When fall is in the air in Tampa Bay, there isn’t much of a dead giveaway that the seasons have changed. In fact, beaches are still packed well into November, the trees don’t begin to change colors (or at all for that matter), and that 90-degree temperature reading on the thermostat still feels more like 100-plus. But there is one season noticeably present around the Bay area, and that’s football season.
The Buccaneers, for a very long time since their inaugural 1976 season, were a very bad football team until they turned things around in the late 1990s.