Bucs Training Camp Tickets Still Available; Is Price Stopping Fans?
July 10th, 2025
Joe has done the exhausting research.
Twenty-six NFL teams have free training camp dates open to the general public. Four teams have an entry fee (the Bucs are in that camp). Two other clubs are in a different category.
They would be Carolina — no fans allowed because of construction — and San Francisco, which has yet to announce camp details.
Among the 26 teams with free dates for all fans, an average of nine practices per team are open to every fan. The Bucs, however, have just three training camp practices open to the general public — for a price of $10.75 per ticket. The Bucs also have six dates devoted to special interest groups/season ticket holders.
Joe is not counting Seattle as a team with free training camp. The Seahawks require a $15 transportation fee tied to parking lot shuttles that take fans to practice fields. Parking for training camp is free at One Buc Palace.
As of today, nine days after the Bucs announced their training camp plans and offers, tickets remain available for the three practices open to the general public, July 24, July 25 and Aug. 7.
Joe wonders whether the $10.75 price tag (including TicketMaster fees and tax) is a barrier to many low-income fans. If so, that would be sad considering 80 percent of NFL teams have free training camp dates open to all.
Joe sure hopes the Bucs’ dates open to the Average Joes sell out. It’s great for everyone involved to have a lively, engaged crowd.
As Todd Bowles said last year: “It’s training camp. The fans are supposed to be out here.”
July 10th, 2025 at 1:43 pm
ELEVEN BUCKS TO SWELTER! That’s a hard pass…….better to charge $25 bucks to go inside in AC and watch Wirfs do his re-hab….
July 10th, 2025 at 1:51 pm
Wishing they have the fans there. Unfortunately, it seems expensive for an average family bringing their kids. Also, at 8:30 a.m. many are at work or planning to go to work.
July 10th, 2025 at 1:57 pm
Not worth it. Especially since half the action is probably is on another field.
July 10th, 2025 at 2:17 pm
Too hot too many no deodorant wearers
July 10th, 2025 at 2:18 pm
This used to be free
July 10th, 2025 at 2:19 pm
I’m seriously late to the party. I am floored that the Bucs charge fans to attend practice. Shameful! My guess is that those practices are seriously watered down too due to all of the cell phones present. But really….just shameful Glazers.
July 10th, 2025 at 2:23 pm
I agree with Lt. Dan … I had no clue, what a joke. I’m guessing they charge to park to attend a practice as well?
July 10th, 2025 at 2:28 pm
And the Bucs used to have a FanFest.
And the Bucs used to have a night practice at the stadium.
And the Bucs had far more practices open to the general public.
And the practices used to be free.
(Anyone notice a pattern?)
July 10th, 2025 at 2:40 pm
Should be free to sweat and free for the kids not in school and their parents
July 10th, 2025 at 2:51 pm
The $10.75 isn’t too bad unless you’re bringing a lot of kids. I’m sure a bottle of water costs more than a a trip to the moon. For me it’s a matter of health and the fact that my car probably wouldn’t make it past malfunction junction. Even if it did that pig would use $100 in gas. I’m in Orlando.
July 10th, 2025 at 3:15 pm
What’s sick is that it’s cheaper to go to a Bucs practice than it is to go to the movies. I’m against charging fans for any time spent where an actual W/L isn’t in play, but the times have changed. And the NFL will never miss a chance to cash in on an eager fan’s wallet.
July 10th, 2025 at 3:18 pm
@Joe’s: You have, on occasion, access to the royal Glazer “ear” I suspect. Perhaps you can express the outrage of the normal fan about charging to watch practice. Look, I live 12 hours (as the F150 flies) north of Tampa. So this isn’t about me making it to any practices and not wanting, or being able to pay. Charging to watch practices just smacks of pettiness and greed on a level I’ve never seen.
July 10th, 2025 at 3:39 pm
If I still worked in Tampa I would definitely go! Seems like a deal
July 10th, 2025 at 3:45 pm
I’m kinda meh, I don’t think it’s really the money. Aren’t we talking about the price of a cup of beer out?
Of all the things I hated to see go it was this one Joe noted…
“And the Bucs used to have a night practice at the stadium.”
I agree with Kipling! “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”
A night practice could be turned into an EVENT…something to begin building fan enthusiasm as the season approached. Ten bucks for that would be nothing although if the Glazers wanted a home run it would be a Night Practice to benefit Darcie’s favorite cause of the moment and let people simply make donations.
July 10th, 2025 at 3:53 pm
I would love to go. Problem is, all of the camp dates that are open to the general public are on weekday mornings. People have jobs.
July 10th, 2025 at 3:54 pm
The Bucs are missing out on great PR opportunity – have a free practice at Raymond James. Charge for concessions. They might draw 20k people and make some fans.
July 10th, 2025 at 4:02 pm
Going to go to at least one, either the 24th, 25th, or the jr Bucs Sunday with my daughter. Just waiting for my schedule to be released for that week before I spend 10$ on a non refundable ticket
July 10th, 2025 at 4:27 pm
seriously, how much money can they make on this? I have no idea how many tickets are available per practice. 500 maybe. so they make 5k? Really, I can’t believe the Glazers are in it for the money. There has to be another reason.
Free practices would create more in merch sales if they have a shop or even a tent to set up.
July 10th, 2025 at 4:30 pm
A lot of you are forgetting that the fan engagement had dwindled greatly during the Raheem era and beyond. You could show up to a free practice with an entire crew during the Raheem era and have no issues finding a nice spot under cover on the bleachers. They needed to be free at that time. Now they cost money and you still have to show up an hour early to maybe find open spot available in the bleachers. Brady completely blew the doors off one buc in regards to fan engagement and it has persisted due to the very intriguing and talented roster Licht has put together.
July 10th, 2025 at 4:32 pm
Hugh Culverhouse paid the NFL 16 million in 1974 for the Bucs franchise . After his death, his family sold the team to the Glazers in 1995 for 192 million. Now the team is worth 6-7 billions. The NFL is a money making enterprise now, everything sells.
July 10th, 2025 at 4:32 pm
Nope. I’ll just read jobucsfan and and use my imagination.
July 10th, 2025 at 4:39 pm
stpetebucsfan – Great idea, night practice as an event. Donations welcomed.
July 10th, 2025 at 4:51 pm
Careful Dewey, Joe might decide to start charging for Bucs updates
July 10th, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Voyager, if they did there must be more pictures of Eachel Warson and the Panthers bathroom cheerleaders.
July 10th, 2025 at 5:03 pm
Rachel Watson. Eachel Warson is her temu version
July 10th, 2025 at 5:20 pm
I’ll probably go to one of the practices once I get better certainty on my schedule…if there are still any tickets by the time I can choose a date.
$10.75 is OK for a single individual, but for someone who has a large family and is financially challenged, that could be an issue. I wish it were free for those people because if they can’t afford that, they’ll never be able to afford to go to a game.
They should do a free night practice at Raymond James and collect donations for the people in Texas who just experienced a disastrous flood situation. If they brought in a couple of music groups who wanted to help with the charity, and play just before the practice, they could fill up the stadium.
July 10th, 2025 at 5:30 pm
It probably costs more for the Ticketmaster “convenience fees” than for the tickets themselves….
So its likely $25 or more per ticket once Ticketmaster gets done with you….
July 10th, 2025 at 5:40 pm
Gone are the great old days when you just pulled up to U of Tampa and went to the field…
July 10th, 2025 at 5:53 pm
Miss the days at Pepin Stadium, Disney and One Buc Place when we could just show up. And when we could get the cool training camp shirts that actually said we were there. Go Bucs! 😀🏈
July 10th, 2025 at 6:06 pm
@Pickgrin, $10.75 looks like the total, including any fees and sales tax.
July 10th, 2025 at 6:10 pm
Why would you want to pay for that?!
July 10th, 2025 at 6:43 pm
I wouldn’t pay to watch any team practice.
By the way if tax payers are supplementing the stadium why are we giving the owners more money? Maybe Trump will fix this too.
July 10th, 2025 at 6:48 pm
I do not know how many tickets they sell but it can’t be worth the bad vibe and lost opportunities. Go to a practice free and you are a fan for life who will likely buy some game tickets and merch, at the least. My son got a cold popsicle from a pretty cheerleader and a signature from Jonathan Casillas on a Bucs cap and he has been a Bucs lover ever since.
July 10th, 2025 at 7:12 pm
Yup and the seats they give us fans facing east right into the rising sun. Could have them any other direction and to get some shade. But nope. This team is so out of touch on how to accommodate fans in the heat. Anyone ever see a packed stadium for all 3 hours at a 1pm early season home game? No thanks. Go Bowles!
July 10th, 2025 at 7:56 pm
The third date is August the 1st not the 7th, just in case you wanted to join. Not to be the correction police, but wanted to clarify. ✌🏻 Go Bucs!
July 10th, 2025 at 8:19 pm
Verified…10.75 included fees…FYI….
July 10th, 2025 at 9:18 pm
$10.75 for PRACTICE??!?! Next, you’ll be reporting that they are charging full price for preseason games!!
July 10th, 2025 at 9:25 pm
It’s a business first. Always has been but sometime around the turn of the century, maybe a little earlier they started printing money for the owners with the tv deals. That dragged in all the carpet baggers.
Not many owners left where their primary/only business is football.
Maximum profits all the time.
July 10th, 2025 at 11:15 pm
The last thing poor people should be doing is attending Bucs practices, they need to be out working and being productive members of society before AI replaces them completely.
July 11th, 2025 at 12:03 am
I don’t know much but I do know that in 2025 Eleven dollars doesn’t go far. That being said I believe the ownership group would be better served opening up some practices for free. The Goodwill gesture would surely be worth more. At least I’d argue that point.
July 11th, 2025 at 12:15 am
snack wraps are back at mickey dees……ohh boy…!
currently 2.99 a pop…
so 10.75 can get you 3 snack wraps and a dollar soda to wash it down…
it’s a tough call……snack wraps for lunch, or the bucs playing footsie
July 11th, 2025 at 12:42 am
adam, I took 2 grandkids out to the movies today. 2 kids tickets and one senior ticket. About 9 bucks each. How to train your dragon I think was the title. Worth every dang penny, one of the best movies I’ve seen. Now if I spent 10 dollars to eat McDonalds I’d be ashamed of myself. I guess to each his own.