Bucs’ London Game Announced
April 17th, 2019
UPDATED: 10:32 a.m. – Well, here is 1/16th — or perhaps 2/17ths — of the NFL scheduling puzzle for the Bucs.
The Bucs will host the Stinking Panthers in London on Sunday, Oct. 13, Week 6 of the schedule, the team announced this morning.
The game will be a 9:30 a.m. kickoff, Tampa time and yes, that’s a lost “home game” for the Bucs. That also means you can count on the Buccaneers’ bye week in Week 7, as most teams get a week off following the overseas jaunt.
So you now have roughly a six-month warning to stock up on vodka and Bloody Mary mix, or join Joe at a local watch party.
The full schedule is released at 8 p.m. tonight on NFL Network, if it doesn’t trickle out sooner.
April 17th, 2019 at 10:18 am
On a poistive note, at least the bay area will spared from embarrassing football for a weekend. bucs home record like every record they have is simply pitiful
April 17th, 2019 at 10:18 am
I just got the notice from Buccaneers.com and they announced it like it was a great event. Buc fans are getting shafted from a home game AGAIN! THATS NOT A GOOD F….ING THING! Screw the international games! Football is OUR sport!
April 17th, 2019 at 10:22 am
Agree, but that’s the penance of hosting a Super Bowl: Have to cough up a regular season game to be played overseas.
April 17th, 2019 at 10:23 am
This isn’t 2009 where home games are blacked out or blocked in any way.
April 17th, 2019 at 10:25 am
JOE! I will be there!!!! WOOO
April 17th, 2019 at 10:26 am
Possible bye week to follow (W7). Not too bad.
April 17th, 2019 at 10:28 am
Very good point.
April 17th, 2019 at 10:29 am
Unwarranted negative vibe on this team the entire off-season from crazy joe basically wanting everyone to know the team sucks even before the draft. Your the Dirk Koetter guy because yea if he couldn’t be successful with this team who can right crazy joe😒
April 17th, 2019 at 10:29 am
Long way to go to lose a game to the panthers and that clown cam
April 17th, 2019 at 10:30 am
GREAT!!!!!!!
i can turn up as soon as i jump out the bed!!!!!!!
#REALISTKNOWSNOTHING!!!!!…GO BUCS!!!!
April 17th, 2019 at 10:35 am
What a waste of a great division game to be played on the other side of the world
April 17th, 2019 at 10:38 am
I agree with the penance part Joe but please explain why we are ALWAYS the home team? That’s the part that sucks!
April 17th, 2019 at 10:43 am
I am glad this “home game” in London is against a team like the Panthers vice the Giants or Patriots or Bears, as those teams are very popular in London–due to ties with those cities. The advantage there would swing heavily to those teams. So hoping this field is “neutral” at worst. Bucs-Panthers seems to draw a fairly small crowd in Tampa, so this can work out okay. Worst case is I save $600 on my season ticket package. Hoping to see the Bucs go to Nashville in Sep-Oct….will be our road trip this year along with seeing the Grand Ole Opry.
April 17th, 2019 at 10:49 am
On the bright side, NASCAR is running at Talladega that Sunday. Big wrecks and such.
April 17th, 2019 at 10:54 am
The NFL robbed us again. Not only did we lose a home game, and a division game, we have to start out our Sunday with a 9 30 a.m. kickoff. The NFL really gave us the shaft minus any grease. They could have at the very least started the London game at 5 p.m. sparing us the early morning nausea.
April 17th, 2019 at 10:58 am
i think we have a similar season as the colts last year…..we may start off slow but we’ll end up running off 7-8 in a row while making the playoffs….
#REALISTKNOWSNOTHING!!!!!…GO BUCS!!!!
April 17th, 2019 at 11:05 am
I’m OK with it. Hosting a Super Bowl is good for the local economy.
April 17th, 2019 at 11:05 am
So tired of having early bye weeks. Why can’t we get a week 9 bye week. I’m also surprised that we would have a division game in London.
April 17th, 2019 at 11:06 am
Screw England and screw the NFL
April 17th, 2019 at 11:14 am
Surprise surprise mostly everyone is on here complaining and is not happy. Who would have guessed that?
April 17th, 2019 at 11:18 am
The only thing all these teams have in common is that they can’t consistently sell out home games. The glazers should swallow their pride and sell the team because they honestly suck on every level.
April 17th, 2019 at 11:20 am
Great. 1 of only 2 guaranteed games shown in NC is now in the morning. Lovely! Somehow Jason Licht had something to do with this atrocity. Booooo!
April 17th, 2019 at 11:27 am
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I am happy to see my Buccaneers while needing only a short flight. *taking shelter
April 17th, 2019 at 11:30 am
If the Bucs play it right, they do a normal week of practice, and get on a plane Friday afternoon…land in London about 1am London time, put the boys to bed by 3am, have the walkthrough about 1pm London time, and put them back in bed by 7pm (curfew) London time that night. That will minimize their biological clock changes and they will feel “normal” at game time. If they get out of their home shedule, it basically takes 1 day for every hour of time zone crossed. They shouldn’t make it a nice weeklong road trip like they did last time they did this…treat it like business, minimize sight seeing, and tell the players and staff to get out and see all England has to offer….ON THEIR OWN TIME in the offseason.
April 17th, 2019 at 11:31 am
6:30 west coast… brutal!
April 17th, 2019 at 11:35 am
OUCH!
April 17th, 2019 at 11:46 am
“Glazers increasing the London Bucsfan base as the Tampa Bay Bucsfan base diminish…
we will have the worst attendance home stadium turnout in all NFL next year
being real”
Kobe Faker
April 17th, 2019 at 11:52 am
Bobby in SC,
England is not really the other side of the world……. you should travel more.
April 17th, 2019 at 12:06 pm
Right smack dab in the middle of Church…..but will have the record on…..
I’m quite certain that will be the case for most of us……(well, maybe not)
April 17th, 2019 at 12:14 pm
TBBF,
Yeah, I won’t be in church.
April 17th, 2019 at 12:17 pm
@tmaxipadcon
There you go again, mired in all your miserableness. Not a positive comment in your head. Controlled opposition.
Move out of your mom’s basement, maxipad.
April 17th, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Doosh – some of us in SC know it is only a 8 hour flight. Be glad they aren’t playing in Australia.
April 17th, 2019 at 12:47 pm
The money rape of season ticket holders strikes again!
10 home games including 2 meaningless preseason games.
Which means 20% of your games are meaningless
This year 9 Home Games with 2 meaningless preseason games
Which means we are now paying an even higher percentage of our money to watch meaningless games.
Make everyone happy and play all preseason games somewhere else.
But that would go against the grain of the NFl’s system of how to screw your best fans!
April 17th, 2019 at 12:59 pm
A home game away is great !!! Makes season tkts cheaper !!
April 17th, 2019 at 1:26 pm
Ding-ding-ding….. yes, Australia is the other side of the world.
April 17th, 2019 at 1:35 pm
Bucs vs Giants September 22 @ 4:05pm. Giants schedule leaked
April 17th, 2019 at 1:57 pm
Well if you believe it we open with the 49ers so says NBC
April 17th, 2019 at 2:00 pm
NDOG FTW
“Surprise surprise mostly everyone is on here complaining and is not happy. Who would have guessed that?”
And speaking of complaining….Todd while I agree with your frustration at Tmax’s negativity you missed an historic occasion on JBF. Tmax actually started a post….”On a poistive note”!!!!
Of course Tmax is incapable of a POSITIVE note and followed that misleading phrase with a diatribe about the Buc’s “embarrassing” football. Some things never change.
April 17th, 2019 at 2:02 pm
I am glad it’s an October game : that usually means it’s 95 degree day in Tampa. I can let go of one super-humid tailgate w/o losing too much sleep.
April 17th, 2019 at 2:08 pm
Well at least we get a later bye week this season…
April 17th, 2019 at 2:22 pm
Just had a 49er fan tell me they open the season against us in Tampa. I looked it up and seems to be a legit leak.
April 17th, 2019 at 2:24 pm
Maybe, we can all chip in and buy a couple ticket packages for Tmax and Kobe on that new ocean liner, I think it’s called the Titanic.
April 17th, 2019 at 4:34 pm
Another Glazer fail.Why are we losing another home game.If the NFL wants us to play over there let it be someonelse’s home game.
April 17th, 2019 at 7:25 pm
Wembley or Tottenham? Trying to buy plane tickets right now!!!!!!