On Sunday, the Chicago Bears will visit Raymond James Stadium for the first time in a decade. That's an unusual drought for a team that used to make annual trips to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' home.
The Buccaneers and Bears were division foes from 1977-2001, as part of the then-five team NFC Central. During the expansion and realignment of 2002, the Buccaneers left their four Central partners and joined the new NFC South, and their old division was renamed the NFC North. Perhaps homesick, the Bucs would go back to Chicago that same year…or to be exact, Champaign, Illinois, where they won their regular-season finale and locked down a first-round bye on the way to Super Bowl glory.