The Great Story of Tampa Bay Buccaneers Football 2025: Before the beginning of football through the Bruce Ariens era Kindle Edition

Before the beginning of football through the Bruce Ariens eraThis 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 founding of the Bucs as the newest team in the National Football League. 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 NF. 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.This book would like to go back to the AFL because that’s when football was at its greatest, but Tampa Bay came along seventeen years after the AFL played its first game. You’ll find we do take a peek at the beginning of football just to get you warmed up.After talking about how primitive man played football, this book quickly moves on to describe the beginning of football in the US and it recounts the first "American Football Game" in 1867. From there, the progression includes college football teams loving the new sport and their graduates looking for a place to play football after college. Eventually all of this build-up in the 1920’s to the beginning of the National Football League and of course the American Football League (AFL) in 1960 and then the expansion which 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.It seems like yesterday but for those pros trying to create a league in the 1920’s out of nothing, we might have gotten nothing without their hard work. And of course, this great book about the Buccaneers would have been nothing without Culverhouse’s decision to create a team in Tampa Bay. After starting out 0-26 with 26 straight defeats, 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 the conference 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 moments in Buccaneers Football. This Bucs first book takes the reader through stories about their 12 coaches to great stories about the 45 seasons worth of great games (708 games ) with 278 great wins. The book often stops in time and talks about a particular great player such as Lee Roy Salmon, Ricky Bell, Doug Williams, and of course Tom Brady. The Bucs picked up their first NFL Championship 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.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. Read more