They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ), and joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( often shortened as the Bucs ) are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U. S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ) – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West.

Two shortened variations, " Bucs " and " Buccos ", are also commonly used for both the American football team and MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps.

The Kansas City Chiefs, Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos, Houston Texans, Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals and Indianapolis Colts are all teams who have recently received a significant amount of public financing to either construct or upgrade the stadiums in which they currently play.

The switch allowed WTVT to continue broadcasting the majority of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers games, as they were ( and still are ) part of the NFC.

It also carries other sports programming on a case-by-case basis when there are scheduling conflicts with sports events on its sister stations, WDAE ( 620 AM ) and WHNZ ( 1250 AM ), which hold the rights to Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa Bay Storm and University of Florida broadcasts.

Shelton State's sports teams are called the Buccaneers and their colors are gold and emerald.

The Des Moines Buccaneers are a Tier 1 junior ice hockey team of the United States Hockey League ( USHL ).

They are: the Calgary Gators, the Calgary Wolfpack, the Central Alberta Buccaneers, the Lloydminster Vandals ( the only team to be based outside the province of Alberta ), the Grande Prairie Drillers, the Edmonton Stallions, the Edmonton Garrison Army ( Canadian Forces Base Edmonton ), and the Edmonton Renegades.

In 1991, the NFL announced plans to add two teams, its first expansion since the 1976 addition of the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

And in the first two games of the 2003 season ( both home losses to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New England Patriots ), The Eagles wore white jerseys with white pants.

He began his career as the first round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1978.

The first half ended with the Rams leading 5 – 3 on a Jeff Wilkins field goal and after a bad snap by the Buccaneers went through their own end zone for a safety.

In 1976, The Buccaneers lost their first 26 games.

They then beat the Detroit Lions in the first round of the playoffs, but lost to the Buccaneers, 14 – 13.

* December 11 – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL win their very first game against the New Orleans Saints.

The name became universally adopted later in 1684 when the first English translation of Alexandre Exquemelin's book The Buccaneers of America was published.

" Mad Mac " brought the Chicago Bears back in the first game following the 1987 NFL players strike to defeat the Buccaneers, 27 – 26.

* December 11 – Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their second NFL season win their first ever game over the New Orleans Saints.

The Buccaneers defeated the Raiders by the score of 48 – 21, winning their first ever Super Bowl.

It was the first time in Super Bowl history that the league's # 1 ranked offense ( Raiders ) was pitted against the league's # 1 ranked defense ( Buccaneers ).

For most of their history, the Buccaneers were regarded as losers, only making the playoffs 3 times in their first 20 seasons.

The Buccaneers defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 31-6, and the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10, in the playoffs, to make the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history.

Aided with Pittman's gains of 6 and 19 yards, the Buccaneers scored their first touchdown on a 2-yard run from fullback Mike Alstott, increasing their lead 13 – 3.

The Buccaneers became the first ( and, as of Super Bowl XLVI, only ) team in Super Bowl history to score three defensive touchdowns.

Her father was head of the Physical Education Department at Los Angeles City College and had played American football professionally in the 1920s with the Los Angeles Buccaneers of the first American Football League.

The first regular-season game at the Metrodome was the 1982 opener on September 12, when the Vikings defeated Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 17-10.

* September 8, 2003: The Eagles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers competed on Monday Night Football in the first regular-season NFL game at Lincoln Financial Field.

Young signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1985 after being the first player selected in the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft of USFL and CFL Players.

The Buccaneers selected University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde first overall in the 1987 NFL Draft because Young was deemed a bust, and he was traded to the San Francisco 49ers on April 24, 1987, to serve as a backup to Joe Montana.

Owens caught his first TD pass with Buffalo in a 33-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on September 20, 2009.

Summerall and Madden were first teamed on a 1979 broadcast of a Minnesota Vikings – Tampa Bay Buccaneers game.

After playing college football at the University of Miami where he was a defensive standout, Sapp was drafted into the NFL by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the 1995 draft ( 12th pick overall ).

The expansion draft was held March 30 – 31, 1976, with Seattle and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers alternating picks for rounds selecting unprotected players from the other 26 teams in the league.

League president Gary Davidson got Wheeler in touch with former New England Patriots player and executive Rommie Loudd, who was fronting for a group of Orlando businessmen who had recently failed in their bid to get an NFL expansion team ( what became the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ).

The NFC North was also called the NFC Central from 1970-2001 ( the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were members from 1977 until 2002 due to the expansion of the Houston Texans.

In 1975, Wolf joined the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers as vice-president of operations.

When the NFL awarded Tampa Bay an expansion team, which became the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, WTOG dropped Braves games and spent the next 13 seasons, between 1977 and 1989, airing Major League Baseball games from across the country on a daily basis ( with the exception of Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays ), as MLB Network does today.

Returning to the NFL the following year, Rauch served as backfield coach for the Atlanta Falcons, but then resigned on February 18, 1976, to become offensive coordinator of the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

After that season, Hanratty was selected in the 1976 expansion draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

He followed Ron Wolf to the expansion Buccaneers, where he held the title of Director of Player Personnel for the team's first eight years.