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Coming this week - your suggestions for how to improve the Bucs UK and BUCPOWER.COM - and details of a superb throwback competition for club members
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Welcome Buccaneer fans!
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BUCPOWER.COM was launched in January 2002. As of Feb 9, 2010, it had taken a total of 3,689,118 hits | |
 Everything you wanted to know about the Bucs' victory in Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego. Game reports, pictures, statistics and comments. Click here for the menu | |
The JP Peterson ShowDuring the Buc season, BUCPOWER.COM has a regular Tuesday 8.50pm UK time slot on JP Peterson's Happy Hour show on the CBS affiliated station, 1010 Sports. 1010 Sports can be listened to from this country and features some of the best sports discussion out there. Click here for a link to the 1010 Sports website | |
The spiritual home of the Bucs UK on trips to Tampa is Selmon's restaurant. Situated less than a mile from Raymond James Stadium, it is a tribute to the Buccaneers' Hall of Fame defensive end with pictures and jerseys from his NFL career.
Click here for a link to the Selmon's website |
Uncapped year would send shockwaves thru NFL 
Now the 2009 NFL season has officially ended, we can turn our attention to the most important game that the league has faced in many years. Getting a new Collective Bargaining Agreement done. The NFLPA says a lockout is "a 14 on a scale of 1 to 10" and there are not many people being positive about the situation right now. This needs to get resolved to avoid an uncapped year in 2010.
Click here for more on this story |
What are Booger's Super Bowl memories?A lot of people forget that the Buccaneers concluded their playoff run to Super Bowl XXXVII without one of their key defensive starters, Anthony McFarland. But he made up for it four years later when he won another ring with the Colts and had a key sack. Click here for more on this story |
Warren Sapp arrested at Super BowlAnd in another ex-Buc story, No.99 found himself in trouble with the law overnight as he was arrested on a domestic battery charge in Miami. US law dictates that anyone accused of such a crime is automatically arrested but the facts in this case don't look good for the NFL Network presenter. Click here for more on this story |
One year on - an interview with Jon GrudenA year after he was sacked by the Buccaneers, Jon Gruden has had a pretty good 12 months. His work on Monday Night Football has been excellent and his value as a coach will increase with another year dealing in speculation. Click here for more on this story |
The annual Super Bowl drinking gameAnother big game tradition - Lee Bromfield and I get together to add an alternative aspect to the big match-up and a game you can play at home with the whole family. Click here for the full feature |
Bucs complete coaching staffThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaching staff is complete after the hiring of Eric Yarber to coach the wide receivers in 2010. Names like Ike Hilliard and Keenan McCardell had been bandied about but simply having been a good player does not necessarily make you a good coach. Click here for more on this story |
What are you looking for from Super Bowl XLIV? We have 13 members on the "Around the Pirate Ship" panel who each Friday will be offering their comments as a selected quartet on various Buc and NFL-related subjects. So with John "Jay Mariotti" Davies leading the way .... HORN! Click here for the full feature |
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Some unusual Super Bowl bets Jimmy Shapiro contacted myself, along with other media outlets, to alert us to some of the more unusual bets that can be placed on the Super Bowl outside of who is going to win, cover the spread and who will score the first TD. Click here for more on this story |
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BUC STORY ARCHIVE Click on the links below for recent articles |
| Chris Bruno - Be a Saint for 60 Minutes |
| Alex Van Pelt is new QB coach |
| Derrick Brooks just can't let it go |
| Why quarterback is a need (veteran back-up that is) |
| Some changes to offensive and defensive plans |
| Joe Henderson - Being sensible not cheap |
| Not really in control of their destiny |
| What are your most memorable Super Bowl memories outside of the Bucs? |
| So who out there can help the Buccaneers? |
| Lee Bromfield's final column of the year - a list of lists |
| Martin Fennelly - draft Tim Tebow anyway |
| Understanding the CBA issues |
| GM Mark Dominik speaks out |
| Click here for other stories going back the last six months |
 37 Brandon Anderson 
Promoted from the practice squad after the Atlanta game due to Torrie Cox being placed on injured reserve. Played three games on special teams before returning to the developmental roster for the final two weeks of the year.
Click here for his updated profile page 
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The 2009 Bucs UK Awards Every year, the Bucs UK run a series of awards across nine different categories. Some of these awards date back to 1985 and the roll of honour reads as a who's who in franchise history. Every member of the club from 2009 was entitled to vote in these awards as we on-line votes via the website. Some of the nominations were interesting to say the least, but as always, went towards the nine winners being selected. Click here to review all the nine awards categories | |
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The Bucs UK Hall of Fame This is the section where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Supporters Club UK can fully recognise the help and assistance given by friends and colleagues around the world as well as great players from franchise history. There were five new members for 2009, all based on the other side of the Atlantic, and all well worthy of their place for their efforts in supporting both the Bucs UK and BUCPOWER.COM in years gone past. Click here to review all the 25 members | |
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The Bucs UK at the Winter Olympics Now we all have something really worth watching in Vancouver next week. Bucs UK member Dan Money has been selected to the GB Bobsleigh team and will be representing his country in one of the most dramatic sports in all of the Olympics. So from everyone connected with the Bucs UK and BUCPOWER, congratulations and do us proud! 
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The Buccaneers' 2010 Opponents HOME: Atlanta, Carolina, Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, St.Louis, Seattle AWAY: Arizona, Atlanta, Baltimore, Carolina, Cincinnati, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington. | |
 7/2 - All of the 2001 game screens have been completed. 5/2 - All the game screens from the 2000 season have been completed. 2/2 - Game reports from the 1993 season have been modified. 1/2 - Game reports from the 1989 season have been modified. 31/1 - Game screens from the 1999 season have been completed. 29/1 - Pictures from the 2009 season have been added to all galleries. | |
How to join the Bucs UKThe Bucs UK is entering its 26th year of operation and is unparalled around the world in terms of the benefits for its members and relationship with its parent NFL franchise. Membership is restricted to UK residents. Click here for details of membership entitlements for 2010 Click here for the Bucs UK's 2009 annual report Click here for details of the Bucs UK's ticket arrangement | |
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The Bucs UK on American TV The NFL Films documentary about the club has now had its debut on American television and there are two more repeat showings today on the NFL Network. I got to see the broadcast for the first time last night and it is a piece of great editing by Adam Ryan especially the interlink with Warren Sapp at a Buc training camp. It might also be available via the message board on YouTube! Click here for a link to the programme | |
| About this site BUCPOWER.COM is the most detailed website about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers anywhere on the net. It has profiles of every player who has appeared for the franchise, reports and stats from every game, and over 7,400 images of the Bucs' 33-year history in the NFL. The aim of this website is to provide Buccaneer fans everywhere, with information about the players and the franchise, dating back to its inception in 1976. Information and pictures on this site come from a wide range of sources and we are happy to give credit to those parties where due. Anything detailed on BUCPOWER.COM will be by recommendation only. There will never be any kind of advertising on this site. We have been approached by various companies and have turned them all away. Any kind of merchandise detailed on this site is by recommendation only - you will never find a pop-up, erroneous mailing or dubious link originating from this site. And best of all - it will always be free to access! | |