Creamsicles And Pewter
April 1st, 2021
Bucs hoping (someday) to wear the creamsicles for a throwback day.
Fans want it. Players (including Tom Brady) want it.
And Bucs fans, so too does Team Glazer want it. But the NFL doesn’t. At least not now.
Until the NFL loosens a rule, the creamsicle uniforms will remain in our closets, our memories and in fuzzy NFL Films videos on YouTube and Twitter.
Nothing, it seems, gets football fans revved up than talking uniforms. And Bucs fans have clamored for a Throwback Day and to breakout those beautiful creamsicles for years.
The NFL passed a 2013 rule stating players could only use one helmet per season. The NFL cited data suggesting changing helmets may lead to more concussions. The Bucs, rightly, think it is wrong to wear a pewter helmet with the creamsicles rather than the traditional Bucco Bruce white helmets, so the Bucs have yet to wear the creamsicles since the rule change.
In 2019, Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians thought the NFL was going to change the rule to allow teams to wear different helmets. That hasn’t happened.
Still, as he noted yesterday in a rare press conference (via Zoom), Buccaneers co-chairman Joel Glazer said he keeps lobbying the NFL to relax the rule.
“We are constantly at the league’s doorstep to get them to move so that we can wear our throwbacks,” Glazer said. “We are not there yet, but there are discussions going on. Hopefully, at some point in the future that will happen because we know how popular they are with our fans.”
That wasn’t all the uniform talk. Glazer is giddy about how positive the reaction has been to last year’s uniform change to a more classic NFL look, along with an all-pewter alternative uniform that the team unveiled.
“It was unbelievably well-received,” Glazer said. “It was great to see a little more traditional look than we have had in the past. Our players liked it. Our fans liked it. It all worked out. It all went together well.”
How could Glazer not be happy? In the first year of those uniforms, which are very similar to the classic pewter-and-red of the Bucs’ glory days, the team won a Super Bowl.
April 1st, 2021 at 3:34 am
it’ll be a thing of beauty to see tom tossing tds in the creamsicles…
this is the year to do it…
on primetime – a night game will be fire!
April 1st, 2021 at 4:22 am
I’ll never, ever understand how the previous uniforms were approved of after Nike created that crap.
I know it wouldn’t be the same, but they could still do some kind of throwback day at the stadium for a game. Deck it out in orange and get “Hey, Hey, Tampa Bay” playing.
Or even mix the old with the new. Orange uniforms and current helmets. Yeah, it doesn’t go together, but do what you need to do to break out the old jerseys and orange pants!
April 1st, 2021 at 5:09 am
Bring on the creamsicles. Got my Ricky Reynolds ready to represent our colors and vibe with Brady and Co.
April 1st, 2021 at 5:13 am
I don’t understand why they haven’t thought to just wrap the helmets with white vinyl like they do car wraps?
April 1st, 2021 at 5:17 am
If you do it every game Joel they wont stop ya! Have a pewter throwback game once they relax the rule. Do it. Do it. Bring back the cream
April 1st, 2021 at 5:37 am
In ‘97 the Bucs changed uniforms to this scheme and became winners for the first time in years. Last year they changed them back and won the Super Bowl.
Love the unis! To quote the great Michael Scott, “I’m not superstitious but I’m a little ‘stitious.”
April 1st, 2021 at 6:02 am
So freaking stupid! People and their rules and the amount of time required to make a simple decision or change.
April 1st, 2021 at 6:02 am
This is so frustrating. Every other team can wear their throwbacks. To those who say “their ugly, they’re loser uniforms”. Bullspit. For some diehards like myself, those early Bucs are part of our childhood memories. They lost the first 26 but the drive to the super bowl in 1979 as a 4 year franchise was magic! Far from losers. A turnaround like never before…
April 1st, 2021 at 6:20 am
Argh, does that mean Bruce on the helmet???
April 1st, 2021 at 6:55 am
I always said they should put the flag logo on a white helmet and go back to the orange and white full time. Best of both worlds.
April 1st, 2021 at 6:57 am
The ugliest and softest looking uniforms ever IMO, second worst is the alarm clock uni’s. Look, i became a Bucs fan when they wore those in the late 80’s, loved the team, hated the uniforms. When we changed them in the Dungy Era i was so dang exited and proud. But that’s just me.
Please no.
April 1st, 2021 at 7:05 am
So we have the ability wrap a car, or even a bus, with ads, without damaging the car, but we can’t wrap a helmet without damaging it?
April 1st, 2021 at 7:13 am
A pic of Schiano and Freeman shaking hands?
That’s a pic of 1000 words.
Caption should read, “Let’s agree to end each other’s NFL career. Deal.”
April 1st, 2021 at 7:47 am
@ ALM – Ricky Reynolds throwback..? Nice!! When I travel to RayJay from VA I rock my Steve Spurrier throwback!
April 1st, 2021 at 8:06 am
Not sure what Joe is smoking. There is no way in he!! I never want to see those uniforms ever again. I cringe when i see any orange uniforms. Orange uniforms is symbolic of losing
April 1st, 2021 at 8:23 am
WillieG and Bucsd04,
I’ve mentioned the wrap idea before. Seems so simple and only has to last 3 hours.
Someone needs to figure this out!
The Creamsicles are awesome, just don’t ever go back to the orange pants….. those were terrible.
April 1st, 2021 at 8:25 am
Billy Bob,
I’d argue the alarm clock Winston unis are the worst and signify more losing.
At least with the Creamsicles we made it to the NFC championship game in 1979.
April 1st, 2021 at 8:29 am
Why can’t they just ‘wrap’ the existing helmets then remove the wrap after the game?
April 1st, 2021 at 8:38 am
Billy Bob, I’m with you in your opinion. I’ve been to a large bunch of great sports cities over my life and it seems no fan base covets their old uniforms more than Bucs fan. The obsession with the creamsicle uniforms is bizarre. It represents an era associated with being a loser and the worst professional franchise in sports.
If you’re going to have a throwback then throwback to the uniforms where the Bucs won their first Super Bowl. The Buccaneers are a franchise that needs to disassociate themselves from losing as much as possible. They just won the Super Bowl and one of the biggest topics of conversation this off season is about the creamsicles. It’s not only on this site. It’s all over.
April 1st, 2021 at 8:40 am
I actually feel the pewter with those orange tops and white pants would look pretty good. At least as a compromise.
April 1st, 2021 at 8:43 am
I say they play preseason games in the Creamsicles.
April 1st, 2021 at 9:15 am
Love the cream cycle uniforms. We surprised and beat Philly in a big upset wearing that very uniform. I was at the ole sombrero watching that game too and will never forget it ever.
April 1st, 2021 at 9:27 am
Paranoia over orange uniforms signifying losing? Ridiculous.
Like I said, fans should be proud of the youngest team to make a championship game(at that time). And the lot they had to pick from in expansion was basically nothing. Most of the team was very, very young..and if Williams and Lee Roy play the 2nd half in the championship game in 79, they could have been Super Bowl bound.
Losers?
Bennett, Testaverde eras were losers, not the team I started cheering for.
Playoffs 3 of 4 years before Culverhouse booted Doug.
April 1st, 2021 at 9:41 am
Couldn’t they just use stickers on the helmets and then swap out the face mask?
April 1st, 2021 at 10:00 am
That’s a great picture of Coach Schiano. I had high hopes for him and the Bucs, when he came to Tampa.
April 1st, 2021 at 10:08 am
The uniform changes last year were fantastic. Of course now they won a Super Bowl with them so they better not change for a long time.
But yes, they absolutely need to have a throwback day with the Creamsicle ‘s.
The helmet rule is such crap. Just get some new helmets with
Bucco Bruce (Arians?) on it. It’s not like they’re going to wear 1970s technology.
I figure they have two years to get it done because everyone needs to see Tom Brady wearing the Creamsicle‘s
April 1st, 2021 at 10:15 am
Hope to never see those uniforms or the Burger King uniforms again. I don’t understand why anyone wants to be reminded this was one of the most laughed at and worst teams in the NFL.
April 1st, 2021 at 10:30 am
Just change out Orange for the Red (and vice-versa) and you have the new design incorporating a tribute to the beginning. It’s not the old Creamsicles, but it would be a sharp compromise. In fact a few people more resourceful than me have posted the design out there.
April 1st, 2021 at 10:31 am
“ The NFL cited data suggesting changing helmets may lead to more concussions.”
NFL “data” also says that there’s no connection between concussions and CTE.
April 1st, 2021 at 11:22 am
The only game the Bucs have won in those creamsicles this century was the first time against the Pack in 2009 and that was with Josh Failman. I prefer not to have the scab on all those horrible years pealed back. Burn the creamsicles in the furnace and make them gone forever.
April 1st, 2021 at 11:56 am
All my childhood Buc memories are in the creamsicle uniforms! Yes it was mostly losing but that’s what makes it so nostalgic. The NFL has to allow Tom Brady to wear that uniform. Goodness I would swoon seeing that.
April 1st, 2021 at 1:20 pm
TampaTown,
Exactly.
I remember how excited I would get as a kid when walking out from inside the old Sombrero and seeing those bright orange jerseys!
It’s burned into my memory and I miss seeing them.
April 1st, 2021 at 2:05 pm
(CB pulls a 90’s PC saying and tosses it out:)
“Wrap that Rascal!”
April 1st, 2021 at 2:06 pm
The creamsicle uni’s were not ugly.
The losing was.
Unfortunately, the two became equivalent…
April 1st, 2021 at 2:07 pm
I’ve never understood that rule. The NFL can’t afford to make safe white helmets? Please help me understand this.
April 1st, 2021 at 5:41 pm
Only the NFL could make this complicated.
April 1st, 2021 at 8:43 pm
Shaqs Doug Williams jersey the most bad ass jersey I’ve ever seen.
April 2nd, 2021 at 7:37 am
Ugly color, but for a throwback game, HELL YES!
I think it’s a lot easier to accept these unis AFTER winning 2 Lombardis.
April 2nd, 2021 at 7:42 am
I would LOVE to see us destroy a team in the creamsicle unis.
This is the last bit left to get closure on the REPUS BOWL days of yore.
Put Tom in the creamsicle!
April 2nd, 2021 at 8:10 am
Lamar Sparkman the cartoonist of the Tampa Tribune created Bucco Bruce. Bruce was modeled after Errol Flynn and looked like him too. Lamar also created wonderful cartoons of the Buc Bomber , an old biplane with McKay at the controls and quipping madly as he was prone to do.
April 2nd, 2021 at 12:04 pm
Just asking??? Why can’t they keep their same Helmets and pay some MacDaddy Air Brush Artist come in and paint The Pewter Old School!!!! Same Helmet different look!!!! Long Live Creamsicle
April 2nd, 2021 at 1:24 pm
I don’t see why they can’t have two helmets made exactly the same way ( safety enhanced) except for the color and logos they would be identical. I’m sure the Glazers could afford that if they truly wanted to do throwbacks.
April 6th, 2021 at 11:15 pm
Nuke the Crudsicles