40 Percent Vikings Fans
September 27th, 2026
Was that a home game the Bucs lost today? It sure didn’t sound like it.
Joe’s got a bunch of photos from today’s 23-16 Vikings victory at The Licht House. They confirm what fans were seeing during the game: waves of purple all across the stadium.
JoeBucsFan.com talked to five people not in the press box about what percentage of the crowd was Vikings fans. The most common answer was 40 percent. The rest were at 50 percent. FOX game analyst Jonathan Vilma estimated 40 percent Vikings fans during todays’ broadcast.
Whatever the exact number was, it was a rough look for the second Tampa Bay home game of the season for a team with an allegedly popular quarterback and a lot of talented players.
Expect 50 percent or more Packers fans for next Sunday’s home game in Tampa. It’s already a near sellout (today was not).
Joe wonders how this looks from the owners’ suite. Green?
September 27th, 2026 at 11:10 pm
The Vikings invaded the Bucs’ stadium, and now the Cheeseheads are about to make Raymond James look like Lambeau South 😂🧀🏴☠️
At this rate, somebody’s gonna have to put a Raymond James leap (Lambeau leap) AREA FOR THEM in the end zone. LMAO 🐐💚💛
September 27th, 2026 at 11:11 pm
Definitely expect at least 50% black and gold on October 18th.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:12 pm
MVP MVP MVP!
September 27th, 2026 at 11:15 pm
This is also why Mike Evans left.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:15 pm
As a lifelong Bucs fan… outside of the 1998-2003 window, this is pretty typical.
Heck, at the old Tampa Stadium, it would be more like 50/50 or even where the Bucs fans were outnumber.
Franchise QB Baker Mayfield going 2-10 in the last 12 – mostly based on his own dumb boneheaded plays – and knowing that we’re tied to this bum for years to come thinks to the meddling owners, it sort of gives a feeling of no hope.
Maybe Daniels, if he starts, shows something and breathes some life back into the team – and if Daniels does play and look OK, it might even get Baker to snap out of his very extended slump.
In any case, winning cures all ills, and if the team wins, the fans will come back.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:15 pm
Maybe when it’s 50% Packer fans and 50% empty seats the Glazers will notice and make some changes long overdue (looking at you Bowles).
September 27th, 2026 at 11:16 pm
Someday you’ll finally figure out the entire Tampa Bay area is transplants. They are moving there more and more everyday. So why would they give up their teams and suddenly become Bucs fans? This was going on 15 years ago when I moved to Tallahassee and before that.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:17 pm
One of the many consequences of keeping Bowles as head coach. My only NFL team is the Bucs but I have no interest in going to a game as long as Bowles is still in charge.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:19 pm
If the team was really REALLY good and easy to root for every transplant would jump onboard… Its how the franchise has been mostly irrelevant throughout its history unfortunately.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:19 pm
‘74 Bucs Fan Says:
September 27th, 2026 at 11:15 pm
Maybe when it’s 50% Packer fans and 50% empty seats the Glazers will notice and make some changes long overdue (looking at you Bowles).
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And yes I know that math doesn’t math. But remember, 60% of the time, it works every time.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:20 pm
Finished 2025 2-7
Kept Todd
Paid Vita
Paid Baker
Where is there any chance of optimism?
September 27th, 2026 at 11:23 pm
That is the Glazer family secret formula. They making money regardless. Fans are angry, and we got sold unicorns and rainbows this off-season, but really got a still dysfunctional team that has been spiraling since last season. The crap division has masked the problem of a below average coach.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:23 pm
And the Bucs fans that actually do up when shown on tv look like the inbred clown school rejects they are. Guess they are as dumb as they look since they actually think the players or the Glazers care what they think. Glazers laugh at all of you.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:24 pm
Does anyone want to burn 300 dollars to go watch our backup lose by 30 to the pack?
no?
No point in being a paypig for this team at this point.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:26 pm
Love Anchorman 😂 74 Bucs Fan “Stay classy, Tampa Bay (San Diego).” 😂🏴☠️
September 27th, 2026 at 11:29 pm
We need a franchise qb
September 27th, 2026 at 11:30 pm
The Glazers probably should have known season tickets sales would plummet with Bowles returning but maybe they factored that in. They knew 2 NFC Nort and AFC North teams were comming to RJS which means seats filled for half the home games. This team is in freefall. After the Bucs are 0-5 or 1-4 after the Dallas game and the mini-bye, you might see changes as Koetter did when he fired Smitty, but do not count on it. Asfar as Bucs fans going to games? Who in their right mind would pay to see the hot garbage the Bucs have been putting on the field since last year’s bye? Hey Glazers, have you call McDermott or Tomlin’s agents yet?
September 27th, 2026 at 11:35 pm
I’ve pointed this out previously… but if I was an evil billionaire team owner, what better way to kill the interest of the fans than to give some bum quarterback a huge extension that cripples your team. This would make your fans lose all hope as they’d see nothing in their future but losing. It would kill any new stadium talks as fans would be disinterested in the team, and it would give you an easy way to move the team to London.
Not saying the Glazers are doing that, I’m just saying if I was the Glazers, and I wanted to move the team to a huge untapped major market, making Baker the face of the franchise would be a great way to kill off all fan interest in the franchise – and his deal would be expiring right when the team would be fleeing the country, the way that Evans fled to the other side of the country to get away from Baker.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:35 pm
GB has moved to -3 next week. If you didn’t bet when Bucs were -1.5, you probably lost out.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:38 pm
Well, lost out on practically guaranteed money. GB still covers easily with this bunch of sad sacks.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:39 pm
> Maybe when it’s 50% Packer fans and 50% empty seats the Glazers will notice and make some changes long overdue (looking at you Bowles).
Butts in seats are dollars in the bank, they don’t care what color the shirt.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
BPBucsfan, it was the moneyline that was key. Now you will have to pony up more coin on the Pack to win back $100, before you could have put down $100 and won about $120.
September 27th, 2026 at 11:52 pm
I look forward to seeing this team being quarterbacked by Daniels
September 28th, 2026 at 1:12 am
Joe – how much did season ticket sale plummet after they inexplicably retained Bowels last off season.
September 28th, 2026 at 1:16 am
Buttmunch: Ther are two places in the US that the Glazers could move the team to without disrupting the divisional alignments. Orlando or St Louis.
September 28th, 2026 at 1:17 am
welp, now a lot of fans got what they were asking for…
a team quarterbacked by daniels…that’s our qb now…
tom thumb is going to be sidelined for longer than you think – and that injury isn’t just going to go away either…it’ll linger loudly or quietly for the rest of the season, even if he does get back under center
September 28th, 2026 at 1:18 am
noodle arm jake browning……i wonder what he’s thinking right about now 🙂
September 28th, 2026 at 1:29 am
Bucs do not release that information.
September 28th, 2026 at 1:41 am
ButtMunch loves to call Baker a bum but if he saw him out, he would piss down his leg and beg him for an autograph!
September 28th, 2026 at 2:10 am
Let’s be honest here. The only time the Bucs have ever sold out their stadium was the RayJay’s first decade, when the price for getting in to see Sapp hunt Favre and Alstott bounce off and run over Saints was a ten-year contract. And even then, when the Bears and the Packers played, we sold our tickets.
September 28th, 2026 at 2:16 am
Lunchmeat Says:
September 28th, 2026 at 2:10 am
Let’s be honest here. The only time the Bucs have ever sold out their stadium was the RayJay’s first decade
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Try again.
Stadium opened in 1998, you had the infamous 100,000 seat waiting list by the summer of 2003… and then Gruden got McKay fired, handpicked his stooge GM, cut Lynch, ran off Sapp, and you had a half-empty stadium by the end of 2004.
For all those whining about Bowles and wanting Gruden, maybe you should remember how the events of the era actually played out.
September 28th, 2026 at 2:53 am
Joe says:
Bucs do not release that information [season ticket sales].
Gee, I wonder why.
September 28th, 2026 at 3:36 am
And when the glazers notice it they can look directly in the mirror. Half of them might as well be wearing purple.
January of ‘25. That’s when they sunk their own battleship.
Get it together.
September 28th, 2026 at 3:52 am
Out of market so I had to listen to it while working on the house. When enjoying (puking) a game that way, the crowd reaction is important. I could not tell when we did good things or not based on the crowd noise. (Miss Gene)
September 28th, 2026 at 6:01 am
NFL is a business and if the Bucs were good there would be fewer opponent jerseys. You can’t blame fans for also making a business decision. Their are other things to do and the Bucs haven’t been watchable for a while. I gave up on this season when they kept Bowles. It was always going to be average at best just like his HC abilities.
September 28th, 2026 at 6:15 am
As expensive as NFL games are anymore, who in their right mind wants to pay to see this dumpster fire?
September 28th, 2026 at 6:42 am
Season ticket holder. 50 yard line.
We were surrounded by BUCS fans. Some Viking fans, but BUCS fans, screaming for their team.
This organization, head coach, OC and QB STINK. Don’t even THINK of blaming lack of fan base.
We, like Florida, are made up of people who came from other areas. The vikings fans around us actually live in Tampa bay.
September 28th, 2026 at 6:46 am
Mc Dermott. Call today.
Look, no one thought Baker was shot. But he might have known. Con man, fleeced us. We will never know.
WITH the right HC, a start receiver, a new OC….maybe a new GM….Baker will be OK next year. Rebuild RIGHT NOW.
September 28th, 2026 at 6:59 am
Bucs 0-3 expected but Vikings are 3-0 and stink also except for a couple of holding penalties the Bucs could have won
September 28th, 2026 at 7:33 am
I was there in section 112 and if that was 40% Vikings fans, then Vita Vea has 3% body fat
September 28th, 2026 at 7:51 am
All they have to do is put a competitive product on the field and it wouldn’t be like that.
September 28th, 2026 at 8:35 am
You think this is bad, wait until the Jags are in Orlando next year.
September 28th, 2026 at 8:47 am
Bring in gruden as coach and lane kiffin as Dcordinator, lose every game and take Arch manning in the draft, every seat would be sold out for the next several years.
September 28th, 2026 at 8:51 am
There should be 0 Bucs fans going to next game sell all your tickets , do not show up , let the away team have a true home game . Make them sell team !!!!!
September 28th, 2026 at 9:29 am
Why would anyone buy tickets to watch this Horrible Coached Team.
September 28th, 2026 at 10:08 am
‘a team with an allegedly popular quarterback and a lot of talented players.’
Head coach makes a huge difference!
That’s why you here so much about Nick Saban; ‘Bear’ Bryant; Bill Belechik; Don Shula; George Halas…. Any one of these guy as HC of the Bucs today and the Bucs stadium would be a sea of pewter….
With these owners lack of knowledge at picking a quality winner, we get Todd Bowels; Lovie Smith; Greg Shiano; Dirk Koetter; Raheem Morris… Very Bottom of the barrel!
Only ever 20 years we get a Coach Jon Gruden or Coach Bruce Arians…
Owners want more fans in seats, STOP employing LOSERS as HC!
September 28th, 2026 at 10:12 am
This is just the way of the NFL now because of ticketing platforms. If another teams fans have more $ than you or have a longer, richer history is a city people want to travel to then expect this.
The Saints game was 30-40% Raiders fans in the Superdome. I was there for a work function.
September 28th, 2026 at 10:23 am
For those of us that were there for every game 1997-2003…the place was filled with red jerseys. Tickets were reasonably priced and every game was an actual event. We loved the players and they loved playing for us (except Keyshaun). It was a special time that will NEVER be replicated here in Tampa.
September 28th, 2026 at 11:51 am
What did y’all expect. Remember back when we had a good team in the early 2000s when daddy Glazier told season ticket holders if they sold their tickets to the bad guys he would resend their rights to buy their s. He actually cared about this team & the fans . The kids just want a big paycheck & money to shore up the soccer team they really like, not our Bucs . We know they didn’t fire Bowles because it would have cost a fortune in a first season buyout to do it, they won’t fire anyone until the seasons over so it will get worse before this season is over. I mean really we will have a mid talent level rookie starting next Sunday, I hope he surprises me and tears it up but this is the NFL, rookie QBs don’t usually do that well in regular season games . This is gonna be a long hard dark season probably. I can shout that I won’t be watching but I will cause I’m a Bucs Fan,, I’m still gonna tune in every game the play. Lord help us it’s gonna be a long one. Also this TEAM needs more than aHC we got to get a new GM that knows how to truly evaluate talent. He has not our our O-line wouldn’t be playing just as bad as last year although he can’t blame injuries. Thime to clean house Bucs owners .
September 28th, 2026 at 11:57 am
If you think this is bad just wait until Packers and Steelers show up! This is the consequences of being complacent with a terrible coaching staff! FIRE BOWLES!!!
September 28th, 2026 at 1:35 pm
Who races in and pays big money for disappointment ? We know the product is terrible. I’ll go outdoors and enjoy life before I spend $500 to walk into that mness.
September 28th, 2026 at 2:00 pm
With all that!!! Just a game out of 1st…Life’s Good! GOOOOO Bucs!!
September 28th, 2026 at 2:04 pm
Its always been like that! where does people flock for the winter?? Duhhhh. Its the bandwagon fans that cry on this blog that don’t show up!
September 28th, 2026 at 4:34 pm
father dungy would approve of all comments
September 28th, 2026 at 9:00 pm
I was there and it was not a home game for us. Absolutely disgusting. Fire Bowles bring back Gruden.