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Sports of The Times: In Trying to Help Female Fans, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Are the Ones Who Need Assistance

Well, this must be a relief for all the women out there who lose sleep during football season, wondering, what delicious snack can I whip up for this weekend’s N.F.L. games, and what is the appropriate (and possibly color-coordinated) handmade centerpiece to accompany it?

The Buccaneers on Thursday announced a new initiative — born from a social sensibility circa 1951 — that they said would cater to the N.F.L.’s female fans. The program, dubbed RED, probably for the faces on those who now are having to answer for it, has suggestions for what it called “culinary creations” and craft projects that might help meld a woman’s interests with her (unsophisticated) interest in football.