TAMPA — Come halftime on Sunday, Doug Williams will proudly take his place in the Bucs' Ring of Honor, a moment he wasn't always sure would come his way.
"At the end of the day, you talk about honoring players that have been in the organization. I thought one day that it might've come," said Williams, 60, who took a franchise that lost its first 26 games and led the Bucs to the 1979 NFC Championship Game. "You don't know when it's coming. I think when it does come, you've just got to be appreciative of it."
Williams, a first-round pick in 1978 out of Grambling, played five years with the Bucs, reaching the playoffs in three of his last four.