ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The excitement in Tampa Bay for this Buccaneers team as they look to win their first Super Bowl since the 2002 season.
However, not everyone in the Bay-area is pulling for the Bucs in Sunday’s NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers Sunday. Family and friends of Tampa Bay-native Marquez Valdes-Scantling will be pulling for the green and gold.
“He had his Bucs jersey, he wore it everywhere he went, carried a football,” Marquez’s father Marcellus Scantling said. “We just always rooted for the hometown.”
“I grew up watching the Buccaneers play,” Valdes-Scantling said.