The creamsicles are fresh in Chris Godwin’s mind.

Joe can sort of understand the pushback.

More and more Joe sees hatred in the comments on this here website for those beautiful creamsicles the Bucs have been pulling out of mothballs in recent years.

Some like them for the nostalgia. When many Bucs fans first became Bucs fans, it was Doug Williams throwing to Jimmie Giles and Lee Roy Selmon terrorizing quarterbacks wearing the creamsicles.

Some just like the classic style.

Others hated — for good reason — those heinous Jameis Winston alarm clock uniforms. Those things were so ugly it made folks want to puke. The creamsicles, no matter how much people hated them, were significantly better than the alarm clocks, which were a complete eyerake and an affront to Bucs fans.

And, there were those fans who equated creamsicles to losing. The Bucs became the losingest franchise in North America professional sports (the big four: NFL, MLB, NHL and the non-basketball association) wearing the creamsicles.

Chris Godwin wasn’t around for the creamsicles. He has zero memory of them because he was born after the creamsicles were retired.

So for Godwin, who for years was mentally abused and publicly embarrassed, forced to wear the alarm clocks. The creamsicles, to Godwin, are fresh and a welcome change of pace.

As Godwin told Mitch Goldich of SI.com, you won’t hear him badmouthing the creamsicles.

“We really enjoy the creamsicle jerseys,” Godwin said. “They are so aesthetically pleasing. The white ones (1976 creamsicle road uniforms) are, like we wore them for the first time last year, and those ones are like A-1 sick. And the home ones are just as nice, right?

“Like we’ve we’ve been really really pleased about [the creamsicles]. I think players like a switch up, but I think in terms of like historical jerseys, like classic jerseys, like that’s got to be up there towards the top with some of the best in the league.”

Joe sure won’t argue with that, though Joe is sure many Bucs fans will. Last year during Thursday Night Football, Al Michael said he wouldn’t be opposed if the Bucs returned the creamsicles to full-time home uniforms.

Thankfully, someone at One Buc Palace had the bright idea in 2020 to rid the franchise of the alarm clocks and bring back those Mike Alstott red-and-pewter uniforms. The Bucs should never have changed those.

The Bucs’ current red-and-pewter threads are some of the best in the NFL, but the team doesn’t often go red/pewter. That’s too bad.

Joe can also understand why some fans are worn out on the creamsicles since they were brought back as throwbacks. The Bucs continue the sorry tradition of losing while wearing those. Time to start a new tradition of winning wearing those.

Next year.