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00:00News which is broken in the last hour, the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Hugh Culverhouse, died of lung cancer today. He was 75 years old.
00:13Culverhouse was one of the wealthiest men in America. He helped the NFL make a ton of money by lending his financial expertise to league business matters.
00:21Tampa Bay fans only wish that Culverhouse's own team could have been as successful.
00:30So he Culverhouse got lung cancer and it was tragic. Upon his death, the family has decided to sell the franchise.
00:41The team is officially on the market.
00:44The only offer on the table right now is from Tampa businessman Tommy Shannon and the founders of the Outback Steakhouse.
00:50The Angelos offer may require a relocation to Maryland.
00:54Negotiations for a franchise, people are tight lipped.
00:58There was talk about moving the team to Baltimore.
01:01There was a lot of fear.
01:03You guys here to make an offer?
01:04And here come the Glazers.
01:06Malcolm Glazer leading the way with his sons at his side.
01:12The first impression of the Glazers meeting them as a group was, you know, young.
01:17The brothers are very young. Naive.
01:22I was 31.
01:23Joel was 29.
01:25Yeah.
01:26With my father, age meant nothing, ever.
01:28Because if you go to his background, at age 15, he took over the family jewelry store.
01:33It was a small jewelry store.
01:34He didn't graduate college.
01:35So his mindset was, it didn't matter what age you were, as long as you worked hard, you could do anything.
01:41My father gave us the latitude to go in and negotiate some of these things with him.
01:47In the meeting, immediately, they're very serious.
01:51They kind of wanted $150, $160 million, whatever the number was.
01:56Whatever they were asking, we put about $40 million more on the table.
02:00We thought, we need to see that you're real.
02:04We need to see a deposit, non-refundable, just to prove that you're dead serious.
02:09I think it was $10 million.
02:12Mr. Glazer pulled out the check, threw it across.
02:15He said, hey, you keep this.
02:16I don't need an agreement.
02:17This is just to show you that I want the team.
02:20This is your money.
02:23When we left that room and got together ourselves, we said, you know what?
02:27They're going to buy this team, and they did.
02:30Florida financier Malcolm Glazer bought the Bucs for a reported $192 million.
02:35A record $192 million for the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
02:41People would think, why the hell would you want to own the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
02:45The worst team in the history of sports.
02:48Everybody wants a winning team here.
02:51There aren't many cities that have 45,000 people showing up, not knowing if the team is going to win.
02:56And that's one of the reasons that we became so interested in Tampa.
03:01If that's the way the fans act when you don't win a lot, God, how do they act when you win all the time?
03:07This was an opportunity to take what was the laughing stock of the National Football League, turn it around, and make it a success.
03:18Joel, have you ever thought about when it all started for you, like when the dream was first born for you and really your family?
03:39You know, you got to go way back to the beginning.
03:49You got to go back to 1973.
03:52It's the height of the Miami Dolphins, the undefeated season.
03:56We ended up going to a Miami Dolphin playoff game.
03:59I was six years old, sitting at the very top of the stadium, the sun blurring in our eyes.
04:07From that moment on, I was hooked on football.
04:10We were all football fans, and at that time we were Dolphin fans.
04:21Except for one.
04:22And the youngest liked the Vikings.
04:25I became a Minnesota Viking fan because I liked the color purple.
04:29So I was the oddball out in my family.
04:32The day before we'd go to a Dolphin game, my brothers would be in the basement with sheets with their paint or their markers, creating these big signs so you could see them on the field.
04:42And hopefully a news camera would pick it up.
04:44The thrill is back.
04:46Got it on television, so mission accomplished.
04:49We'd have the BYFL, the Backyard Football League, ourselves and our neighbors.
04:54Didn't matter if it was 10 inches of snow out there, we'd all get together and play football.
04:58We would play knee football in our basement.
05:01Don't know quite why, but we were on our knees.
05:04They were sports fans.
05:05They loved sports.
05:08My father didn't give a damn about what anybody else thought.
05:11He'd always say, why can't we do this?
05:13And he would push us as his children.
05:16Anything you want to do, give it a shot.
05:17It doesn't make a difference.
05:18We could look at anything as long as the numbers made sense.
05:21That led us on a course to many different sports opportunities that we got close to, but never happened.
05:30We ended up looking at Major League Baseball.
05:32The Pittsburgh Pirates was for sale.
05:34The San Diego Padres.
05:36The next thing we did was we got involved in the NFL.
05:39The owner of the Remington Razor Company was selling the New England Patriots.
05:42Hello, I'm Victor Kayam.
05:44I used to be a dedicated wet shaver until my wife bought me this Remington M3 electric shaver.
05:49However, he didn't own the parking lots.
05:51A family by the name of the Crafts owned the stadium parking lots.
05:55We walked away from that deal.
05:57We spent several years trying to get an expansion football team in Baltimore.
06:03We spent a lot of time understanding the NFL business, understanding the stadium business.
06:07We almost had like a college education into the buying of a sports team.
06:11We did not get Baltimore.
06:14Oh God, they worked so hard on that.
06:19After all those years of trying to get an NFL team,
06:23once we had finally successfully agreed to buy the Buccaneers,
06:28it was a unbelievable feeling.
06:34But to make it work, there was a road ahead and some things had to be accomplished.
06:39So while there was a lot of celebration going on, the hard part was yet to come.
06:53A beautiful day in New York City and inside the Paramount Theater,
07:02the Madison's Word Garden Junior, the action is heating up.
07:06Welcome to the 60th Annual National Football League College Draft.
07:12For the 95 draft, we knew we had a great opportunity,
07:16and we didn't want to screw it up.
07:18We wanted to show these people we meant business.
07:20We said, we got to do it right. We got to build this right.
07:23Maybe that's the problem of the past.
07:25My concern was, we don't own the team yet, technically.
07:28You know, we signed the deal to buy the team in January,
07:31but we don't actually take ownership of the team until June.
07:35But they treated us as owners, so we were around in the draft room.
07:39You know, they could hear kind of what's going on, but they couldn't be involved.
07:43That was a high anxiety moment because I remember, geez, father's investing a lot of money.
07:52There's a lot riding on this.
07:55I'll never forget Rich McKay saying, I would trade my entire draft for Warren Sapp.
08:02I just left the University of Miami losing five games in four years,
08:10playing in three national championship games.
08:12And then, you know, all hell breaks loose.
08:18University of Miami defense event Warren Sapp tested positive for marijuana.
08:22Sapp also tested positive for cocaine.
08:24The problem is when you have those allegations, that's enough to push him back a little bit.
08:29So we walk into the draft room.
08:31They had a board set up with all the players on it.
08:33Next to Warren Sapp's name is a red dot.
08:39We ask, what's the red dot?
08:42So, no, no, you know, character issues, we're not going to draft him.
08:45So all of a sudden, the guy who we would trade our entire draft for,
08:48now we're not interested.
08:50You know, we didn't know what to do.
08:54We're scrambling.
08:55You know what drugs does?
08:56It's the cancer.
08:58We just wanted to get our breath.
09:00Maybe we can find out more information.
09:03Well, Tampa Bay, you're talking about a team that's really under the gun to do a good job.
09:08The Glazers, they were watching us and we were at the seventh pick in the draft.
09:12Now the Buccaneers are on the clock.
09:14Sapp would not be a bad player to take here.
09:17Tampa Bay either will go with Warren Sapp or he might slide a little bit.
09:22I'm in Washington, D.C., sick as a dog.
09:25I can't go to the draft.
09:26And I remember sitting there watching the TV.
09:29I'm screaming, take him.
09:31What are we doing?
09:32Take him.
09:33They're saying, well, here's the plan.
09:34I don't give a damn what the plan is.
09:35Take Warren Sapp.
09:36What are you doing?
09:37Well, with about two minutes, a little and change left on the clock.
09:40We have word that there may be a trade in this spot.
09:42With the seventh pick just acquired from Tampa Bay, the Eagles select defensive end Mike Manula.
09:50We traded back.
09:51We're not drafting him.
09:52We're looking at you like this doesn't make any sense.
09:54But again, we're new.
09:55And Warren Sapp starts to drop.
09:58When we traded down, we went from seven to 12.
10:02And then all of a sudden Warren fell a couple more times.
10:05Have you ever done drugs at the University of Miami?
10:08I've never had a problem at the University of Miami with any kind of substance.
10:11Drew Rosenhaus and Sapp are on TV.
10:14We're watching this and it's grueling for Sapp.
10:17He's sitting there.
10:18He's squirming.
10:19Rosenhaus is trying to keep everything upbeat.
10:21I think it's going to be any second.
10:23Literally, this could be the key call.
10:24I think it's obvious he's going to be drafted very soon.
10:27So I call him on the phone.
10:30Let's do it.
10:31Hello, Rosenhaus.
10:32Yes.
10:33Yes, Jerry.
10:34I said, Drew, what's true?
10:37What isn't true?
10:38You got to be candid with me, buddy.
10:40Okay.
10:41You got it.
10:42I got to take this call, guys.
10:43Okay?
10:44Tell us what you know.
10:45He said, Jerry, this is all bullshit.
10:48All of a sudden, Tampa Bay came calling.
10:51Sam Weiss gets on the phone and says, we might take you.
10:55I almost hung the phone up on him.
10:58Because I was at my end.
11:00I had no idea what 11 straight double-digit lost seasons even looked like.
11:05I had never been on a team that didn't have a winning record.
11:08With the 12th pick in the first round, Tampa Bay selects defensive tackle, University of Miami, Warren Sapp.
11:19My brother's over in the corner of the draft room just giddy about it.
11:23And I'm like, really?
11:26And my older brother looked at me and said, everything happened for a reason.
11:29So now you got to go build a dope man into a champion.
11:38Tampa, again, really getting the benefits of that move down trade when they were able to get Warren Sapp.
11:42I kind of think that they're maneuvering themselves for Derrick Brooks, the linebacker from Florida State.
11:47That'd be a good pick.
11:48Derrick Brooks has been everywhere.
11:50We had this strategy all along to get Derrick Brooks.
11:54But there was nervousness, because from where we were in the second round,
11:57you're not getting back in until in the mid-20s.
12:00We began to work the phones, just trying to work our way back.
12:03Dallas has traded its pick to Tampa Bay.
12:06Tampa Bay, with the 28th pick in the first round, has selected linebacker from Florida State, Derrick Brooks.
12:15He checked every box for us.
12:17His coaches would gush over him, you know, the type of person he was and the intangible that he would bring to the team.
12:24I guess the only question is, can the Canes and the Knowles play together?
12:28So ultimately, if it wasn't for the Red Dot, we wouldn't have had Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks.
12:35The fact that things worked out that day, we ended up with two Hall of Fame players in our first draft.
12:43You just can't ask for a better start.
12:46It was just magical.
12:48What a great, great, great day.
12:51Stay out, stay out, stay out.
12:52Stay out, stay out.
12:53Stay out, stay out.
12:54Stay out, stay out.
12:55Stay out, stay out.
12:56Stay out, stay out, stay out.
12:57Derrick Brooks, linebacker, Florida State.
13:02When we got here, we came in with the attitude that we were here to help change the franchise
13:08and really get rid of that losing stigma.
13:12Everything that we can control, it was going to be about winning.
13:20At that time, the defense wasn't great, but they had some tough football players.
13:32People like Hardy Nickerson, John Lynch.
13:37What a draft.
13:38I mean, Sapp and Brooks.
13:40I remember those guys coming to the facility.
13:43Warren came in and said, hey, Brooks, this is that badass white boy that knocks people out.
13:47It wasn't always that way with me.
13:54You know, people always ask you, what did you want to be when I grew up?
14:04And probably six, seven years old, you know, my parents will always tell people, I'm going to play major league baseball or in the NFL.
14:10Football and baseball, those were my two passions.
14:14So I played both sports at Stanford.
14:16John Elway was just my absolute idol.
14:18In large part, went on to Stanford because he was a football baseball guy.
14:22Baseball was really the sport I was most highly touted in.
14:25So there were always scouts around here and everybody was always telling me, you got to just give up football.
14:29My career at Stanford was frustrating.
14:33I was a really highly recruited quarterback in my true freshman year.
14:37I think I win the quarterback job at Stanford.
14:40Long ball by Lynch.
14:42He's got it.
14:43Turns out they went with somebody else.
14:46I ended up going in for a meeting with Coach Green.
14:49I said, I just want to play.
14:52I walked out a strong safety.
14:58About three games in, the season's not going really well and they make some changes.
15:02And I was pulled from the starting lineup.
15:04I thought about transferring.
15:06I thought about just focusing on baseball.
15:08Baseball was going real well.
15:10I knew I'd be drafted after my junior year.
15:12Lynch, John Lynch.
15:15We want him listed as a right-handed pitcher from Stanford University.
15:19He's a crude athlete, but an exciting kid.
15:22Lynch, the Marlins' second round pick in the 1992 free agent draft, has a year-to-year minor league contract.
15:29I'm off at spring training.
15:31Out of nowhere, the great Bill Walsh takes the job at Stanford.
15:34Today the news was confirmed.
15:36The football genius headed back to the school where he coached so successfully in the 70s.
15:41I get a call from Bill Walsh and he says, hey, I know you got pulled from the starting lineup, but you're our best defensive player.
15:48I'm here to tell you, you can not only play in the NFL, but you can be a Pro Bowl strong safety.
15:54And I said, Coach, with all due respect, you know, I started three games at safety.
15:58I really do have something good going on here with the Florida Marlins.
16:01All Bill asked me is, hey, next time you're back in the Bay Area, stop by and see me.
16:07I go over there and in typical Bill Walsh fashion, he's put together a tape.
16:11When I took the job, I was really looking for a Ronnie Lott type safety.
16:16It's a tape of me coming up, making a physical tackle.
16:20And then it's a play of Ronnie Lott doing the same thing.
16:24And then it's me making an interception and then Ronnie Lott doing something similar.
16:28And by the end, we probably met for an hour and a half.
16:31He had me all in and I went back to the Florida Marlins.
16:34My contract was still being worked out.
16:36And they said, well, there's two contracts.
16:39There's one, look, we drafted you thinking you were all in on baseball.
16:42But there's another one if you're going to choose to go back to Stanford and play football.
16:46And it was a pretty sizable difference.
16:48I listened to Coach Walsh and went back and just tore it up my senior year.
16:53All right, it's the throw.
16:55Wings it right inside.
16:56Intercepted by John Lynch.
16:58And the defensive style of the game continues to shine.
17:05I really thought baseball was my future.
17:07But football really was my passion.
17:11I chose to go back.
17:12I listened to my heart.
17:14Let's go, John Lynch.
17:16Welcome to the NFL.
17:17You deserve to be here.
17:19I saw John.
17:20We scrimmaged Miami.
17:21The receiver was going to make a catch in the end zone.
17:24And John hit him so hard.
17:26I was like, wow, the helmet popped off, mouthpiece flying all over the place,
17:30jaw pads all out, the helmet, everything.
17:32I went over to him and I told him, hey, man, you're going to be all right.
17:36You're going to be a damn good football player.
17:38Let's hear it for your 19-95 Top of Bay Buccaneers!
17:52Defense!
17:53Defense!
17:54Defense!
17:55Defense!
17:56In that 95 season, from a talent perspective, you know, we had Sapp, we had Brooks, we had Lynch.
18:05We had Lynch.
18:06I mean, we had pieces.
18:08The team substantially upgraded, but the record did not.
18:11You got something you want to say to the coach?
18:13No.
18:14Please win one for us, Sam.
18:18So, we started the season 5-2 and Sam Weish would announce we were 5-2 in all the media that was doubting us, 5-2.
18:26And then the season just turned to crap and we ended up being 7-9.
18:30So, started out great, didn't finish very well.
18:33And at the end of the year, we had to fire Sam Weish.
18:35We interviewed a bunch of people in a bunch of different places.
18:42Hey, I gotta get a new ring!
18:46Jimmy Johnson had coached the Cowboys, won the Super Bowls.
18:50Steve Spurrier, head coach, University of Florida.
18:53Somebody that would have given us instant credibility locally.
18:56Neither of which were interested.
18:59And I remember the conversation with Jerry Angelo.
19:02And the discussion was really Tony Dungy.
19:05Under and up, under and up.
19:07The elbows in, Wash.
19:09Early on in my career, I'm with the Pittsburgh Steelers under Chuck Knoll.
19:14So, I was basically a cover-two defensive backfield coach.
19:19From there on, ended up as the Minnesota defensive coordinator.
19:23Monty Kiffin was the linebacker coach.
19:26Hey!
19:27You witnessed it!
19:28We may not ever stop!
19:29We've been playing on January!
19:31Monty had this great scheme of run defense and how everything fit in.
19:35So, we spent about three and a half weeks talking X's and O's, going over things.
19:40How can we put this together?
19:44We ended up, one year later, leading the NFL in defense
19:47and having some great defenses there in Minnesota.
19:52Tony's resume screamed, I deserve a chance.
19:56I am the best candidate.
19:57He's so different than most coaches.
20:00Very calm and placid in his demeanor.
20:03But he had interviewed for like six or seven other jobs, never got him.
20:08When I came into the NFL, there were ten African-American assistants in the entire league.
20:14No head coaches.
20:15And then in the mid-90s, you had Art Scheldt with the Raiders and Denny Green got hired at Minnesota.
20:21And people saying, you might be the next one.
20:24But I actually don't think it's all about race.
20:28I think I was denied opportunities way more because of how I lived and what I did.
20:34People told me I didn't respond like a coach.
20:37I didn't fit the mold of a coach.
20:39I talked to people too calmly.
20:41I'm not going to yell at you.
20:43I'm not going to curse.
20:44And you couldn't succeed like that as a coach.
20:50So it's 95.
20:51We're doing the coach search.
20:53We've interviewed four or five people.
20:55Tony probably was going to be interview number, you know, six.
20:58I pulled up to the Santa Clara Marriott and I dropped my glasses getting out of the car and actually broke a screw off.
21:07So I'm saying, gosh, I can go in there and not be able to see or I could fit my glasses any way I could.
21:13So I went into the interview.
21:14My glasses were tipped sideways with only one earpiece on.
21:18Approximately like this.
21:19And he began to talk.
21:21He did great.
21:22But it was about 20 minutes into it when I said, hey, coach, you're driving me crazy here.
21:27You need to take those glasses off.
21:29I can't focus on anything.
21:31I remember calling my wife after the interview and saying, trust me, we're not getting the Tampa job.
21:36This was ridiculous.
21:38Yeah.
21:40You get concerned about, hey, how tough a guy is Tony?
21:43Hey, can he really push it when the going gets hard?
21:46So we went back and we talked to three players that had played for Tony in Minnesota.
21:51We talked to three coaches that had coached with Tony.
21:54It was crazy positive and so much more positive than anybody else we had researched.
21:59We gave that information to the Glazers and they said, well, you know, we want to meet him.
22:04We want to talk to him.
22:05We want to be a part of it.
22:10You know, I assume going into the dinner, Tony expected a four hour dinner of X's and O's.
22:15And what does he think about this player?
22:17What about this play?
22:18The dinner was 95% non football related.
22:21My father would talk to Tony about his background, about his parents and about his kids.
22:28And everything that made up who Tony Dungy the person was.
22:33Mr. Glazer asked me how I was going to run the team, what was important to me, how I was going to discipline the players.
22:39And I talked about doing it with love and mutual respect, putting high character players on the field that Tampa Bay community would be proud of.
22:49Believe it or not, that turned a lot of other owners off.
22:54But Mr. Glazer, he said, that's exactly what I'm looking for.
22:58For Malcolm, it was a family feeling.
23:04They connected.
23:05Tony and Malcolm connected.
23:09We go up to the dessert room and there was a broadcast.
23:12They said, we think the Glazers are inside and they may be interviewing a coach.
23:16Mr. Glazer looked up and he said, all those people are out there.
23:19Well, we ought to take him down and introduce him to our new coach.
23:25That's how I found out I had the job.
23:28Hey, Tony.
23:29How are you doing? Good.
23:31Any job?
23:32You have to ask Mr. Glazer that one.
23:34Are you excited about what's happening though?
23:36Yeah, I think it's going to go pretty well.
23:39It felt good for Tony Dungy.
23:41This is a guy who had been looked past for many years.
23:47Joel, you got your coach?
23:48Very nice to meet you.
23:51And Joss Tony was an unbelievable person, great at what he does,
23:57and was going to bring something to our franchise that was sorely needed.
24:07All right, we got a little cloud cover today.
24:09We might needed some heaters out here.
24:11All right, here we go.
24:16Set.
24:19Ball shouldn't hit the ground.
24:20We got to get a jump on the quarterback.
24:22Once I got to Tampa, I called three guys in.
24:25John Lynch, Warren Sapp, and Derrick Brooks.
24:28And I said, hey, this is defense that Monte Kiffin's going to bring here.
24:31It's designed for you guys.
24:33Derrick, you're going to be Jack Hamm.
24:35Warren, you're going to be Joe Green.
24:37And John, you're going to be Donny Sill.
24:39Finally, we got a coach here that's going to run a 4-3 and put me at Will Linebacker.
24:46It was Sapp up front.
24:47It was Brooks.
24:48And then I was back.
24:49We had all three levels right down the middle.
24:51He wanted me to play like I played at the University of Miami.
24:54And I said, hold on, coach.
24:55Do you know what that entails?
24:57I said, I trampled the run on my way to the quarterback.
25:00He said, that's fine by me.
25:01If you guys play this defense the way I think you will, you're going to have great careers.
25:06We're going to win championships.
25:07And you're going to be in the Hall of Fame.
25:10There's some real building blocks and guys who are going to be able to do the things that are necessary to build a winning team.
25:17And I think you're going to see that in the very near future.
25:20Tony introduced the championship mindset for the team.
25:24The other coaches that we had before that, they didn't talk about the championship.
25:28Hey, that's what we want.
25:29Good protection, but it's got to be that way every time.
25:32Not going to get a chance to repeat it in the game.
25:35Coach Dungy was calm, collective, kept his poise.
25:40He had to take 53 guys and like mold us.
25:45Now I can go anywhere.
25:46I can run corner.
25:47I can run deep.
25:48I can run comeback.
25:49And you're not going to know.
25:50You got to focus in right here.
25:52No other coach won me over like Tony Dungy did because he laid things out.
25:56I like people to say, do this and this will happen.
25:59Working technique now.
26:00How we do it.
26:01Not necessarily what we do.
26:02How we do it.
26:03I saw him rebuilding the details of everything in the program.
26:08He was able to make a very complex game simple.
26:13He gave us a mountain to climb, but he gave us a system and the knowledge to go do it.
26:18All right. Good work, man. Good work.
26:20Get some rest this afternoon.
26:21We want to come out and we want to finish off strong this evening.
26:24That's the way to work.
26:30It's opening day.
26:31NFL 96.
26:32The Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the Green Bay Packers.
26:39So 1996 Tony Dungy era begins and it begins with a thud.
26:46No for facing a rush.
26:48Quick pass.
26:49Interplay.
26:50Interceptive.
26:51First game they get beat 34-3 to the Green Bay Packers.
26:55Start the season.
26:580-1.
27:020-2.
27:03And the Broncos have it.
27:050-3.
27:060-4.
27:08And Tony Dungy is beat but more than I've ever seen he beat.
27:11I remember walking off the field.
27:13We had just lost the game to the Seattle Seahawks and this guy just yelling at the top of his lungs.
27:19Dungy, you stink.
27:20You're the worst coach we've ever had.
27:22We're worse than we've ever been.
27:24I'm never coming back here as long as you're the coach.
27:26We started the first season with Tony.
27:27We're 0-5.
27:28We'd been knocked to the ground.
27:29We'd been beaten.
27:30You know, the media not happy with things.
27:33The press is screaming for Tony's head.
27:39Fans are upset.
27:40You can't blame him.
27:41We'll work for a win.
27:42We're hungry.
27:43Go Bucs!
27:44It was hard because, you know, you kind of felt like the redheaded stepchild of the NFL.
27:51It was definitely rougher than I thought it was going to be.
27:55His first job as a head coach and the Buccaneers lose his first five games.
27:59I'm starting to think, was this the right hire?
28:02So we knew something had to happen.
28:08And we tell Tony that we'd like to have lunch with him.
28:12And I wasn't sure if they were going to say, hey, this is it or what.
28:18Yes, we were 0-5.
28:20But when you watch the games, you could see there was a plan.
28:24If it means losing to get to the promise line, to get to winning, to play the right players,
28:30to have them get more experience, to win later on, that was okay with us.
28:34We had a long-term vision.
28:36They said, we need guys who are committed and are going to stay the course.
28:40We're not going to change anything we're doing.
28:42We just want you to know we believe this isn't a one-year deal.
28:46We're in your corner.
28:47And man, that just said so much to me.
28:50Tony thought we're going to fire him or something.
28:52We just told him we are on his side.
28:54Don't worry about it.
28:55We're here for the long haul.
28:56Because it wasn't going to happen overnight.
28:58We had a young team that needed leadership and guidance and needed to learn how to win.
29:13San Diego.
29:14San Diego.
29:15I don't know the date, but I know it was 1996.
29:19We were sitting there watching ESPN.
29:22The Chargers get sent today to host Tampa Bay.
29:24Tony's finding out, oh, to be a Bucs coach.
29:26Can you believe Tampa Bay is 1-19 lifetime on the West Coast?
29:31Me and Brooks were sitting there watching this thing and the San Diego Superchargers play the yucks.
29:38And I look over at Brooks and I say, are you fucking kidding me?
29:41The yucks?
29:42He is just going lividly off.
29:45Throws the remote.
29:46What the hell?
29:47You see how they talk about us on TV?
29:50They call us the fucking yucks.
29:52Are you kidding me right now?
29:54And they are on their feet at Jack Murphy Stadium as we get ready for the Tampa Bay Bucs.
30:00For the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Diego Chargers.
30:03You haven't won since 1980 on the West Coast.
30:05Today, they would like to end that.
30:07That was a pivotal game.
30:09Tampa Bay underdogs.
30:10We had never beaten San Diego on the West Coast.
30:12Time to maybe rewrite the history books.
30:15Here's the kickoff and we're underway.
30:17Early in the game, they hit us with two big plays.
30:20He drops the throw.
30:21Gets the pass away.
30:22It is caught at the 45.
30:23To the 50.
30:24We'll go all the way.
30:25Touchdown San Diego.
30:27Aaron Bennett sends a towering shot up into the air.
30:31Marlon Marshall, he bubbles the football.
30:33And the Chargers say they got it.
30:35Before you know it, we're down 14-0.
30:38And San Diego has scored a pair of TDs and we still have 4-12 left in the first quarter.
30:44Past Buck teams, they get behind 14-0.
30:47That final's going to be 31-10.
30:49Well, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have dug themselves a hole here in Southern California.
30:53Here we are.
30:54We never win.
30:55We're down two scores.
30:56We're not going to do it.
30:57But those guys would not give up.
30:59We're going to throw the stake in the ground.
31:01And that's the last time they're going to disrespect the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
31:04Buccaneers.
31:05B-U-C-C-A-N-E-E-R-F.
31:11And we started making plays against a competitive team on the road.
31:17The Bucs are in the red zone with a chance to put seven on the board.
31:22And off to Allstott.
31:23Siggs to his left.
31:24Allstott to the three.
31:25Two, one.
31:26Touchdown, Tampa Bay.
31:28Bucs have their first touchdown on the west coast in a long time.
31:31We never gave up.
31:33We continued to play hard.
31:36Picked off.
31:37Picked off by Donnie Abraham.
31:38He's to the 20.
31:39Abraham to the 15, to the 14.
31:41Wow.
31:42What a hit by Brooks.
31:44Trent Dilfer goes 30 for 40.
31:48300-plus yard has one of his best days ever.
31:51Closed outfield.
31:53Caught.
31:54What a blow by Doper.
31:55When I came to Tampa, I was the sixth pick of the draft.
31:58However, the early part of my Tampa Bay Buccaneer experience,
32:02I think I was the worst player in the National Football League.
32:05Not quarterback, like, player.
32:07Coach Dungy easily could have got rid of me.
32:10Instead, he believed in me and breathed life back into me as a player.
32:14All these things that Coach Dungy has been preaching to us,
32:17it kind of all came to life.
32:19And he's making an interception in the stadium that I used to go to as a kid,
32:32watching the Chargers.
32:33You know, my whole family was there.
32:35Johnny Lynch.
32:36Welcome home.
32:37A California kid.
32:38It's first to go.
32:40Hand off the rim.
32:41Hand off.
32:42We've got a touchdown.
32:44The Buccaneers lead.
32:48The alley of Hail Mary.
32:49Hail Mary.
32:50Knocked away.
32:51It's a place.
32:52Ball game's over.
32:53Buccaneers beat the Chargers.
32:54Buccaneers beat the Chargers.
32:56Buccaneers beat the Chargers.
32:58That's when people really started to believe in the possibilities of what we could do,
33:03led by Coach Dungy.
33:05Well, we ended up that year winning five of the last seven.
33:10The offense in our defensive systems,
33:15you could just see the whole picture coming together.
33:19I think that was a culmination of being patient with Tony's defense and being patient with Tony.
33:25The players buying in.
33:27Everything kind of come together and say,
33:29listen, we are headed in the right direction.
33:31We have a hell of a team here.
33:33It was time to start paying attention to the Buccaneers.
33:36And gone were those days of being called the yucks.
33:39When I came to the Bucs, I asked every veteran player,
33:58please tell me why you think we haven't won any of the problems that we have to address.
34:05Hardy Nickerson came in. He had a yellow legal pad with about six pages of notes on it.
34:10And one of the things he said was the orange uniforms.
34:14The uniform had developed over the years to this just neon orange, winking pie red.
34:23He said, how the hell can these guys feel good in these uniforms?
34:26It's almost embarrassing what the uniform had kind of become.
34:29I remember sitting in the room at the NFL and they started putting helmets on the table.
34:36There was a white helmet, a black helmet.
34:39And there's this different looking one.
34:42What's this?
34:44There's pewter.
34:46That's unique.
34:48Nobody was using pewter.
34:50It was something we could own.
34:51People could talk about pewter as being our color.
34:53We had a real simple decision.
34:55Do we want evolution or do we want revolution?
35:00Ladies and gentlemen, the new colors and the new logo for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
35:06This team needed a reboot, a facelift, to give it more of a menacing look.
35:12We feel that we put the past behind us now.
35:15You know, the colors give us a little confidence.
35:17I think everybody's going to like it.
35:19I love it.
35:20We had learned that the Buccaneers were a certain type of pirate that when they raised a red flag,
35:26that's what signaled their attack.
35:29It was the aha moment.
35:31All right, it's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Francisco 49ers.
35:48We're back to Tampa.
35:5096 had been a very unusual year, yet we finished the year well.
35:54So 97, our hopes were high, but now we're going to play the 49ers.
35:59They beat everybody.
36:01That's all they do.
36:03Steve Young's the quarterback.
36:05Jerry Rice is the receiver.
36:07And what chance do you have?
36:08It was a David and Goliath type of situation.
36:11We were the David, but with a chip on our shoulder.
36:14Let's show people that we are different.
36:20It's Young being chased by Sanford.
36:22And the Tampa Bay defense, Zach Young, he is out.
36:30Stepping on the field in regular season in the new look.
36:32Everybody loved it.
36:33And these things really just from the moment we started, you know, they rocked.
36:38And Arthur Hurst, the former Arizona Cardlow with no place to go.
36:42Here comes the whole group.
36:44Everybody tries to get in on every tackle.
36:46They became not just a defense, but a gang.
36:48This was a fearsome bunch.
36:50They wanted to be feared like pirates.
36:52We really, really complimented each other in every way, shape, and form.
37:10It was magic.
37:12It was magic.
37:13It was magic.
37:14The crowd was unreal.
37:16I just called myself the fire starter.
37:18I was always going to start something.
37:20We'd have us an inferno going by the second half.
37:23I like this Tampa Bay defense.
37:25Oh, they swarm and chase it.
37:27Jerry Rice on crutches.
37:28It's a left leg injury.
37:29Young is out.
37:30Woosie after a first series hit.
37:32This has turned into a physical football game.
37:34Wow.
37:35Ari Nicholson lit him up.
37:37The change in organization.
37:39How we did things.
37:40The change in uniforms.
37:42All of those things introduced us to that next level.
38:00The Bucs physically just beat up on the 49ers.
38:04And San Francisco has held the final 25 minutes without a first out.
38:12That served notice, I think, to the rest of the NFL that these guys were for real.
38:17And a benchmark game for second year head coach Tony Dungeon.
38:22Opening day to beat San Francisco.
38:25I mean, I get goosebumps thinking about that day.
38:37It's emotional because that you knew, you felt.
38:42And that moment against the San Francisco 49ers.
38:45This day we fear not death.
38:50We turned the corner.
38:52Raise the flags till our dying breath.
38:59Tony Dungeon.
39:00Tony Dungeon.
39:01Marker, take one.
39:02Jerry Angelo, take one.
39:03Mark.
39:04Last question.
39:05And you absolutely have to answer this.
39:06Come on, buddy.
39:07Come on.
39:08Don't give me the greatest buck of all time.
39:09Don't give me that one.
39:10Whew.
39:11Greatest buck of all time.
39:12I'm sorry, but I'm old school and I have to go back to Leroy Selman.
39:27Tremendous player.
39:28But then what he did off the field in the community and being an ambassador for the Buccaneers.
39:36He set the bar.
39:38I think some people have approached it, but I don't think anybody's passed that bar yet.
39:43You know, I got my list on the three.
39:45Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, Leroy Selman.
39:48But if I had to say it would be Sapp, I love Derrick Brooks.
39:54If I had to have a son, it would be Derrick Brooks.
39:57And what a great player.
39:59What a great career.
40:00Leroy, I mean, it's like picking flavors, but given the time and what we needed at the
40:09time, Sapp was a true Hall of Fame player on all three downs.
40:14Yeah, that's a tough one.
40:17But if I got to vote so I can get out of this room, that's where I'm going.
40:22Save me.
40:23Save me.
40:24For myself and for my health life.
40:25Save me.
40:26I've been on my own doing for myself life.
40:29Save me.
40:30From the pain and all the glory.
40:33Save me.
40:34Don't want it to be the same old story.
40:36Save me.
40:37Highs and lows, I suppose.
40:39Save me.
40:40The higher you get, the lower it goes.
40:43Save me.
40:44Save me.
40:45Save me your time.
40:46Save me your toes.
40:47Save me.
40:48I'm praying for mine and saving my soul.
40:50Save me.
40:51Lord knows I've been crazy.
40:53Lord knows I've been wasting time.
40:55Now I'm back on my grind to make peace.
40:57Take heat.
40:58Take the lead.
40:59No fairy tales.
41:00No make-believe.
41:01It's time when you make do or take the reins to tame the beast.
41:05Break the rules, we play for keeps.
41:06It's that high composition, no opposition.
41:09We back on the roads and we back to beats.
41:11Back to business, back to wonder.
41:13What's the spell that I've been under?
41:15What's the brain without the thunder?
41:17Wake up, you're a slumber.
41:22Save me.
41:23For myself and for my health life.
41:26Save me.
41:27The higher you get, the lower it goes.
41:32Save me.
41:33Save me your time, stay on your toes.
41:36Save me.
41:37I'm praying for mine and saving my soul.
41:57Save me.
41:58Merry Christmas.
41:59Friends, work this week.
42:00Save me.
42:01podem gather money.
42:02Cookies,gg могу.
42:03Save me.
42:04That impact.
42:05Try to choose strange things.
42:06Leave me your time.
42:07Someone.
42:08Leave me...
42:10Mother.
42:11Bang!
42:12Be a key字.
42:13ils...
42:14Woman.
42:15Bar Gall.
42:16Be your stage.
42:18You're all room for me.
42:20You're a selfish.
42:21Hope your eyes can be.
42:22You're등, alright.
42:23You're doing so well.
42:24You're not.
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