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6 min.

WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?

WHEN I was growing up in the Tampa Bay area in the mid-1980s, I would hear this joke about the Buccaneers: I left two extra tickets to the Buccaneers game on my windshield. I came back an hour later, and there were four. I bring this up to let you know that the Creamsicle-colored misery was real. Because to understand what the unprecedented success of the past year means to the Tampa Bay area, you first must understand how it has suffered. Tampa Bay does not have a deep sports history. Its three major league professional sports franchises—the Bucs, Lightning and Rays—have been around for fewer than 100 seasons combined. The Yankees have been around for 117. People around the country know the Rays as a team that is plucky…

3 min.

The Season

THE BUCCANEERS WERE RUNNING HOT BY THE END OF A REGULAR SEASON THAT INCLUDED ENCOUNTERS WITH TEAMS THEY WOULD DEFEAT IN THE PLAYOFFS ON THE ROAD TO THE SUPER BOWL SEPT. 13 OPENING FRIGHT While CB Sean Murphy-Bunting corralled Saints back Alvin Kamara here, Tampa Bay’s defense mainly struggled in a 34–23 road loss. SEPT. 20 PRUDENT PICKUP Signed in early September after being waived by the Jaguars, running back Leonard Fournette rushed for 103 yards, including a late 46-yard TD, in a 31–17 win over the Panthers. SEPT. 27 HORIZONTAL HOLD The Bucs enjoyed a comfortable 28–10 win in Denver as Chris Godwin had five receptions for 64 yards and a first-quarter touchdown. OCT. 4 CATCHING ON Scotty Miller, a 2019 sixth-round pick, made five grabs for 83 yards…

7 min.

JOY TO BEHOLD

ON HIS WAY to defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul’s hospital room shortly after the All-Pro lost the better part of three fingers on his right hand during a gruesome Fourth of July fireworks accident in 2015, Michael Alessi wondered whether his friend and personal training client might have finally exhausted the tank of energy and positivity that had carried him through a challenging life. Then he saw Pierre-Paul in his room, flashing a knowing grin as he held up a training resistance band—the kind that he used to roll his eyes at during his monotonous warm-up exercises with Alessi. Pierre-Paul had someone smuggle them into Jackson Memorial in Miami, where he was staying under a pseudonym to filter out visitors. The slice of privacy allowed him to wander the hallways doing…

7 min.

UNLIKELY HERO

RECENTLY WHEN Bill Marpet saw his son, Ali, he was taken aback when he noticed his boy dressed up in a black Polo shirt with a red emblem on the chest. This was far nicer than Ali usually dressed; for most of his life, he had revelled in the art of the hand-me-down. Once, on a family vacation to Jamaica on New Year’s Eve, Ali donned his version of formal attire: a T-shirt that read at the corner of happy and healthy that he proudly announced was free of armpit stains. That fashion sense dated back to his toddler years. Once, when Bill was doing the laundry, he asked Ali whether a pair of pajamas he was holding belonged to him. “Yep, them’s are mine. The ones with the holes…

6 min.

’NETTE GAIN

THE BUCCANEERS’ wild-card game against Washington wasn’t hurting for story lines. The biggest had its roots back in last year’s scouting combine, when Ohio State defensive end Chase Young proclaimed that the quarterback he’d most like to sack in the NFL was Tom Brady. After Washington clinched the NFC East with a Week 17 win over Philadelphia, Young, the No. 2 pick in the draft, reiterated his desire to take a crack at the former Michigan man, leaving the field while yelling, “I want Tom!” (Brady refused to engage. “He’s obviously a great young player,” he said.) Then there was the issue of Brady’s counterpart. After missing 2 ½ games with a calf injury—and most of the previous two seasons with a gruesome leg injury that required 17 surgeries—Washington’s Alex…

5 min.

THE LEGEND GROWS

SEAN MURPHY-BUNTING is a mere 23 years old, and just 21 months ago he was plucked out of Central Michigan in the second round of the 2019 draft. The cornerback spent his rookie year as a part-time starter on Bruce Arians’s first Buccaneers team, a group that hung around a while during the season but missed out on the playoffs after consecutive losses to end the year. In short, he really didn’t know what was coming when Tom Brady became a teammate. Now, he knows. “He shows up to meetings early. He sits in the front every meeting. He always has his notepad, whether it’s a five-minute team meeting or a 30-minute team meeting,” Murphy-Bunting says. “His habits are just so good that they rub off on everybody else.” During…

8 min.

ALL RIGHT NOW

THE BUCCANEERS’ motivation for signing Tom Brady was about a whole lot more than just adding a quarterback. General manager Jason Licht needed all of five words to explain that to me back in March, four days after No. 12 put pen to paper and committed to moving more than a thousand miles south. “The standard has just risen,” he said. The hope, Licht continued, was that the QB who had won six titles in New England would bring something and leave that something behind even after he was done playing. That the bar in Tampa would be raised and Brady’s ways would rub off on his new teammates. That all the talent the Bucs had would be taken to another level, because Brady’s way—a relentless, unbending drive to win…

18 min.

Master Class

LED BY THEIR LEGENDARY QUARTERBACK, THE BUCCANEERS DELIVERED A COMPLETE TEAM PERFORMANCE \TO UPSET THE CHIEFS 31–9 AND BECOME SUPER BOWL CHAMPS BY THE last day of November, the Buccaneers’ grand football experiment was tilting closer and closer to failure. The Bucs—who had taken a young, talented roster and added the most accomplished quarterback of all time, albeit near the end of his career—had dropped three out of their last four, sputtering on offense in a Monday-night loss to the Rams, then falling to the favorites from Kansas City. Both defeats took place at Raymond James Stadium, the future site of Super Bowl LV. Tampa Bay trudged into its bye week later than usual, 12 weeks into the strangest of seasons. Beyond the pandemic, racial unrest and a country divided—all…

1 min.

BY THE NUMBERS

13 Years since Tampa Bay’s last postseason appearance, which had been the second-longest active playoff drought in the NFL. 3.6 Yards per carry allowed by the Bucs in 2020, giving them the best mark in the league for the second year in a row. 8 Consecutive road wins, including playoffs, the longest such streak in franchise history. 95.1 Tampa Bay’s scoring percentage on red-zone drives in the regular season, the highest in the NFL. 1,006 Receiving yards by Mike Evans in 2020, making him the first player in NFL history to surpass 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first seven seasons. He also had 13 touchdown catches this year, a career high. 40 Touchdown passes thrown by Tom Brady in 2020, the most ever by a player in his…

2 min.

ALL-TIME TEAM

FULLBACK MIKE ALSTOTT 1996 to 2006 As versatile a fullback as any, ever, the three-time All-Pro was a punishing blocker and a skilled runner and receiver who scored 71 career TDs. DEFENSIVE END LEE ROY SELMON 1976 to ’84 The first-ever draft pick of the Bucs possessed a rare combination of power and speed. Despite being the focus of opponents’ blocking schemes, he collected 78 ½ sacks and forced 28 ½ fumbles on the way to the Hall of Fame. CORNERBACK RONDE BARBER 1997 to 2012 The only NFL corner to start 200 consecutive games, the three-time All-Pro holds franchise records for games played (241), interceptions (47) and defensive scores (12). SAFETY JOHN LYNCH 1993 to 2003 The two-time All-Pro was nicknamed the Closer by coordinator Monte Kiffin because he…

3 min.

TAMPA’S TOP MOMENTS

Oct. 19, 2008, St. Petersburg CLOSING THE SOX David Price would win a Cy Young as an ace with the Rays in 2012, but in 2008 he was their surprise bullpen weapon. Just five weeks after making his major league debut, the No. 1 pick in the 2007 MLB draft recorded the tense final four outs in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series to close the door on the Red Sox. With the 3–1 victory, Tampa Bay advanced to the World Series for the first time in franchise history. Jan. 26, 2003, San Diego BROOKS’S DAGGER Hall of Fame linebacker Derrick Brooks sealed the Bucs’ first NFL title with his 44-yard interception return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. His score was one of three by the dominant…

13 min.

SPIRIT OF ’76

THE PRACTICE field on which the 1976 Buccaneers first gathered is now a lumpy savanna where untended palmetto trees stand off to the side like backups wearing blown-out Afros. This is the spot where the members of the least talented team in NFL history first looked askance at one other, realizing that the season ahead might not go so well. The crickets still screech at the heat, and Tampa International Airport still rumbles in the distance. But in ’76 there weren’t as many trees between the field and the runways, so the players could see the team plane from the practice field. It was a 16-year-old Boeing 720 that had been acquired on the cheap that bicentennial summer by thrifty Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse, and it had as many functional…

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