Trending News Classics:Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2002 Super Bowl XXXVII Champions!!! Originally Published on 3/14/17, 5:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers became a franchise in 1976 and didn't win a single game going 0-14 that season. They would carry a 12 game losing streak in the 1977 season where they would have a combined 0-26 record. Tampa Bay epitomized horrible, they were laughingstocks for many years, and went through losing seasons after losing seasons. The Bucs were victims to teams with winning records and teams with sub .500 records.The Bucs didn't make the playoffs until the late 90's when Tony Dungy was their head coach. The Bucs made the playoffs in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 but had problems winning games under 40 degrees in temperature. In 1997, the Tampa Bay Bucs made the playoffs as a Wildcard team. The Bucs (10-6) were the 4th seeded team that hosted a Wildcard against the 5th seeded Detroit Lions (9-7). The Bucs dominated the game on excellent throwing by Trent Dilfer who threw a TD pass to Horace Copeland and excellent running by Mike Alstott who ran ...