Lavonte David Rips Old Bucs Uniforms
August 6th, 2025
Joe’s nightmares about The Lost Decade of Buccaneers football rarely include the heinous uniforms from 2014 through 2019, but it does remain mindblowing that a thinking human being actually approved the Bucs wearing them.
Even Lavonte David seems to still be in shock.
Joe sure hopes Team Glazer made a bunch of money by changing from the Bucs’ post-creamsicle red and pewter uniforms to the bizarre mess that came next.
David opened up on the subject during his recent appearance on Green Light with Chris Long.
Long called them perhaps the worst uniforms in NFL history. “If they threw those fu**’n alarm clock uniforms on me, I wouldn’t even know what to do.”
David explained the challenge of feeling like a great football player in those heinous uniforms (pictured above).
“It was hard, man, it was really hard,” David said. “You couldn’t even coordinate it with anything. The numbers was crazy. It was just a lot going on. The pants felt too big. The jersey felt too big. With the way they looked, it didn’t even seem like it fit on you. It was just an awkward time.”
Look good and you feel good? If you buy into that, those Bucs really had no chance.
Joe would love to see Team Glazer do the right thing — and the entertaining thing — and offer a jersey buy-back of those brutal memories. Maybe serve up a new Bucs t-shirt for every jersey of that era returned, and simultaneously give one Bucs t-shirt to charity as well.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:09 am
Being a fan since day 1, I’m not a fan of the creamsicles. Love the current unis , but save the creamsicles for preseason games.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:12 am
I thought my respect and admiration for this man was as great as it could be, but it is boundless.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:18 am
I attended games in the ear;y years. Newer fans forget how lousy the teams were back then. Long time fans were thrilled when the Bucs changed to pewter & red, Not that unies change performance but the team has had much more success after the change, Use the old unies during pre-season games!
August 6th, 2025 at 10:21 am
Right on, Bobby Fenton.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:22 am
The creamsicles have a classic vibe as it’s from the 70’s era and made since to have throwbacks as that’s the original style. I cant say I loved the creamsicles but I respect their history. When the new uniform came in 97, it was love at first sight for me. We looked cooler and embraced the pirate theme with the new symbol. When we changed to the alarm clock style (along with other teams), I just thought this had to be about money as the style was just fugly, but the helmets were amazing. It made the creamsicles look even better to me. I joked with my friends that Brady demanded we get rid of the alarm clock uniforms before he would sign.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:22 am
CLOWN SHOW LOL!!!!!
GO BUCS!!!!
August 6th, 2025 at 10:26 am
An now the Bucs have the best uniforms in the NFL Current an Throwback
August 6th, 2025 at 10:29 am
admirable effort to look like a pirate, which is a relatively authentic identity that is worth pursuing unlike most sports teams, but it just didnt work, came across like a digital alarm clock
August 6th, 2025 at 10:33 am
Purchased a Lavonte one in the Team Store when i was in Tampa to see the Bucs v Giants. Still have it but embarrassed to wear it so it is confined to storage. Please offer a trade in or a discount lol.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:33 am
They are so bad that they are the only jersey style not on display at One Buc Place.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:33 am
The Creamsicle uniforms fit 0-26 and 16 losing seasons out of 19 just perfectly.
As a fan, I’m insulted that these are brought back. All it does is honor Hugh Culvertard and his Deep South ways. Doug Williams. Bo Jackson. Drafting the wrong player. The lost decade was not inept when compared to what the creamsicles represent. Infamy.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:34 am
How about a halftime show burning a pile of fan alarm clock unis at midfield…
#3’s…
August 6th, 2025 at 10:36 am
Also a fan from day 1 and I love the creamsicles…in the past. I’m happy without throwbacks or gimmicks of any kind related to uniforms. My favorite is white over pewter. I guess I don’t mind the all pewter and actually would like to at least see what pewter over white would look like. (I do have an orange Selmon jersey which is very special to me.)
What were those all red monstrosities we had once or twice? Color rush? Those might have been worse than the alarm clocks. But it’s close, real close.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:55 am
I remember not liking the new uniforms with the bigger flag, but when I see pictures of like Sapp wearing the old helmet with the tiny flag and flat pewter to the now sparkled one, it looks like a off brand kid helmet! New uniforms are stellar…I did like the chrome face mask with it better though
August 6th, 2025 at 11:03 am
I’m a fan of the creamsicle uniforms. Not a believer in jinx’s or hexes. Plus, not being a 50+ year old fan, the orange is a great fit that I’m sure the players love to rock.
Look good feel good right?
August 6th, 2025 at 11:16 am
Whichever Glazer concocted those alarm clocks should be written out of Malcolm’s trust fund.
August 6th, 2025 at 11:39 am
I believe Gerald McCoy had input on that design.
August 6th, 2025 at 11:40 am
Worst jersey in nfl history
August 6th, 2025 at 11:40 am
I hate the creamsicle unis. I sat through 0-26 watching the players wear them. Everyone in the NFL made fun of them, Bucco Bruce, and the media treated our players like s**t partially because of the uniforms.
Seems like the Bucs lose every time they wear them now. Time to dump them in Davy Jones locker forever.
August 6th, 2025 at 12:23 pm
Ugliest uniforms in the history of the league! I think
August 6th, 2025 at 12:52 pm
Someday they’ll be a fun quirky thing to wear. In some ways, if you own and wear one of these you are proving yourself as a fan. Those teams were bad and those jerseys were ugly, but you still represented them. A salute to these fans!
(I am one, with a McCoy jersey, even though he blocked me on Twitter)
August 6th, 2025 at 12:55 pm
The crimson jersey and pewter pants of 2002 were my favs. I can still see Alstott and Lynch crushing dudes in those.
August 6th, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Can I get some sort of buy back offer for my Devin White jersey????
Anyone? I’ll gladly take $2 for it…..
August 6th, 2025 at 1:26 pm
Like the first year whites, clean, classic. Ok with the creamsicles, but happy when they changed. That original pirate flag was a bit small but the one one the clock uni’s is way to big, like the uniforms David described. Forgot how hideous they were until that picture showing those 3 looking like little leaguers’ looking for the bus. Like the black face masks best, the current uni’s are good. I would have liked a laughing skull with crossed swords and wearing a bandana and eye patch ala One-Eyed Willie.
August 6th, 2025 at 1:37 pm
Right on, Lavonte! Horrible uniforms. Shame on Nike too. They should have known how bad the alarm clock numbers would look on the shirts.
Love the throwbacks!
August 6th, 2025 at 1:58 pm
I liked the alarm clock jerseys
August 6th, 2025 at 2:38 pm
Say what you want, you’re entitled to be dead wrong (and many of you are), but the creamsicles were always a great jersey. The teams that played in them? Not so much. Almost entirely because of the double-dipping clown that owned the team at the time. And by double dipping, I’m referring both t othe fact that he owned the Bucs but ran the Rams and the fact that he apparently liked to dip his wick in candles not his own.
August 6th, 2025 at 2:46 pm
That jersey was PEAK Nike garbage. It reeked of a conference room of 15 people who all had a contribution, so they used them all simultaneously.
August 6th, 2025 at 3:15 pm
Literally the ugliest NFL uniforms possible.
I refused to ever get a jersey during that period. And as a creative, I can’t fathom how anyone with a functioning brain ever thought they looked good in any way whatsoever.
Good effin riddance.
August 6th, 2025 at 6:29 pm
Imagine if Brady and the Bucs won the Super Bowl in the alarm clocks, we’d be married to those things forever.
August 6th, 2025 at 6:47 pm
And here I thought this would be an article about those hideous, PTSD inducing orange nightmares.
August 6th, 2025 at 7:08 pm
Hey, those uniforms were quite “fitting” for 2 of the 3 players in that pic.
August 6th, 2025 at 8:50 pm
Seeing those creamsicle units.
I watched those get beat like a drum for years and years.
I’d take the alarm clock units over those in a minute.
I’d love to see the Bucs incorporate more orange in their uniforms. Seems like red and Orange could make for a very cool Florida feel uniform.
But the Creamsicle are damn near traumatizing for me. Too many ruined Sundays.
August 7th, 2025 at 7:11 am
“”The Creamsicle uniforms fit 0-26 and 16 losing seasons out of 19 just perfectly.”
These uniforms should NEVER EVER be brought back. This team plays like shyt every time they do. They’re passive colors that seem to lessen the teams intensity needed to play successful NFL football.
August 7th, 2025 at 10:17 am
I agree with aqualung and BucU. The creamsicles were hideous. Even worse than the alarm clocks. The players are embarrassed the moment they run out of the tunnel. And they represent the disgraceful Culverhouse era. Wake up Glazers. Scrap that uniform forever!
August 7th, 2025 at 12:17 pm
We only had those atrocities for six years?! It felt like 35!! I’ve even retroactively affected my memory so that, in every year between Gruden’s collapse and the Super Bowl with BA, the players were wearing those unis. Who the eff thought that numbers representing the worst moment of every day—when the alarm goes off telling you to get your a$$ to work—would be a great way to celebrate Sundays?!?!
In honesty, it only buttresses the argument that Jason Licht deserves so much praise—only a truly impressive roster could coax a retired BA and then The GOAT to come here when those travesties were still on the rack when they agreed to come to Tampa! —remember, the new/old Unis weren’t announced until April of 2020!