TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will resurrect "Fitzmagic" for at least one week, with coach Dirk Koetter naming Ryan Fitzpatrick the starting quarterback against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday (1 p.m. ET, Fox).
For those who have experienced Fitzmagic on a personal level -- long before beards were flying off the shelves of costume stores and tracksuits and gold chains became Tampa's most desirable accessories -- they think it's real and it should continue.
Here are some of their tales:
'What the hell do we have here?'
Harvard football coach Tim Murphy got his first glimpse of Fitzmagic during Fitzpatrick's freshman year in 2001.