Thread: the Tampa Bay Curse?

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The long-standing "Tampa Bay Curse" has been described as the following:

"No team has ever lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the regular season, and gone on to win the Super Bowl that same season."

It has held true from from the team's inception (1976) through the 2008 season (2008-09 playoffs). The following is a list of the "Curse Victims."



Tampa Bay Curse Victims



*-denotes a playoff team

1976: none
1977: NO, St. Louis Cardinals
1978: Min*, Atl*, KC, Chi, Buf
1979: Det, Baltimore Colts, GB, Chi*, Min, Det, NYG, KC, LA Rams* (Rams lost Super Bowl XIV)
1980: Cin, LA Rams*, SF, NYG, GB
1981: Min, St. Louis Cardinals, Det, GB, Chi, NO, Atl
1982: NO, Buf, Det*, Chi, Mia* (Dolphins lost Super Bowl XVII)
1983: Min, Houston Oilers
1984: Det, GB, Min, NYG*, Atl, NYJ
1985: St. Louis Cardinals, Det
1986: Det, Buf
1987: Atl, Det, GB, Min* (Vikings lost NFC Championship)
1988: GB, Det, Buf* (Bills lost AFC Championship)
1989: GB, NO, Chi, Phx
1990: Det, Min, GB, Atl
1991: Phi, Ind, Det* (Lions lost NFC Championship)
1992: Phx, GB, Det, Chi
1993: Det*, Atl, Min*, Chi, Den*
1994: Ind, Det*, Min*, Was, LA Rams
1995: Phi*, Was, Car, Cin, Min, Jax, GB* (Packers lost NFC Championship)
1996: Min*, Oak, SD, NO, Was, Chi
1997: SF, Det*, Min*, Mia*, Arz, Ind, Atl, NE*, NYG*, Chi
1998: Chi, NYG, Car, GB*, Pit, Cin, Min* (Vikings lost NFC Championship in OT)
1999: Phi, Den, Chi, NO, KC, Atl, Sea*, Min*, Det*, GB
2000: NE, Chi, Det, Min*, Atl, GB, Buf, Dal, Mia*, StL*
2001: Dal, GB*, Min, Det, Cin, NO, Bal*, StL* (Rams lost Super Bowl XXXVI)
2002: Bal, StL, Cin, Atl*, Cle*, Car, Min, GB*, Det, Chi
2003: Atl, Was, Dal*, NYG, NO, Hou, Phi* (Eagles were #1 seed in NFC, lost NFC Championship)
2004: NO, Chi, KC, SF, Atl* (Falcons lost NFC Championship)
2005: Min, Buf, GB, Det, Mia, Was*, Atl, NO, Car*
2006: Cin, Phi*, Was, Cle
2007: NO, StL, Car, Ten*, Arz, Atl, Was*
2008: Atl*, Chi, GB, Car*, Sea, KC, Min*, Det, NO

2009: Sea, GB*, NO* (NO is going to Super Bowl XLIV)



*Three teams (1979 Rams, 1982 Dolphins, 2001 Rams) came close to breaking the curse, making it to the Super Bowl. But all three lost. The 2001 Rams argueably came the closest - losing to the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI to Adam Vinatieri's last-second game-winning field goal.

*Counting 1976-2008, the Curse has had 186 victims, including 49 playoff teams, 3 Super Bowl losers, 7 conference championship game losers, one #1 playoff seed. Note that the number does not equal Tampa Bay's total franchise victories because many of the victims were beaten by Tampa Bay twice in the same season.





*For 2009, Tampa Bay beat two NFC playoff teams...the #1 seed New Orleans, as well as Green Bay. Results are pending.


EDIT...Seattle was the 187th victim (they did not even make the playoffs), now Green Bay is the 188th victim
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HOLY SHII---

Weird

Well, Gamechanger there's always a first time, so who'll it be: the Colts wearing their blues or the Saints after losing to the Bucs!!

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Colts are "home" team in Super Bowl
Posted by Michael David Smith on January 26, 2010 12:59 PM ET
The Super Bowl is played on a neutral field, but there's always one team designated as "home" and one team designated as "visitors." This year, the Colts are the home team.

So the Colts will wear their home blue uniforms, and the Saints will wear their road uniforms. The Saints will also get to call heads or tails on the coin toss. Other than that, it doesn't make much difference which team is considered home and which is away.

Or does it? The Colts are also staying at the same hotel where they stayed the last time the Super Bowl was in South Florida, when they beat the Chicago Bears. With 25 players who have Super Bowl experience, maybe the home jerseys will add to an overall feel of comfort in Miami.

On the other hand, Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star notes that the Colts are 2-0 in the Super Bowl while wearing their white jerseys, having won Super Bowls XLI and V as the designated road team, but 0-1 in the blue jerseys, having lost Super Bowl III as the home team. Maybe the Colts would feel more comfortable in road white.

Or maybe it doesn't really matter, and we're stretching to cover every angle during the two weeks of non-stop hype before the Super Bowl.

The curse has been broken and the Colts remain winless in SBs in their blue unis!!

I like stats but sometimes the stat guys come up with utter BS. Local sports guy will go on and on about how a team has done against the spread - for the last 10 years

Another piece of trivia down the memory hole

Now we still have a handful of teams that have not made the SB that need to .

Anyone in for a Browns - Lions SB next year?

Originally Posted by Ottokar Prohaska

I like stats but sometimes the stat guys come up with utter BS. Local sports guy will go on and on about how a team has done against the spread - for the last 10 years

Another piece of trivia down the memory hole

Now we still have a handful of teams that have not made the SB that need to .

Anyone in for a Browns - Lions SB next year?

Is that the idiot Bob Matthews from the D&C? I remember him being stupid and uninformative way back when I was a teen.

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Is that the idiot Bob Matthews from the D&C? I remember him being stupid and uninformative way back when I was a teen.

There are plenty of stupid, uniformative writers in Boston, Just read the Globe

Originally Posted by Medford Bronco

There are plenty of stupid, uniformative writers in Boston, Just read the Globe

Did Ron Borges write for the Blobe? Or rather, take credit for other peoples stuff as his own in the Globe? I can't remember where he plagiarized, but I know it was Boston.

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Did Ron Borges write for the Blobe? Or rather, take credit for other peoples stuff as his own in the Globe? I can't remember where he plagiarized, but I know it was Boston.

lol that was Mike Barnicle.

Also Borges did write for the Globe and got fired
Now he writes for the better Boston paper the Herald.

He is moron though.

Maybe it is best to win with white uniforms! Nobody has won with home uniforms since the Pats in 2004!