Buccaneers Coming Home To Tampa For SuperBowl.

Not thinking about law or tech today. I have been a season ticket holder for the Tampa Bay Bucs (formerly known as the Tampa Bay Yucks) since 1976, and have attended most of those home games. I can't claim that I stayed past half time for many of them, and I only really enjoyed one season throughout, in 2002, when they won the Super Bowl for the first and only time. But, in a year when a Pandemic has been the big news, and when political protest has been a part of the game, and too much money has been thrown at too many young people unprepared to manage it, I am still moved by this year and this team. My 1976 Bucco Bruce jacket will be coming out of the closet, even though I can't afford to go to the game. I will watch on TV, with millions of others, not to support the players, good or bad. I will watch because we all are living the same life or death struggle that sport imitates. We win or we lose. Our teams win or we lose. We live or we die. Ultimately, all of us wants to experience joy. When I was growing up, I watched, in 1961, on a small black and white TV, when Jim Nance uttered a famous line: "Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports... the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat... the human drama of athletic competition... This is "ABC's Wide World of Sports!" So, whether Tampa Bay experiences thrill or agony in two weeks, we will watch. We will be human.

Comments

[Rick Nielsen]

Did Jim Nance utter the famous line or was it Jim McKay?

[Richard Georges]

It was McKay, of course. Old man brain fart. I have corrected it. Thanks Rick