From the Ground Up: How the 0-26 Buccaneers Built More than Just a Football Team | The Timeline

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[whataboutrob]

The wonder of NFL football. Fans showing up to welcome their one win team (after losing 26). Absolutely love this game.

[mrjinkorea]

Now they've got two Lombardi trophies while the Browns, Bengals, Lions, Cardinals, Falcons, Chargers, Jags, Titans, Bills, Texans, Vikings and Panthers are still looking for their first!

[stevebryant]

So the Bucs become the leagues 27th team, hire a coach with 27 years experience, take 27 games to win their first, take 27 years to win a SB, by putting up 27 points on Philadelphia, then beat the Oakland oh yeah, 27 points. Anybody else, besides me, believe in lucky numbers?

[obitou]

John McKay was ahead of his time with the charisma in football. I could listen to his one liners all day🤣

[SkipAd_Vegas]

I've been a Buccaneers fan since day one. When I was a little little kid it was so hard to keep being a fan and not simply jump ship for a much more successful team. To this day I tell people you will never find a more loyal fan than an old school Tampa Bay Buccaneer. #GOBUCS #BUC4LIFE #GOTB12

[erichouston]

As a bucs fan for over 20 years, I never thought our team would ever get this much coverage as it has lately. We've been thorough some dark times, let's enjoy this!

[kcmerced]

REPORTER: "Coach McKay, Ricky Bell carried the ball forty-seven times today in your victory over Detroit. How can he do that?"
COACH McKAY: "Well, it's not that heavy..."

[A-small-amount-of-peas]

Shout out to all those Bucs fans that have been there since the start. Talk about a trial by fire you guys had to go through

[TheAlexMassaad]

Love the Star Wars score during the Saints sequence seeing the film was released that same year in 1977!

[jeffpittel]

"Rebuilding a football team takes time", , , the Lions have been at it for 6+ decades, , , LOL.

[thenumberquelve]

Seeing the two writers of the Buccaneers' fight song putting energy into the performance of it all these years later is just so wholesome.

[sethmaki]

"We will be competitive. Maybe not in this century, but we will be competitive." Except for a couple outlier seasons like 1979, those words turned out to be pretty prophetic.

[kyledodson]

Born in Tampa in 89. Started liking football around 8 or 9. A few years later I got to see the 2001 - 2004 run. Made me a true fan. Now after 2020 and having the Bucs win the NFC south and having the Bolts win 3 cups. I’m so proud of my city :)

[EvilSnipa]

The 79 season was awesome! We setup a tent outside Tampa Stadium and spent 2 nights for tickets to the championship game.One of my favorite Memories.

[brettrobinson]

They DID hit a homerun with their first pick...the immortal LEE ROY SELMON!

[israelalarid]

I'm from San Diego Ca, I followed Football in 1995, I watched the Chargers go to the Super Bowl. I never Identified with them, 2 yrs later, I became a Tampa Bay Buc fan. Ive been a Die hard Buc fan for over 20yrs, they were born when I was born 1976, I've been so fortunate to see our beloved team win 2 super bowls. Ive gone every 8 yrs when the Bucs play against the Chargers, and its great to see our Bucs beat the crap out of the Chargers because I get to Brag that we're a super Bowl winning team, go Pewter Power Baby, bucs for Life.

[conlanding]

When John McKay was hired by the Buccaneers in 1976, he brought a reputation as one of college football's best coaches out there who took a chance and made the jump into the NFL after winning 4 National Titles at USC. He had somewhat of an Urban Meyer persona that if you could win in college, you can do it in the NFL. John McKay lost his first 26 games as Buccaneers coach and was given the time to build the franchise from the ground up unlike Meyer who rubbed people the wrong way from the day took the Jacksonville Jaguars job in 2021 and not even finishing his first full season on the job. John McKay proved that he could win in the NFL and by his 4th season on the job, the Buccaneers had a winning season, a division title, a playoff win falling a game short of the Super Bowl.

[JoelElRican]

Stories like these make me proud to be a Bucs fans. This team has been through a hell of a lot of losing, which makes the winning that much sweeter...
Go Bucs!

[vestruxdynamic]

No team ever wishes to go winless in a season, but in time everyone looks back with fond memories in being part of something bigger than themselves during their prime years. That something that can't be taken away from you.

[tyrone-tydavis]

A woman I dated worked for Hugh Culverhouse, the original owner of the Bucs. She said he was so cheap that if the team landed for an away game before check in time at the hotel, the team would be dropped off at the mall with their luggage and they had to hang around the mall until check in time came.