Tampa Bay Buccaneers Milestones

Order these Tampa Bay Buccaneers franchise moments by the year they happened. You place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Milestones
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How to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers history timeline

Each card is a Buccaneers milestone with a short description below its headline, and you order them by year. One card starts on the line, its year in view. For each new card, choose a gap among the ones placed. Land it in the correct gap and the year shows; land it anywhere else and the card moves where it belongs and costs one of your three lives.

The Bucs began as one of the worst teams in the league, and the deck covers that rough start, long dry spells, and championship teams built first on defense and then on a famous veteran quarterback. Draft busts, contract refusals and coaching changes are spread across the deck and easy to misplace. The uniform and stadium cards make good anchors when you're unsure.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 28 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Tampa Bay awarded an expansion franchise The NFL announced its newest team would play in Tampa, two years before it ever took the field
  • Went 0-14 in the debut season John McKay's expansion Buccaneers, led by No. 1 overall pick Lee Roy Selmon, lost every game of the inaugural campaign
  • First win in franchise history After 26 straight losses to open the franchise, Tampa Bay finally beat the Saints in New Orleans in December of year two
  • Drafted Doug Williams The Grambling quarterback arrived in the first round to lead the young franchise
  • Worst to first: won the NFC Central A 10-6 breakthrough and a playoff win over the Eagles came in just the fourth season
  • Shut out in the NFC Championship Game A 9-0 January loss to the Rams left the Bucs one game short of the Super Bowl
  • Doug Williams left for the USFL A bitter contract dispute drove away the quarterback and kicked off a streak of fourteen straight losing seasons
  • John McKay's final season The only head coach the franchise had ever known stepped down after year nine
  • Bo Jackson refused to sign The Bucs took the Heisman winner first overall, but he chose baseball and never played a down for them
  • Drafted Vinny Testaverde first overall Tampa Bay held the top pick for a second straight year and used it on the Heisman-winning Miami quarterback
  • Drafted Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks Two future Hall of Famers arrived in a single first round, months after Malcolm Glazer bought the team
  • Hired Tony Dungy The Vikings' defensive coordinator took over and installed the famed Tampa 2 defense
  • Retired the creamsicles and returned to the playoffs New pewter-and-red uniforms debuted, and a 10-6 team won its first playoff game in eighteen years
  • Raymond James Stadium opened The Bucs moved into a new home featuring a pirate ship in one end zone
  • Bert Emanuel's overturned catch A January replay ruling helped the Rams edge the Bucs 11-6 in the NFC Championship Game
  • Traded for Jon Gruden Tampa Bay sent Oakland four premium draft picks and $8 million in cash for its new head coach
  • Won Super Bowl XXXVII The defense intercepted Rich Gannon five times to rout Gruden's old Raiders team 48-21
  • Fired Jon Gruden The franchise's only Super Bowl-winning coach to that point was dismissed in January after a late-season collapse
  • Traded for Darrelle Revis Tampa Bay sent the Jets a first-round pick for the star cornerback
  • Drafted Mike Evans The Texas A&M receiver went seventh overall and immediately began a historic run of 1,000-yard seasons
  • Drafted Jameis Winston first overall The Florida State Heisman winner became the fourth No. 1 overall pick in franchise history
  • Hired Bruce Arians In the veteran coach's first Tampa season, Jameis Winston threw for 5,109 yards with 30 interceptions
  • Signed Tom Brady The six-time champion left New England for Tampa, and Rob Gronkowski soon followed via trade
  • Won Super Bowl LV at home The Bucs routed the Chiefs 31-9 as the first team ever to play a Super Bowl in its own stadium
  • Tom Brady retired for 40 days The quarterback announced his retirement in February, then returned in March for one final season
  • Signed Baker Mayfield Weeks after Brady retired for good, the former No. 1 overall pick signed a one-year prove-it deal
  • Baker Mayfield threw 41 touchdown passes In his second Tampa season, only Brady's franchise record stood above his total
  • Drafted Emeka Egbuka The Bucs took the Ohio State receiver 19th overall despite an already loaded receiving corps

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