The_Philster
07-11-2003, 08:00 PM
It's a new day in Tampa Bay. And, boy, could this team ever be something if it could just win a cold-weather game. Or if it could just on the road in the playoffs. In Philadelphia. Uh, wait.
In a span of a little more than a month, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers erased every dark cloud in the franchise's mostly sordid 27-year history. OK, about all of them. How 'bout a kickoff return for a touchdown? At least the Bucs still have something to shoot for.
But for the first time, the entire NFL is gunning for the Bucs. How will Tampa Bay respond? The Bucs can hope it's nothing like the offseason, in which three players (Kenyatta Walker, Dwight Smith and Michael Pittman) ran into trouble with the law. The Pittman situation is the most serious, forcing the Bucs to make a deal with Arizona to get Thomas Jones....
more (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/2003/preview/buccaneers/)
In a span of a little more than a month, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers erased every dark cloud in the franchise's mostly sordid 27-year history. OK, about all of them. How 'bout a kickoff return for a touchdown? At least the Bucs still have something to shoot for.
But for the first time, the entire NFL is gunning for the Bucs. How will Tampa Bay respond? The Bucs can hope it's nothing like the offseason, in which three players (Kenyatta Walker, Dwight Smith and Michael Pittman) ran into trouble with the law. The Pittman situation is the most serious, forcing the Bucs to make a deal with Arizona to get Thomas Jones....
more (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/2003/preview/buccaneers/)