I'm very impressed with how the buccaneers went from worst to first but I have to admit I love the old red, orange, and white uniforms colors better then what they have now the logo was much more cool looking.
The Buccaneers are one of the most forgotten lost dynasties from that time. With Lee Roy Selmon, Jimmie Giles and Doug Williams leading the way, the Buccaneers should've had more shots at a Super Bowl back then, but major botches by player personnel people and Hugh Culverhouse undermined the club until the Glazer family bought it.
@@user-co1gi7yd2r Culverhouse as you know was a crook according to another person he tried to swindle money out of Doug Williams wanting him to invest in making a building that never existed.
@@user-co1gi7yd2rAs I told another on this video I hope that Culverhouse was watching SUPER BOWL XXII.Joe Gibbs was the reason that the Bucs drafted Willams out of Grambling.
McKay told a funny story about a kicker they had in training camp the first year. Seems the guy missed all his kicks. One day he came to McKay and said "Coach, I think I know the problem. It's you. You make me nervous and that's causing me to miss every kick". McKay replied, "It seems like we have a problem then because I was planning to be at all the games".
Baji Kimran McKay after Tampa Bay broke its 26-game losing streak: "Three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs." "We didn't block very well. But we made up for it by not tackling." Search for a pdf file called johnmckayreflections.pdf it's narrative from a coaching clinic right before he went to Tampa. McKay makes a lot of jokes during it.
'I'm all for it.' He said. When he was at USC, the Trojans didn't play very well the first few trips to Notre Dame, When they went there in 1965, the Irish made them wait several minutes on the field in the cold before they came out. So next time there in 1967, when the referee told McKay to take the field he stayed in the locker room. The referee came a second time and told McKay.'If you don't get out there you forfeit the game..' 'What would the score be?', McKay asked. 'It would be 2-0.' The referee said. McKay,'That would be the best deal I've gotten here yet.' At Tampa after a loss: "Well, we didn't block very well...But we made up for it by not tackling.''
McKay says he was told by Michigan St. Head Coach Duffy Daugherty to get a dog.McKay went on, '...that way even when you lose, you come home and the dog will still be your friend. We got beat by Notre Dame 51-0, and when I came home, he bit me.'
John McKay...God bless em..was just great.."When you come out of that break you 're gonna curl"...receiver drops the pass.."Well ..you would've caught it if you had a catchers mitt"..lollol... and the most classic J McKay quote ever..."Uh coach..what did you think of your teams execution?"..." I'm all for it"...lollol...bahahahaha
One guy who played for McKay was Red Sox outfielder Fred Lynn, a great fielder who could catch anything. (He was a receiver at USC.) It must have been quite a contrast, comparing Lynn to those butterfingered Bucs.
Hugh Culverhouse deserves credit for bringing the team to Tampa Bay. However, because of his miserly ways, he went to great lengths to run this franchise into the ground for the better part of the 1980s and into the 90s. In hindsight, Tampa would have been better served to have a different founder.
Luke Enno That goes without saying he was the reason they were the laughingstock of the NFL for a decade plus.I hope that Culverhouse was watching SUPER BOWL XXII!!!!
i'll give the Bucs mad props for those accomplishments those years...the Seahawks came to the league the same year (1976) and it took them four years after 1979 to finally make the playoffs and another five to win their first division title (1988)
in the 90s, it wasn't good if Jeff Kate was narrating a seven minute history of your team. That meant your team was so awful that nfl films had to add filler to make your team's yearbook more than forty five seconds long
That's not always a bad thing. Patriots kicker John Smith is the only player in NFL history who had no prior experience, in High School or College; yet he led the NFL in scoring a few times.
I grew up in the Orlando area with my late grandparents. My grandfather said culverhouse had no business owning an NFL team. I said to my grandfather during a Bucs game on tv. You would be a better owner. Then that SOB. We both laugh. I was 15 then. He was glad when the Glazers bought the Bucs
