2 года назад
These videos kill me. Feeding players Wendy's, making them buy their own drinks, offering them loans on a bullshit property development as part of their contract😂
@UrinatingTree
@UrinatingTree 2 года назад
Even worse. They had to buy Wendy's for themselves. The team didn't provide it.
@Evan-fw6wt
@Evan-fw6wt 2 года назад
i love these videos about old owners. i know nothing about them yet im still fully invested.
@grand_tourist46
@grand_tourist46 2 года назад
Rest assured, you are not alone.
@epickendall1
@epickendall1 2 года назад
I wonder going to do one on a terrible NHL owner or NBA owner
@Charles_Groebs
@Charles_Groebs 2 года назад
@@epickendall1 NBA is easily Donald Sterling, NHL I think would be the infamous Dollar Bill Wirtz.
@nerdstop5025
@nerdstop5025 2 года назад
@@Charles_Groebs Would the owners of the Hawks and Thrashers in the 2000s qualify for both? Or just NHL, cause we did have good years from Iso Joe, Josh Smith, and Big Al.
@epickendall1
@epickendall1 2 года назад
@@Charles_Groebs never heard about the last guy
@Harv72b
@Harv72b 2 года назад
I mean, it's hard to rank an owner as _worse_ than a guy who literally had to be forced to integrate his team by the *sitting President of the United States* , but Culverhouse was certainly down there.
@Eibarwoman
@Eibarwoman 2 года назад
Or the 53-year reign of William Clay Ford Sr., the man who wasted Calvin Johnson, Billy Sims, and Barry Sanders and only winning 2 playoff games in the whole span in 1968 and 1991. It was said that his father bought him the Lions so he wouldn't run Ford Motor Company into the ground.
@otaviofrn_adv
@otaviofrn_adv 2 года назад
@@Eibarwoman Henry Ford, in his grave, said of William Clay's passing: thanks God that I have no more grandsons alive, this one was a disgrace But William bought the Lions himself. He was a minor owner from 61, turning into sole owner after 1963. His father, Edsel, the only child of Henry Ford, passed away in 1943 at age 49, when William was 16-17 years old.
@someperson3883
@someperson3883 2 года назад
@Fries Only the Cowgirls would lose a playoff game to Detrash
@jet4212006
@jet4212006 2 года назад
"The Glazers are far form the best owners in sports." Manchester United fans "PREACH!"
@epicchk4319
@epicchk4319 2 года назад
It could be worse Stan Kroenke and Arsenal
@epicchk4319
@epicchk4319 2 года назад
@@chriswolf1089 Yeah but they haven't won the Premiere League since 2004.
@JuicyPlayer
@JuicyPlayer Год назад
2 Super Bowl wins though. I don’t follow soccer but the Glazers are god compared to Culverhouse.
@nathanhosea489
@nathanhosea489 3 месяца назад
​@@JuicyPlayer The Glazers got lucky with the Bucs. Man U didn't have debt before they came and now they have a crap ton of debt
@JuicyPlayer
@JuicyPlayer 3 месяца назад
@@nathanhosea489 winning 2 super bowls isn’t luck
@zetastreaker47
@zetastreaker47 2 года назад
May Hugh Culverhouse forever rot in Hell for his penny-pinching and cruel actions against his family. The NFL has so many shitty owners in its history it could be its own basketball team. Starting lineup, a sixth man, and a bench of 7.
@ironskull1420
@ironskull1420 2 месяца назад
15:50
@targettoad691
@targettoad691 Год назад
Fun Fact about the Bucs: Until Tom Brady resigned last year, no Buccaneers QB had ever signed a 2nd contract with the team. Even to this day, no quarterback has stayed on the Tampa Bay roster for 7 or more years.
@doubledown0411
@doubledown0411 2 года назад
I moved to Florida in 1985 when I was 9. My Stepdad got a job in Tampa. When we visited his office the first time, we drove near the Bucs HQ. I was shocked even as a kid how drab it was. It looked a just a plain office park. No Flags or logos, or anything. Then when you fly out of Tampa, you go right over it. It even looked like shit from the air. It's amazing the had any success. I basically stayed a Giants fan till I was an adult and the Glazers bought the team and brought in Tony Dungy.
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
Lifelong Bucs fan here. I long knew about the Bucs' tiny HQ. I always wondered why that was the case throughout my childhood and it's clear why it was so tiny and drab. That the weight room in their current HQ is nearly as big as their entire original HQ was is stunning.
@koneheadcokehead4981
@koneheadcokehead4981 2 года назад
At least Doug Williams got a happy ending at the end of the day winning a Super Bowl with Commanders in Superbowl 22 and even winning the MVP for the Super Bowl and is even the Senior Advisor for the Commanders now, but man being the only starting Black quarterback at the time and then only getting paid $120,000 which in some cases was lower than the third string quarterback really sits unwell with me and i'm just really glad he at least got to win that Super Bowl with the Commanders to spit in the face of Culverhouse.
@George_Fl0yd
@George_Fl0yd 2 года назад
They were called the Redskins when they won. No need to be scared of using that name
@iamhungey12345
@iamhungey12345 2 года назад
*Redskins They won't be the "Commanders" until recently.
@ladyfire44
@ladyfire44 2 года назад
The former Redskins should've gone with the Rebels as their new name to keep the red and gold in them. Commanders doesn't suit them.
@randyjohnson8262
@randyjohnson8262 2 года назад
Doug Williams never played for the Commanders. He did play for the Redskins
@eddiekulp1241
@eddiekulp1241 2 года назад
The Redskins , will never use that stupid new name.
@ThreePointOneFou
@ThreePointOneFou 2 года назад
The man's widow said she wanted to pull him up out of the ground and kill him herself. When Robert Irsay Sr. passed and nobody wanted to talk about him because they couldn't think of anything good to say about the man, I thought, "That's got to be the worst thing in the world when your own family doesn't want to talk about you after you just died." Wrong on my part!
@williambrightman1375
@williambrightman1375 Год назад
Culverhouse's Widow felt that way because Hugh screwed her over financially and also had multiple extra marital affairs behind her back as well.
@johnmarshall4399
@johnmarshall4399 11 месяцев назад
She loved money
@willhennessy864
@willhennessy864 2 года назад
I'm genuinely impressed that you managed to make it through the Doug Williams section without an absolute tidal wave of profanity. Good god, that man was robbed.
@davester1970
@davester1970 2 года назад
As a Cincinnati Reds fan, we may have had Marge Schott as an ignorant and crazy owner, but at least the Reds contended and won a World Series Championship with her at the helm. Hugh Culverhouse was a cheap joke. I felt bad for John McKay and Leroy Selmon back in the day.
@Tyrunner0097
@Tyrunner0097 2 года назад
The fact that McKay got an 0-14 team to within 5 years be one win away from the Super Bowl is damn impressive. If Culverhouse wasn't the miser POS he was, McKay would've had a much better coaching career in the NFL
@anthonyavendano6718
@anthonyavendano6718 2 года назад
Tree please keep this sports history videos up. with no sportsball these videos fill the empty void
@radien239
@radien239 2 года назад
George Preston Marshall was hated in the DC area. Big reason why there’s many cowboy fans here. Damn Skins always have horrible owners with the exception of JKC
@PADRII
@PADRII 2 года назад
I looked him up on wikipedia just to see. I didn't find that much, but I found this gem: "His refusal to integrate was routinely mocked by Shirley Povich, a columnist for The Washington Post, who called him "one of pro football’s greatest innovators, and its leading bigot." Marshall unsuccessfully sued Povich for $200,000 after a critical article." Dan Snyder didn't learn from history it seems like.
@Tyrunner0097
@Tyrunner0097 2 года назад
Similar to Culverhouse, Marshall did some good things for the league, including creating the championship game playoff system, making a more equal playing schedule for teams, and using television to do regular broadcasts of games. However, he was absolutely a Kx3 member in all but an official title. A complete racist POS. He protested the formation of the Cowboys, because he wanted Washington to be the team of the deep South, and Texas was part of his territory. He wasn't allowed to field his team in RFK Stadium until the local government forced him to integrate, and when he gave in and traded for Bobby Mitchell, in Mitchell's first meeting with the team, Marshall led the rest of the white players in singing "Dixie", and forced Mitchell to sing with them.
@mach6893
@mach6893 2 года назад
@@Tyrunner0097 Honestly, the feds should have evicted GPM and the Skins form RFK Stadium until he sold the Skins.
@JBarg25
@JBarg25 2 года назад
The apocryphal story is that RFK threatened to lock them out of the then-new DC Stadium in his guise as Attorney General unless the team integrated.
@johnpoole3871
@johnpoole3871 2 года назад
Yeah I didn't think much of John Kent Cook but I wish he didn't have to sell the team. Now Washington is doomed forever, our only hope is to keep winning this terrible division with 8-9 records and try to avoid Seattle in the playoffs.
@ralph8677
@ralph8677 2 года назад
With the USFL around the corner, I'm surprised nothing was brought up about the Tampa Bay Bandits. They were one of (if not the only) USFL team that was more popular than their NFL counterpart thanks to John Bassett's free-spending mentality to make games entertaining. When the Bucs changed their uniforms in 1997, they did so with a look that wasn't a revamp of the "creamsicle" orange & red, but a red & black scheme that was very similar to the Bandit uniforms. It's almost as if they wanted to pay tribute to John Bassett instead of Hugh Culverhouse...
@mjwatts1983
@mjwatts1983 2 года назад
It was the Bandits owner who was strongly against the Generals owner’s half-baked scheme to shift to a fall schedule which was one of many reasons if not the one reason why the USFL folded
@mjwatts1983
@mjwatts1983 2 года назад
@holykuhrap That’s for another story…
@z2ei
@z2ei 2 года назад
@holykuhrap It doesn't hurt that Bud Adams firing Bum Phillips for not beating the (Super Bowl Champion) Raiders only to tank the next decade really pissed off the entire city of Houston.
@royals080
@royals080 2 года назад
Pittsburgh maulers was pretty popular in Pittsburgh some how
@greenfroppy212
@greenfroppy212 2 года назад
As a Bucs fan the Bo Jackson thing still hurts to this day
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
Even as a Bucs fan, I never blamed Jackson for not suiting up for the Bucs given the stunt the club pulled.
@mach6893
@mach6893 2 года назад
@@marcus813 I don't blame Bo either. I blame Culverhouse.
@greenfroppy212
@greenfroppy212 2 года назад
@@marcus813 Same here. What the Bucs tried to pull was disgusting
@BTLAGS
@BTLAGS 2 года назад
I believe Bo jackson not going to Tampa was the best thing to happen to Bo jackson he would have been ruined by the Bucs and their track record.
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
@@BTLAGS Based on how Culverhouse ran things, he might have ruined a promising backfield of Jackson and Steve Young anyway.
@JoelElRican
@JoelElRican 2 года назад
As a Bucs fan who wasn't alive in Culverhouse's reign, the stories are well known in the old school fandom and there is never a good thing to say about the guy. People who have stayed fans even during this time, are the real ones.
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
I'm one of those fans. The Bucs made the playoffs in the strike-marred '82 season, but I was only a baby back then. As a result, I didn't get to watch the Bucs in a playoff game on live TV until I was in freakin' HIGH SCHOOL! I don't know how I remained a fan during my childhood, but I was rewarded for it.
@someperson3883
@someperson3883 2 года назад
Compared to the 90% of Brady wagons
@carolinekelman2403
@carolinekelman2403 2 года назад
Now please do Matt Millen’s tenure with the Lions.
@carolinekelman2403
@carolinekelman2403 2 года назад
@Michael Orme sounds right for Detroit.
@1069KLICFM
@1069KLICFM 2 года назад
@Michael Orme when did Bobby Layne curse the Lions?
@davester1970
@davester1970 Год назад
As a Steeler fan, I thank William Clay Ford and the Lions for Kevin Colbert. Colbert was the Lion's director of player scouting in the late 90's. The Lions could have had Colbert running the team instead of Matt Millen. Instead he builds championship and contending teams in Pittsburgh.
@jtewr1860
@jtewr1860 2 года назад
Rare delicacy when UTree posts
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@badger6728
@badger6728 2 года назад
Hail, fellow Bengals fan!
@jtewr1860
@jtewr1860 2 года назад
@@badger6728 WHO DEY
@raineob4996
@raineob4996 2 года назад
Love the ownership deep dives. Any chance we can get one on John Spano (fraudulently bought the Islanders) or Howard Baldwin? (almost led to the Penguins being moves)
@tehbeernerd
@tehbeernerd 2 года назад
ESPN made a good documentary about Spano already
@UrinatingTree
@UrinatingTree 2 года назад
IIRC, Baldwin gave away the farm to get Civic Arena renovated in the late 90's, which cut off the Pens revenue-making abilities at the knee. That's what put them in bankruptcy and nearly had them move.
@penguinsfan251
@penguinsfan251 2 года назад
@@UrinatingTree Tree, both you and I know that Baldwin was a shyster who was broke and BSed his way into taking control of the Penguins with debt and other people's money. Some of that blame falls on the late Ed Debartolo. De Bartolo had money for horse race tracks, shopping plazas, the Pittsburgh Maulers, malls (R.I.P. Century III, I loved that place when it was new) and the 49ers. The one entity he whined about losing money on was the Penguins. I give him credit for allowing the rebuild to take place under his watch but it was low class to whine about it at the Cup celebration. So, he dumped the team for a piddly $11 million (in 1991 dollars) to Baldwin's group. Baldwin dumped the skating penguin for the pigeon. Baldwin switched the radio rights to WTAE (I could listen to the games on KDKA from Northeast Ohio and the Baltimore-DC area, but WTAE's signal could not reach the top of Mount Washington - and that was during the day. The drafts under Baldwin were bad - the scouting department budget had to be cut. There was Straka and nothing else. The guy who owned the Cleveland Lumberjacks, the Pens' farm team, had to sign and use veteran IHL players because the Pens had no prospects. Something both DeBartolo and Baldwin were guilty of was not pushing for a new arena. The old Igloo, even with great views from the lower E balconies, was obsolete in the 1970s. DeBartolo's real estate development expertise could have landed a new arena in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The Pens should have got a new arena - either between PNC Park and Heinz Field, or entered into a partnership with Pitt to have a new arena in Oakland (not Oakland, California, for aht of tahners) using what is the present day wasteland across the Boulevard of the Allies from Magee Women's Hospital. Heck, Pitt could have had a scholarship hockey team and the football Panthers could have played in a new stadium on the site of the old Pitt Stadium...another story. But...Baldwin was broke, not making the Cup final in 1993 or 1994 with teams good enough to make it there, his failure of a movie, his failure to attract partners with deep pockets, etc. The Penguins had underfunded owners in the 1960s and 1970s, but Baldwin was worse than any of them. DeBartolo had to suffer with the 1982-83 and 1983-84 Penguins, who drew about 4,000 a game, whose top star was Mike Bullard, in the midst of a recession that took Western Pennsylvania's unemployment to about 16%. It's worth mentioning that Baldwin was involved in owning the Whalers and the North Stars. He didn't cause them to move - they had their own problems - but Baldwin did nothing to help. Think about it....Mario never got paid the entire amount of that big contract he signed with Baldwin. When Mario got the Pens out of bankruptcy court, he had a .500 team that was absent almost all the stars from the early 1990s, an inactive AHL franchise, an old and obsolete barn with seats as comfortable to sit on as a bed of nails and a scouting staff that was threadbare. The bankruptcy judge was favorable to Mario, but he still had a list of secured creditors to pay. Somehow he managed to get Burkle to put up $20 million and they set about making the Penguins a showcase franchise. Mario, who came to Pittsburgh barely speaking English, who dropped out of school after the 10th grade (if memory serves), who had NO experience running any kind of business...became a better owner than 99% of the jagoffs who own teams in all the North American major sports leagues. Mario paid off every creditor, secured and unsecured, at 100% to the dollar. He set up the hospital playrooms for kids and started his own foundation. The Penguins had no huge TV & radio market to bail out financial mistakes. The Pens' opponents were almost all playing in newer arenas with more money from parking, club seats, boxes and sponsorships. Yet, the Pens beat all odds. Mario belongs in the Hockey Hall of Fame as an owner. Every indoor ice rink within 70 miles of Pittsburgh is almost always busy with youth hockey and we need more rinks. Crummy, greedy, lousy owners deserve to be excoriated. Those who do great work both with their franchises and off the field/court/ice should be promoted.
@turbokart3776
@turbokart3776 2 года назад
There is a reason the Bucs have far and away the worst all-time record of any team in the NFL and will likely never dig their way to a .500 all-time record: this man's horrifyingly bad ownership.
@thepassingstatic6268
@thepassingstatic6268 2 года назад
You never know. Bruce Arians has had them going in the right direction as of late
@Eibarwoman
@Eibarwoman 2 года назад
The Lions have the same with William Clay Ford around for 53 years dragging the team down to a 45.1%. Barring a second coming of Lombardi or Belichick, you're not going to dig out of that hole.
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
It would take the Glazers ages to get the Bucs out of that hole, but they did preside over 2 Super Bowl titles, which I'm thankful for.
@mach6893
@mach6893 2 года назад
@@Eibarwoman Dan Campbell eats William Clay Ford's kneecaps for breakfast!
@hello-rq8kf
@hello-rq8kf 6 месяцев назад
sub 0.5 doesn't bother me. we have the best SB trophies : total wins ratio
@tannerwilson4843
@tannerwilson4843 2 года назад
Love that your beginning to do some old school LOLCow’s from prominent sports figures from say the 70’s and 80’s. Would love to see more of these.
@daltonjohnson38
@daltonjohnson38 2 года назад
I've heard the stories about the early BUCS. But gosh dang, Hugh was awful
@Spartan536
@Spartan536 2 года назад
UrinatingTree was also not going into detail, this was just a synopsis, it gets MUCH WORSE in detail.
@docfrazier99
@docfrazier99 2 года назад
@@Spartan536 Feel free to give us the details!
@Spartan536
@Spartan536 2 года назад
@@docfrazier99 I would need to make a hour long video at minimum. To put it bluntly here as UrinatingTree stated at the end of his video, his WIDOWED WIFE would like to have resurrected her dead husband just to shoot him with every bullet she could get. The man was one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever walk the Earth, and that is putting him right next to people like Stalin, Putin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Hitler.
@declanssportsdesk
@declanssportsdesk 2 года назад
Great work on this video, Tree. I’ve always had a passion for the stories of NFL owners and I hope there will be more similar videos in the future.
@fabriziolorenzo2392
@fabriziolorenzo2392 2 года назад
Tree, these historical videos have really injected new life into your channel. I LOVE them, keep it up!
@hollowred1935
@hollowred1935 2 года назад
growing up i always wondered how the Bucs kept letting SB worthy QBs go to other teams and win. now i see the full picture. Thank You Tree.
@BadErnest
@BadErnest 2 года назад
Well done, Sir! I’m glad you noted his relationship with Georgia Frontiere and the Rams organization. I remember when he died, nobody seemed too upset about it.
@ResoluteMujigae
@ResoluteMujigae 2 года назад
Georgia Frontiere was a female.
@BadErnest
@BadErnest 2 года назад
@@ResoluteMujigae I’m aware of that
@colliesis
@colliesis 2 года назад
I swear, the MLB lockout has just *activated* Tree. No owner is safe. He's coming for /yourteam/'s owner next!
@ethanhatcher5533
@ethanhatcher5533 2 года назад
Hopefully Anthony Precourt is next
@Tyrunner0097
@Tyrunner0097 2 года назад
If Tree was more into the NBA, he could do a good one on Herb Kohl. Yes, he's still appreciated for doing all he could to keep the Bucks in Milwaukee, and we're eternally grateful, but Kohl was like Harold Ballard in that he only allowed the Bucks to be good enough to make the playoffs, then collect the playoff revenue. Never wanted to spend just a bit more to make the team better and also scrimped many times on improving the Bradley Center. Yes, some fans are now bashing Lasry and Edens for continually raising ticket prices (20-50% increases for season ticket holders), but they're at least spending money on the team, and we finally got a championship back in Milwaukee.
@calebh9710
@calebh9710 2 года назад
Good thing the Broncos are for sell
@reedermh
@reedermh 2 года назад
I would suggest he do one on Texas Rangers ownership. Except that outside of W, NONE of them have been good.
@JoeVideoed
@JoeVideoed 2 года назад
@@reedermh Did W ever lead the team to the playoffs? I don't think so. All I know about his tenure there was that he traded Sammy Sosa to Chicago, to which as a Cubs fan I said at the time, "THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!!!!!!!!!".
@SlobberyPantsu
@SlobberyPantsu 2 года назад
I appreciate the Chris Chandler nod at 11:00, even if nobody else does
@Spartan536
@Spartan536 2 года назад
Thank you @UrinatingTree for doing this video, I have been waiting for this. Hugh Culverhouse is the prime example of what you DON'T want in a Franchise Owner. Everyone here in Tampa Bay hates his dead ass and his legacy, we hate him so much that we try not to talk about him and when we do its never anything good.
@Beginstheman
@Beginstheman Год назад
Outside of the 2 odd Super Bowls, the Glazers can be described as outright horrible of their own as well. If you look at what they have done to Manchester United, they would be right up there with Culverhouse when they have to show some kind of astuteness and personal investment into a sports club.
@JuicyPlayer
@JuicyPlayer Год назад
They are great owners by NFL standards. They’re not cheap and actually invest in the team.
@iamhungey12345
@iamhungey12345 2 года назад
How Doug Williams survived his time with Culverhouse Bucs I'll never know. I wonder how the guy could have turn out had he spend majority of his career with a more decently run team rather than towards the end.
@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569
@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569 2 года назад
One of the best easily.
@brianmiller1077
@brianmiller1077 2 года назад
Or Warren Moon playing in Canada for 4-5 years
@frankez1975
@frankez1975 Год назад
Those Joe Gibbs Redskins teams were the epitome of class and professionalism. He survived that wacky Jay Schroeder competition to have the greatest quarter in Superbowl history!
@jakesmith6233
@jakesmith6233 2 года назад
Tree with another historic piece. I'm liking this. Though it begs the question, which historic piece is the best so far (has to be between 2020-present). Mine has to be Mike Keenan and his legacy of volatility.
@koneheadcokehead4981
@koneheadcokehead4981 2 года назад
You know somehow at least he was able to buy the team and not didn't have enough assets to buy the team like John Spano and then go to jail for it
@colestanoch3459
@colestanoch3459 2 года назад
I may be biased, but you need to do a video on Norm Green. He is still despised here in Minnesota.
@tehbeernerd
@tehbeernerd 2 года назад
The way they lost the North Stars is an all time scumbag move
@penguinsfan251
@penguinsfan251 2 года назад
@@tehbeernerd I'm sure you know more than I do....wasn't the Met Sports Center and Metropolitan Stadium torn down to make way for the Mall of America? It seems Green thought he could sell the team for more money with it being based in Dallas, which is what he did. It sux, but at least you got another team. Green is hated in Minnesota, Modell is hated in Cleveland, Irsay is hated in Baltimore, Bob Short was hated in Washington, DC (but the Senators moved to Texas 50 years ago). I'm sure Cal Griffith wasn't loved in DC for moving the first Senators to the Twin Cities.....
@crosstatt7441
@crosstatt7441 5 месяцев назад
Did Norm ever return to Minneapolis or even Minnesota?
@crosstatt7441
@crosstatt7441 5 месяцев назад
@@penguinsfan251Also, I have heard that Bud Adams is hated in Houston.
@willbtwins
@willbtwins 2 года назад
Tree I love these cause as a younger fan of the game I know nothing of the game from like the early 1990 and before. So when ever you bring stuff like this up it just opens up even more legacy to the teams
@154alaska
@154alaska 2 года назад
content like this is why i became a fan of your channel in the first place excited to see you inevitably rip Charles Finley soon
@lastsinnersa8002
@lastsinnersa8002 2 года назад
I've always wanted to see more about certain owners that either ruined expansion teams or held back teams that could have won a championship. Klein, Chargers owner in the Dan Fouts era, preferred horses to humans because they didn't talk back - would love to see Tree's take on him.
@kcjc
@kcjc 2 года назад
To anyone interested in the topic, I highly recommend the book “The Yucks!” it’s about the creation and first couple years of the Buccaneers. It’s a good/interesting read.
@JBarg25
@JBarg25 2 года назад
My library has a copy. It's terrific. I hope Tree pulls from the book (I'm three minutes in to the video).
@JoeVideoed
@JoeVideoed 2 года назад
Might be something I'll eventually look into. Thanks for da tip. For any1 else looking for good books about American-style football I'd recommend "Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco" by Brett Forrest, who did the sports beat for the Las Vegas Review-Journal & had a front row seat for the city original pro sports franchise. Talk about a hot mess.
@JBarg25
@JBarg25 2 года назад
@@JoeVideoed That's also good - bought a secondhand copy in 2010 before the league's rebirth was even a thing. Apparently Forrest mentioned on Twitter that he had a few copies in boxes because the book didn't sell well in 2002. (He made that comment in the wake of McMahon's relaunch announcement in 2018.)
@James-fm4lk
@James-fm4lk 2 года назад
As a Bucs fan, I've been waiting for this shit for years
@okolo22000
@okolo22000 2 года назад
This is now my absolute favorite video you ever made. To think that the first 2 victories the Buccaneers had led to the firings of Hank Stram and Don Coryell (2 HOF Head coaches no less.) By the way, do you know a RU-vidr by the name of Jaguar Gator 9?
@Charles_Groebs
@Charles_Groebs 2 года назад
If you do another historical owners vid, I would throw the names Karl Pohlad (Cheapskate owner of the Twins) and Glenn Taylor (The man who ruined the Wolves for years).
@iexist_15
@iexist_15 2 года назад
Glenn Taylor is so bad that KG actually refused to have his number retired as long as Taylor was the owner. At least that dream came true for Garnett.
@brianmiller1077
@brianmiller1077 2 года назад
SB Nation has one on the Glenn Taylor/KG beef.
@psychris101
@psychris101 2 года назад
Great article, enjoyed immensely.
@j.mieses8139
@j.mieses8139 2 года назад
As a Bucs I appreciate the video on on the Crappy history of my team..We have come a long way!
@disneyfan8719
@disneyfan8719 2 года назад
Not to mention that the GM who built that 2002 SB winning team was none other than John McKay's son, Rich McKay! Also, Chris Chandler later became the starting QB of the Atlanta Falcons team that made Super Bowl 33. And didn't Vinny Testaverde play better for other teams as well like the Jets?
@penguinsfan251
@penguinsfan251 2 года назад
He played good football for the Browns, Ravens and Jets.
@ThatShadowSiren
@ThatShadowSiren 2 года назад
We in Tampa take pride in being the only team in NFL history to lose 26 straight games.
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
Even as a Bucs fan, I wouldn't wish this record on any NFL club.
@TBMike
@TBMike 2 года назад
As a bucs fan, why did u make me relive this shit
@scottbabecki59
@scottbabecki59 2 года назад
I've been a Bucs fan since I was 16yrs old in 1976. ALL of this is true and yes, it really happened. So much pain and ineptitude here in Tampa for a great majority of the last 46 years 😢 💔
@otaviofrn_adv
@otaviofrn_adv 2 года назад
at least y'all had some compensation (in the form of good results) for all the mismanagement, cheapness, bafoonery and etc
@christmashake8968
@christmashake8968 2 года назад
Y'know, when you put it that way, maybe being blessed with the good fortune of having Brady swing by to create a superteam in his twilight years isn't such a bad thing, after all. :/
@scottbabecki59
@scottbabecki59 2 года назад
@@christmashake8968 For Sure! Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would see the Bucs become one of the most dominant teams in the NFL. Not even in the Dungy/Gruden years!!
@TheShinyFeraligatr
@TheShinyFeraligatr 2 года назад
No, no, Tree, it's not frugality not seen this side of Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge actually pays his employees living wage and made a lot of money from an incredible understanding of economics.
@theicchamp06
@theicchamp06 10 месяцев назад
The Glazer family saved the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by purchasing them. 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Super Bowl XXXVII champions (with one of the best defenses in NFL history). 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Super Bowl LV champions (in Tom Brady's first year with the team).
@jimmysaints
@jimmysaints 2 года назад
Ok, I am LOVING this series of owner history you've been doing. It's fantastic! It's funny and educational.
@garrettatkinson4123
@garrettatkinson4123 2 года назад
My dad had to watch this team throughout the 80’s. The Bucs have always been bad since I’ve been watching (other than the Brady years, and I’m only 22), but I’m glad I wasn’t alive for that era.
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
I'm 40 as of this post and you should definitely be glad you didn't live through that mess like I did. It was worse than what you grew up watching! LOL
@MFPLATYPUS
@MFPLATYPUS 2 года назад
man I knew the Buccaneers have a long, proud history of shooting themselves in the foot but I didn't realize Culverhouse was around for THAT long.
@MegaSammy70
@MegaSammy70 2 года назад
Being an Atlanta Falcon fan while growing up in the late 70's and 80's i'd have to put Rankin Smith on the list of worst NFL owners during that period...This guy also forgot to mention St.Louis Cardinal owner Bill Bidwill who was notorious for being cheap.
@chrisbutler1668
@chrisbutler1668 11 месяцев назад
When I was in middle school in the early-mid 1990's, I had a school bus driver who we called "Griff" who liked me more than all of the other bratty kids on the bus (often I would sit up front, right behind his seat and talk sports, his family, etc.) One year, on the last day of the school before the Christmas break, he gifted me a poster of the team photo of the 1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The strangest part (not just because the team was terrible) was that we lived in northeastern Connecticut, where half of the football fans in the region rooted for the New England Patriots, and the other half rooted for the New York Giants, and NOBODY rooted for the Bucs.
@gavinpyle8654
@gavinpyle8654 2 года назад
I really love these video essay style stories, really interesting stuff
@FLTB7600
@FLTB7600 2 года назад
As a lifelong Bucs Fan, and the son of a Bucs fan from Day 1 in 1976, all of this is accurate to the core. We Bucs fans have seen just about everything that can happen. Very few fans of other teams can put up with the stuff we've witnessed. I guess you could say we are the ultimate underdogs if you take our whole history into account.
@dangelo1369
@dangelo1369 2 года назад
It's this kind of abuse by ownership that led to such things as The Black Sox Scandal of 1919 and later the formation of player's unions starting with the MLBPA. What this sounds like to me is that Culverhouse was seriously short on money and the team was undercapitalized. He was probably running month to month with operating expenses. Now, while I do agree that Culverhouse was a bad owner, I also have to blame the NFL for not doing due diligence in vetting him as an owner to make sure he had sufficient capital to own and operate an NFL franchise.
@mach6893
@mach6893 2 года назад
Oh Hustler Hugh had plenty of capital. He was just a greedy skinflint.
@dangelo1369
@dangelo1369 2 года назад
@@mach6893 Going further into the video, I found that out. I’ll never understand that kind of mentality. How such people like him, Ballard and Marge Schott become successful and get to own sports franchises boggles the mind. The only way I can put it is this: I could never understand how pimps, the brutal kind, not only became wealthy but maintained the loyalty of his *ahem* employees when everything you know about business, ethics and humanity says that it’s doomed to failure.
@ReeseLeeArt
@ReeseLeeArt Год назад
Been following off and on since the old video game stuff. You’re my favorite content creator Tree. Great work!
@DANNY74125
@DANNY74125 2 года назад
I'm loving all of these historical videos you've been doing lately. If you want to continue then I'm all for it.
@Hooper1254
@Hooper1254 2 года назад
Let’s go bro, thank you for making these videos tree. Love the backstory of all these POS franchises. Keep it up man!
@Klaus99999
@Klaus99999 2 года назад
Can’t wait to see a video on the McCaskey’s. They are RUINING the Bears.
@Tyrunner0097
@Tyrunner0097 2 года назад
He already has. It's one of his earlier videos
@Klaus99999
@Klaus99999 2 года назад
@@Tyrunner0097 has he? I’m not talking about the video he made on the Bears, I mean a video solely focused on the McCaskey’s.
@taptiotrevizo9415
@taptiotrevizo9415 Год назад
How is that lady still alive?
@oddballskull1941
@oddballskull1941 2 года назад
I’m liking these “profile videos” or whatever you want to call them where you do a brief history of a particular person, especially non athletes, who are involved in sports franchises
@crowtservo
@crowtservo 2 года назад
Sit down to eat lunch, grab my iPad and holy shit! Yes! A video about Hugh Culverhouse. The Bob Nutting of his era.
@justinnzamora5366
@justinnzamora5366 2 года назад
If UT wants to continue targeting crappy sports teams owners, I wouldn't mind seeing one on Ken Behring. When his name is mentioned, all I can think of is the time the Seahawks nearly relocated.
@johnchedsey1306
@johnchedsey1306 2 года назад
I feel like that story needs told in modern times, since Seattle got extremely lucky when Paul Allen ended up purchasing the team. If I recall, moving trucks were just about ready to move the team to California before Allen stepped in.
@justinnzamora5366
@justinnzamora5366 2 года назад
@@johnchedsey1306 All of this was occurring not too long after the Mariners had that improbable season to keep baseball in the Emerald City.
@miked237
@miked237 2 года назад
As a Seahawks fan, I'd love to see this, as well as one on whichever Spanos decided to tear the hearts out of Charger fans in San Diego. And Clay Bennett. Seriously, f*** that guy.
@justinnzamora5366
@justinnzamora5366 2 года назад
@@miked237 #BringBackTheSonics
@UrinatingTree
@UrinatingTree 2 года назад
@@johnchedsey1306 I think the NFL smacked it down at the last moment. Behring already had the team offices set up in the Anaheim area before the move. They were really close to fucking off.
@KD-vj1td
@KD-vj1td 2 года назад
To answer the question in the beginning, I'm a little biased. But The Ford's. Despite the fact that Shiela actual seems to know what she's doing, her parents outright SUCKED. William and Martha were so hands off with this organization, I wouldn't be shocked if someone had to come and remind them they owned a football team. I'd honestly be lying if I said I wasn't happy when I saw the photo of Sheila's reaction to the Texans game. Hopefully she stays making good decisions unlike her parents, and doesn't become neglectful and keeps our front office.
@mach6893
@mach6893 2 года назад
WCF and Martha were lousy owners, but they weren't scumbags. WCF was simply a nice guy who was loyal to a fault.
@notsauer
@notsauer 2 года назад
Martha was fine. She may be unfairly credited with the Quinntricia hires, but when she took over, she immediately made moves to get better. The Lions made two playoff appearances under her in her first 3 years. Not really her fault Tony Dungy and the others on that council said to hire Bob Quinn
@NWOWCW4Life1
@NWOWCW4Life1 2 года назад
Man that’s wild. You really do amazing on these documentaries Tree
@rotcehlobo8311
@rotcehlobo8311 Год назад
Most in depth and passionate sports biography channel on YT. Thank you.
@keemhater9624
@keemhater9624 2 года назад
This guy is literally real life Mr. Krabs
@clipobserver
@clipobserver 2 года назад
As a Bucs fan, I knew he was cheap but CRAP!!!!! Also, he chased out Ron Wolf who was the first GM Bucs had who built that team that went to the playoffs 3 out of 4 seasons after the 0-26 start.
@clipobserver
@clipobserver 2 года назад
@Fries Yes that guy
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
That's what I was thinking about Culverhouse until I saw this video. He sure was a piece of work!
@teen_laqueefa
@teen_laqueefa 2 года назад
@Fries also saw Favre potential when he was dying in ATLANTA depth chart
@alekjenkins2558
@alekjenkins2558 2 года назад
Literally came out of surgery 1 hour ago, I really needed this.
@AT-il2ej
@AT-il2ej 2 года назад
Love these retrospectives
@ChiefBlue4298
@ChiefBlue4298 2 года назад
Any Royals fans who enjoyed watching Bo Jackson play for them can thank Hugh Culverhouse for that
@waynehays7447
@waynehays7447 2 года назад
Yes this is pretty accurate though we Bucs fans still laugh and joke about the “glory days” lol
@pnwwags1818
@pnwwags1818 2 года назад
I love these videos thank you tree!
@koneheadcokehead4981
@koneheadcokehead4981 2 года назад
I think i feel more sadness for his son for having the same name as his father
@komm6668
@komm6668 2 года назад
Between that logo combined with their Creamsicle uniforms you'd think Good Humor owned the team
@hutchphilpot6870
@hutchphilpot6870 9 месяцев назад
I was mad thinking you were going to leave out the BEST example of Culverhouse’s cheapness. The fact that a rookie who made his first career interception was given the ball as a keepsake, only to a few days later be billed for the 🏈 , leading him to return the ball to the team. Absolutely PITIFUL.
@MrEngel333
@MrEngel333 2 года назад
I still count my blessings that I was too young to have to deal with Hugh Culverhouse's antics as a Bucs fan, though his stench still hangs over the history of the team. Needless to say I've been waiting for this video for a while lol, great video Tree!
@MrBlue3rd
@MrBlue3rd 2 года назад
I remember his name from the Bo Jackson 30 for 30 and he cost Bo his final year of eligibility in baseball on purpose in hopes he could get him as the #1 pick in the draft.
@marcus813
@marcus813 2 года назад
That's why even as a longtime Bucs fan, I always sided with Jackson on this issue.
@michaelbee2165
@michaelbee2165 2 года назад
@@marcus813 As a Bucs fan AND an Auburn student who watched Bo rampage over defenses on Saturday afternoons, I will always side with Bo over this fiasco.
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