Chucky Finds Out Today About His Duties On Saturday Night
August 17th, 2026
“Hey Tirico, I’m f’ing coming for your @#$%^&* job! At least I can tell Collinsworth to STFU!”
In honor of Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Chucky returning to the broadcast booth to call the Chiefs-Bucs worthless preseason game, Joe will have a daily story about Chucky in the lead-up to Saturday’s game.
To paraphrase the first coach to lead the Bucs to a Super Bowl title, Joe is fired up to hear Chucky in the Bucs’ broadcast booth Saturday night.
As JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman reported weeks ago, Chucky is going to broadcast an NFL game. It turned out that game is a Bucs preseason game this Saturday night on WFLA-TV, Channel 8.
Chucky will join Bucs preseason color analyst Rondé Barber in the booth when the Bucs host the Chiefs in each teams’ second worthless preseason game.
Chris Myers, the preseason TV voice of the Bucs, has a FOX work conflict and will miss the game.
Earlier in training camp, Chucky spoke with the local pen and mic club about the assignment.
“I’ve heard I’m doing play-by-play, but I don’t know if we’ve solved anything,” Chucky said. “It’s going to be Rondé’s show. He’s the star.”
Chucky said he and Barber will have a production meeting today with WFLA types to hatch a plan for the broadcast.
“We’re going to finalize the cadence,” Chucky said. “But I’m excited. I’m a little bit nervous, and as always, really fired up for football season, especially the Buccaneers.”
If Chucky and Barber pull this off the right way, it could be groundbreaking and may change broadcasting. Seriously. The game isn’t serious, so why should the broadcasters be?
Joe thinks Chucky and Barber should treat the game like a podcast, with the game sort of telling the two what to talk about. You know, sort of like sports radio.
Like if Ted Hurst makes a play, bad or good, the two could discuss how Hurst can adjust from Georgia State to the NFL and Barber could explain how defenses may attack him. Chucky could then explain why Hurst’s measurements could give defenses a challenge and maybe how he would use him.
This experiment has a chance to be awesome, or it could be a train wreck. Regardless, Joe is stoked for Saturday night. Yes, even a worthless preseason game.
August 17th, 2026 at 7:09 am
Joe will have a daily story about Chucky in the lead-up to Saturday’s game.
Marvelous!!!
However, truth be told, you can NEVER get ’nuff Chucky!!!
I look forward to the articles and look forward to Saturday!
I wonder if Taylor Swift-Kelce will be there as well
You could have an article about her too everyday!! =)
August 17th, 2026 at 7:33 am
A story a day for this? Well. Okay.
August 17th, 2026 at 7:54 am
Should be fun.
August 17th, 2026 at 8:06 am
I’m almost as interested in their talk as I am in watching the players.
August 17th, 2026 at 8:06 am
Good luck with your “duties” Chucky boy…
I can hardly wait!
August 17th, 2026 at 8:32 am
“Duties”.
That’s ironic.
Every time Gruden made those re-tarded faces on the sideline it looked like he made “duties” in his pants…
I’m sorry but “Chuck” is overrated to say the least.
Look at what he did to the Bucs after the SB.
Look at what he did to the Raiders with his little BSPN buddy Mike Mayock.
They destroyed that franchise with the worst drafts in NFL history.
Gruden and Mayock made Matt Millen look like a football genius.
LOL!
August 17th, 2026 at 8:37 am
Kudos Joe, you were able to use the word worthless three times in one post! That may be a record. But we still have a few weeks to go. Fingers crossed…
August 17th, 2026 at 8:56 am
I don’t care for ‘Chucky’. Even though he got us a SB with Dungys team.
August 17th, 2026 at 9:03 am
“I don’t care for ‘Chucky’. Even though he got us a SB with Dungys team.”
Same, I think at this point in his career he’s doing alot of this stuff just to have some relevance in the football world. Fam is a helluva drug.
August 17th, 2026 at 9:07 am
@ warrin
“Fam is a helluva drug.”
I agree with you buddy.
Family is also my drug of choice.
My family is my true source of knowledge and power throughout the years…
August 17th, 2026 at 9:19 am
LOL @ Marine
Way to play a typo
August 17th, 2026 at 9:30 am
“Are you freakin kidding me. Are you freakin kidding me. Come on man.” We need Chucky back as head coach. I really miss the entertainment value. Plus he is relentless with players that don’t give 100% or screw up. We seem to have a number of those kind of guys.
August 17th, 2026 at 9:50 am
Yep buc4evr Need Chuckie back since Arians Hes passionate and entertaining and really likes the bucs
August 17th, 2026 at 9:50 am
I’ll actually watch a preseason game because of this.
August 17th, 2026 at 10:07 am
Chucky would be better than Todd.
August 17th, 2026 at 10:47 am
in the end he was one of our worst coaches, after his first year here. Since winning Super Bowl XXXVII on January 26, 2003 (which i attended in San Diego), Jon Gruden’s combined regular-season head coaching record with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Las Vegas Raiders is 79–86. He spent a lot of time exchanging racist emails when he should have been trying to improve his team. But it wouldn’t have mattered, he wouldn’t have improved the team, because he just forgot how, or maybe he never knew. At this point, I don’t consider him a serious person.
August 17th, 2026 at 10:56 am
Chucky will join Bucs preseason color analyst Rondé Barber
Was this a racial crack