Get out there and talk to people!

Encourage people to support this team! Teach them!

This defense needs us to return full force like back in the day.

Go Bucs!

I have been to the games and the stadium is packed with crazy Bucs fans supporting their team. More fans in Raymond James than most other games I watch on TV. I guess you better go see for yourself! That’s why it’s so crazy because the entire place is packed with just a few scattered seats here and there yet they say we haven’t sold out.

I agree with you about our switch to the south from the central division. During the winter months people from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota etc… have homes down here they usually stay in for 6 months out of the year. I remember many games against the Packers, Bears, Lions and Vikings where visiting team fans practically out numbered Buc fans. Folks who live in New Orleans, Atlanta and Charlotte don’t have winter homes here, so only a small contingent make the 24 hour drive to see there team compete. Couple that with the fact that we have played a few home games against the west, who would have to travel across the country to be here. There are about 50,000 true Buccaneer fans out of a 350,000 Tampa population. The rest are just not interested in football or they are fans of other teams. Ask around the water cooler one day and you will get a fair consensus. If you have a variety of folks from different parts of the country, you should be around 15%. That’s not good enough, we have too many transients who live here who remain loyal to other teams compared to other cities like N.O, Atlanta and Charlotte. Our fan base has to rely on home grown fans that have to have thick skins to endure the criticism from others. Let’s face it, the Bucs have been historically terrible and the enemy doesn’t let you forget it either. You don’t see a lot of Bucs jerseys being proudly worn around Tampa everyday. I bought both my sons authentic gameday jerseys for Christmas when they were in high school. They would never wear them except to a game or at home, never in public. They said they didn’t want to be embarrassed or ridiculed. If the Bucs want to rebuild their fan base then they need to continue with winning, not just this year but for the next 5-10 years. They need to erase the stigma of being a losing franchise.

I think attendance in Tampa was much better when we were still in the NFC Central Division.

Ding!

Joe knows a ticket broker who had dozens of season tickets. He sold almost all of them to Bears/Vikings/Lions/Packers fans who always came down for the weekend and treated the game as a mini vacation.

When the Bucs moved to the NFC South, he took a bath. Carolina and Falcons fans almost never travel. He got rid of them after two years in the NFC South.

You struck out several times in your rant.

Joe, are you kidding me? Trying to blame the holiday week? If anything else, that would make more people go to the game.

So families are supposed to cancel their plans, change flights or throw out visitors in order to buy tickets to a game so you can feel good for some unknown reason?

Detroit sells out. Cleveland sells out. Jacksonville, Buffalo, Pittsburgh,

Other than Jacksonville, TOTALLY different demographics if not economic conditions. And Jacksonville sells out so often, they are often rumored to move out of state.

Tampa is a crappy sports market, end of story.

The Lightning would strongly disagree. For baseball it sure is.

And let’s stop blaming the economy.

Yeah, the rotten economy has nothing to do with this. Perhaps you should do some research.

Why is it so difficult to believe that more and more people find going to a game a less enjoyable experience than watching football at home, especially when the Bucs game is available for free at midnight on NFL.com?

Why do people continue to ignore the growing numbers of people watching on TV rather than going to games?