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The sports world was treated to a shock
Sunday in San Diego when the Tampa Bay Bucs smacked the Oakland
Raiders 48-21. Not many outside of the immediate Tampa Bay area
felt this could be a reality.
For the fans of this franchise, a long time
coming. This is the same franchise who lost their first 26 games.
This is the same franchise that drafted Booker Reese in the first
round. Who? That’s what we said when we first heard of
the pick. This is the same franchise which allowed franchise
player Doug Williams to leave, telling him he ‘wasn’t
that good’. This is the same franchise to draft Bo Jackson
in the first round after he told them repeatedly not to do so,
for he would not play for them, he didn’t.
This franchise was run by billionaire tight
wad Hugh Culverhouse. Culverhouse had the 4th highest profiting
team in the NFL, and the lowest payroll. What did he do with
the money? His family in court papers alleged he spent it on
young women. Many young women. They still have not forgiven him.
For these long suffering fans, I am so pleased.
They have survived Ray Perkins, Richard Williamson, and an RV
salesman from Atlanta named Leeman Bennett. They have survived
threats of losing the team to Baltimore, Los Angeles and parts
in between.
For the fans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Sunday made it all worth going through. They did not burn buildings,
overturn police cars, nor smash windows. They acted with dignity,
like they had been there before.
Here’s looking at you, the classiest
fans in the world.
That's
how I see it!
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Webb's
World ~ 01/22/2003
