| Tampa Bay Buccaneers | |||||
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| Established April 24, 1974[1] First season: 1976 Play in Raymond James Stadium Tampa, Florida Headquartered in One Buccaneer Place Tampa, Florida[2] | |||||
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National Football League (1976–present)
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| Team colors | Buccaneer red, pewter, orange, black[3][4][5] | ||||
| Fight song | "Hey! Hey! Tampa Bay!" | ||||
| Mascot | Captain Fear | ||||
| Website | buccaneers.com | ||||
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| Owner(s) | Glazer family[a] | ||||
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| General manager | Jason Licht | ||||
| President | Darcie Glazer Kassewitz | ||||
| Head coach | Todd Bowles | ||||
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League championships (2)
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| Conference championships (2) | |||||
| Division championships (9) | |||||
| Playoff appearances (14) | |||||
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) South division. They joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team, along with the Seattle Seahawks, and played its first season in the American Football Conference (AFC) West division.
Prior to the 1977 season, Tampa Bay switched conferences and divisions with Seattle, becoming a member of the NFC Central division. The Seahawks eventually rejoined the NFC in 2002, leaving the Buccaneers as the only NFL team not to play in their original conference. As a result of the league's realignment prior to the 2002 season, the Buccaneers joined three former NFC West teams to form the NFC South. The team is owned by the Glazer family and plays its home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.
The Buccaneers have won two Super Bowl championships and, along with the Baltimore Ravens, are the only two NFL franchises that are undefeated in multiple Super Bowl appearances. They were regarded as a perennial losing franchise for most of their first two decades due to suffering 26 consecutive losses in their first two seasons (including a winless inaugural season) and 14 consecutive losing seasons from 1983 to 1996—the most in NFL history—contributing to their league-worst overall winning percentage of .406.
Despite these early struggles, Tampa Bay is the first post-merger expansion team to clinch a division title, win a playoff game, and host a conference championship, all of which they accomplished by their fourth season in 1979. The team's image improved by the time of their first championship in 2002, also the first for any of the six organizations built after the merger,[b] but they would not win another playoff game until their second Super Bowl championship season in 2020.
- ^ "Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Facts". ProFootballHOF.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
- ^ "Contact the Bucs". Buccaneers.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
- ^ "BUCCANEERS REVEAL NEW UNIFORMS FOR 2020 SEASON" (PDF). Buccaneers.com/Media (Press release). NFL Enterprises, LLC. April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
Tampa Bay returns to the traditional deeper, richer red to accompany the modern pewter hue as its primary colors while including orange highlights to honor the team's origin and restoring black as an accent color.
- ^ "BUCCANEERS UNVEIL NEW LOGO AND COLORS (4/8/1997) – HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS" (PDF). 2023 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Media Guide (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. August 7, 2023. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
The team unveils its eagerly anticipated new logo and color scheme at a noon downtown ceremony. The new logo, consisting of a red pirate flag with a skull and crossed swords, draws instant rave reviews. The team colors are Buccaneer red, pewter, black and orange.
- ^ "Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Capsule" (PDF). 2022 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. July 20, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
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