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Bucs' Winston 'patient and gracious' for Publix photo that went viral, fan says

It’s no shock that Jameis Winston might dine on crab legs from Publix occasionally. A notorious incident from 2014 let the world in on that secret.

So Rory Lawrence, of Tampa, was surprised when a photo of him and Winston — taken at a Publix after Sunday’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ game — went viral on social media after Lawrence posted it on Facebook.

Surprised, that is, until he realized he just blabbed that Winston was purchasing crab legs.

“I mainly want to let everyone know that Jameis is cool and I didn’t know that this thing would go viral like it did and to let him know that I apologize,” said Lawrence, founder of the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival.