The NFL Scouting Combine will kick off on Tuesday and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have several dozen members of their football staff on hand in Indianapolis to take advantage of the week of in-depth player analysis.
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League representatives have been convening for this joint draft scouting opportunity since the early '80s, and they've been heading to Indy since 1987. These days, 330 NFL prospects are invited to the annual event, and media members attend in even greater numbers. It's become quite a show.
But even before the Combine became one of the NFL's high-profile events it was always good for generating news, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and – more often than not – hyperbole.