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Here come the Buccaneers to London (again)

Two years ago the Bucs UK were fortunate enough to see their heroes play at Wembley Stadium. Club members who had long hoped for the chance to travel across the Atlantic to see the Pewter and Red take the field suddenly had the chance to do so without even looking…

The ups and downs of being Josh Freeman

Right now everyone loves No.5. A great finish to the season, wins in the final two games and the future looking so bright that Jon Gruden has passed his shades on to someone else. But it hasn’t always been that way for the Bucs’ young signal-caller as a quick…

All these athlete quarterbacks who keep failing

We are just over two months away from the NFL draft which will take place whether there is a CBA agreement or not. All you need are owners and new players for this one. And if there is a lockout, then you can bet every player drafted will make some…

The curse of Twitter

Jay Cutler comes out of the NFC Championship game injured and immediately the stories start about whether he was really hurt or not. The curse of Twitter now strikes the dumb American sports jock as it has done over here in the UK.

Because out come the likes…

Two weeks into the off-season and bored already

When do pitchers and catchers report?

Cold Weather Football
It seems to be an accepted fact that football games played in freezing conditions is just ideal. Ideal for who? Perhaps Buccaneer fans have been spoiled by watching games in beautiful warm weather in Tampa, but I find the…

Where do the Bucs stand amongst the NFL elite?

It was amusing the other day to look back to September to check out Pro Football Weekly’s Power Rankings before the 2010 season began. The Bucs were down in 30th (they ended in 12th), Dallas were 4th (21st) and Pittsburgh 17th (3rd). Just goes to show what most pundits really…

My award nominations for the 2010 season

As we reach that time of the year when everyone in the Bucs UK and on BUCPOWER.COM gets to vote in the nine different award categories, time also therefore for my annual article in which I make my own nominations and the reasons behind them.

OFFENSE - with honourable…

Stuffing the turkey and the Seahawks

Twas the night after Christmas and a not a soul was stirring. Well not in the Seattle locker room anyway.

They had just flown across country for a game that turned out to be meaningless to their chances to win the NFC Worst, and ran into a young and…

Headmaster Goodell speaks at the end of term assembly

Sit up straight class! I am going to finish this register and the end of term report and then you can start the holidays.

Right where was I? Jones .... Blank .... Biascotti .... Wilf ... Glazer .. nice work this term by the way Glazer ...... Benson and…

How do put a real downer on Christmas

When the ancient Romans lost a battle, they would execute one in every 10 of their survivors to teach the remainder to fight harder next time. Hence the term “decimate”.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers went way past one in ten in terms of defensive losses. Actually try about six…