Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Current season
	Established April 24, 1974; First season: 1976; Play in Raymond James Stadium; Tampa, Florida; Headquartered in One Buccaneer Place; Tampa, Florida
Tampa Bay Buccaneers logo	Tampa Bay Buccaneers wordmark
Logo	Wordmark
League/conference affiliations
	National Football League (1976–present) American Football Conference (1976) AFC West (1976); ; National Football Conference (1977–present) NFC Central (1977–2001); NFC South (2002–present); ;
	Current uniform
Team colors	Buccaneer red, pewter, orange, black;
Fight song	"Hey! Hey! Tampa Bay!"
Mascot	Captain Fear
Personnel
Owner(s)	Glazer family
Chairman	Bryan Glazer; Joel Glazer; Edward Glazer
General manager	Jason Licht
Head coach	Todd Bowles
Team history
	Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976–present);
Team nicknames
	The Bucs;
Championships
	League championships (2); Super Bowl championships (2); 2002 (XXXVII), 2020 (LV);
	Conference championships (2) NFC: 2002, 2020;
	Division championships (9) NFC Central: 1979, 1981, 1999; NFC South: 2002, 2005, 2007, 2021, 2022, 2023;
Playoff appearances (14)
	NFL: 1979, 1981, 1982, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023;
Home fields
	Tampa Stadium (1976–1997); Raymond James Stadium (1998–present);

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The club joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team, along with the Seattle Seahawks, and played its first season in the American Football Conference (AFC) West division. Prior to the 1977 season, Tampa Bay switched conferences and divisions with Seattle, becoming a member of the NFC Central division. The Seahawks eventually rejoined the NFC in 2002, leaving the Buccaneers as the only NFL team not to play in their original conference. As a result of the league's realignment prior to the 2002 season, the Buccaneers joined three former NFC West teams to form the NFC South. The club is owned by the Glazer family and plays its home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

The Buccaneers have won two Super Bowl championships and, along with the Baltimore Ravens, are the only two NFL franchises who are undefeated in multiple Super Bowl appearances. They were regarded as a perennial losing franchise for most of their first two decades due to suffering 26 consecutive losses in their first two seasons (including a winless inaugural season) and 14 consecutive losing seasons from 1983 to 1996—the most in NFL history—contributing to their league-worst overall winning percentage at .406. Despite these early struggles, Tampa Bay is the first post-merger expansion team to clinch a division title, win a playoff game, and host a conference championship, all of which they accomplished by their fourth season in 1979. The team's image improved by the time of their first championship in 2002, also the first for any of the six organizations built after the merger,^[a] but they would not win another playoff game until their second Super Bowl championship season in 2020.

^ "Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Facts". ProFootballHOF.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
^ "Contact the Bucs". Buccaneers.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
^ "BUCCANEERS REVEAL NEW UNIFORMS FOR 2020 SEASON" (PDF). Buccaneers.com/Media (Press release). NFL Enterprises, LLC. April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020. Tampa Bay returns to the traditional deeper, richer red to accompany the modern pewter hue as its primary colors while including orange highlights to honor the team's origin and restoring black as an accent color.
^ "BUCCANEERS UNVEIL NEW LOGO AND COLORS (4/9/1997) – HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS" (PDF). 2023 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Media Guide (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved February 4, 2024. The team unveils its eagerly anticipated new logo and color scheme at a noon downtown ceremony. The new logo, consisting of a red pirate flag with a skull and crossed swords, draws instant rave reviews. The team colors are Buccaneer red, pewter, black and orange.
^ "Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Capsule" (PDF). 2022 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved February 4, 2024.

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[1] "Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Facts". ProFootballHOF.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2017.

[2] "Contact the Bucs". Buccaneers.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved September 6, 2021.

[3] "BUCCANEERS REVEAL NEW UNIFORMS FOR 2020 SEASON" (PDF). Buccaneers.com/Media (Press release). NFL Enterprises, LLC. April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020. Tampa Bay returns to the traditional deeper, richer red to accompany the modern pewter hue as its primary colors while including orange highlights to honor the team's origin and restoring black as an accent color.

[4] "BUCCANEERS UNVEIL NEW LOGO AND COLORS (4/9/1997) – HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS" (PDF). 2023 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Media Guide (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved February 4, 2024. The team unveils its eagerly anticipated new logo and color scheme at a noon downtown ceremony. The new logo, consisting of a red pirate flag with a skull and crossed swords, draws instant rave reviews. The team colors are Buccaneer red, pewter, black and orange.

[5] "Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Capsule" (PDF). 2022 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved February 4, 2024.

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