Happy Fourth Of July!
July 4th, 2026
Happy freaking Fourth of July!
Today is Joe’s favorite holiday. Thanksgiving is second. Today is like Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, all rolled into one big ol’ star-spangled fireworks show!
The only thing missing is live football.
Today is all about fun. Maybe hitting the beach (if there’s sun), hitting the water (if there is no rain), drinking like a fish, grilling cattle, hog, chicken, buffalo and whatever animal you like, plenty of cold beer and tonight, watching people blow up stuff (which drives howling dogs throughout [oh, no] Pasco County running for couch pillows to tear up).
Please don’t be like JPP.
It’s also the height of summer when women wear scant clothing to show off bronzed bodies fresh from frolicking under the sun. What exactly is wrong with that? Not one GD thing.
And rain doesn’t mean the ladies have to wear burkas.
Celebrate your freedoms, Bucs fans. Celebrate a new-look Bucs defense. Celebrate the team finally breaking down and getting an edge rusher (two in fact!). Celebrate another year of Baker Mayfield (and maybe more). Celebrate the fact the Bucs play in the NFL’s outhouse division. Celebrate!
Joe hopes all readers have a helluva day and fully enjoy this alcohol-fueled weekend to celebrate Uncle Sam’s birthday — 250 friggin’s years!
Training camp is a few short weeks away!
(No, Joe has no JPP one-liners for today. Way too easy, man.)
For the fifth year in a row, James & Kirk took to the field to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" during Metallica Night with the @SFGiants! pic.twitter.com/oljIBBfPD1
— Metallica (@Metallica) August 8, 2017
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If you were not there, some of tonight’s #Pirates Drone show celebrating the USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/F2yc2eWdi2
— Bob Pompeani (@KDPomp) May 30, 2026
July 4th, 2026 at 7:16 am
Thanksgiving is number one for me. A butt load of food, family, football and whatever swill is your favorite.
July 4th, 2026 at 7:31 am
Happy 4th of July to you Joe(s) and Ira. THANK YOU for your hard and dedicated work, and for supplying us with many articles of our Bucs (especially at this slow time of year).
July 4th, 2026 at 7:34 am
All ready to go for the BBQ: ribs, wings, poppers, and corn on the cob. Angels Envy and Oliva cigars while enjoying the view of my girlfrend!
July 4th, 2026 at 7:39 am
Attended a bicentennial concert at the Old Sombrero 50 years ago:
Eagles
Fleeteood Mac
Logging & Messina
Dan Fogelberg
Admission $10
How the prices & Music have changed.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!
July 4th, 2026 at 8:39 am
Happy 4th. Beef ribs, watermelon, and cold beer. Waiting till dusk for the firework show. I don’t always drink IPA’s but they hit different in the mornings. Go Bucs!
July 4th, 2026 at 8:49 am
Happy birthday America. Let’s enjoy the American Freedom to the max today.
Be safe and enjoy the day all!
July 4th, 2026 at 8:50 am
I miss the old 4th photo of the girl with the bomb pop. What changed with you joe?
July 4th, 2026 at 9:26 am
Should I go out and celebrate? I mean hmmm, the “youth and teens” seem to target days like this to try to ruin it for everyone else….i think i’ll just stay home….im tired anyway from working 14 days in a row…plus the gym is calling me….maybe thats where i’ll be while the fireworks are going off.
July 4th, 2026 at 9:32 am
Happy 4th everyone.
July 4th, 2026 at 9:52 am
Happy Birthday to the greatest country on Earth.
$1,800 in fireworks…. it better not rain.
July 4th, 2026 at 10:40 am
Well my people were still slaves on this day so it wasn’t freedom for us infact George Washington himself sold slaves and broke up family’s and also bought slaves. So this wasn’t freedom for my people in fact that’s when they brought more of us here. June teenth should be the celebration of independence day for all Americans not the 4th of July.
July 4th, 2026 at 10:49 am
It’s a strange feeling having celebrated the 200th Independence Day and now the 250th Independence Day
🇺🇸🫡🙏❤️💪
and that one 4th of July in Vietnam
July 4th, 2026 at 10:50 am
[No need to get personal on a day like this. You did a helluva lot more for our country than most of us. And for that Joe salutes you! 🫡Enjoy the day man! — Joe]
July 4th, 2026 at 11:19 am
Oneil woe is me.
You poor thing it’s the 4th and it’s always going to be the 4th.
July 4th, 2026 at 11:33 am
(Said in the voice of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in “Full Metal Jacket.”)
Outstanding!
July 4th, 2026 at 11:35 am
The Goo-Gal. smh 🙁
July 4th, 2026 at 11:36 am
That’s a helluva yacht rock lineup.
July 4th, 2026 at 11:37 am
Another strong lineup!
July 4th, 2026 at 11:37 am
1987 . I know and that’s why I don’t celebrate it either just like y’all don’t celebrate June teenth and that’s the day everyone was set free in this country. So if that doesn’t matter to you are to the rest of America then the 4th of July is being celebrated only for one race of people and not the other people that were here also. I know the truth hurts 🤕🤕
July 4th, 2026 at 11:48 am
We have a hotel in downtown St Pete and will mingle with the crowd and watch the fireworks by the new Pier tonight
🇺🇸🫡💪❤️🙏🇺🇸
July 4th, 2026 at 12:19 pm
Oneilbuccs-
The Emancipation Proclamation was Jan 1, 1863
Juneteenth is a day when Union soldiers informed Texas of end of Civil War and began enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas.
July 4th, 2026 at 12:55 pm
[The spirit of this thread is being abused. Sorry. — Joe]
July 4th, 2026 at 1:20 pm
Hey, Happy Independence Day, everyone.
July 4th, 2026 at 1:52 pm
Happy Independence Day! 😁
July 4th, 2026 at 3:44 pm
Think God for Lincoln !!