Messin’ With Karma
November 9th, 2009
Like Joe’s favorite series of TV commercials, “Messin’ with Sasquatch,” former Bucs beat writer and current SI.com columnist Don Banks thought the Bucs toying with the creamsicle uniforms would not end well.
Alas Banks, and virtually every Bucs fans, was pleasantly surprised that a rookie quarterback would rally the Bucs from an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter for the first win of the season.
It’s the power of the creamsicle!
As one who grew up in the Tampa Bay area and suffered through the Bucs’ orange-uniform era, I’m not sure I would have messed with losing karma like that. But the Bucs trotted out the throwback creamsicle uniforms Sunday at home against Green Bay, in part to celebrate their 1979 playoff team, and it worked. They finally gave rookie head coach Raheem Morris his first NFL win, upsetting the humiliated Packers 38-28 on the strength of a 21-point fourth quarter.
Joe thought the whole scene yesterday was so cool — Joe always liked the creamsicle uniforms — that the Bucs should keep them for home games until they lose. And the creamsicles should be brought back once a year.
November 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I agree Joe. Otherwise, when they lose in the creamsicles–and they will lose in them if they wear them the rest of the season–they’ll blame it on the unis, and we’ll never see them again.
Yesterday was about Tampa, history and Selmon. Now let’s see what they can do when they’re concentrating on football 100% and not on any superstition that comes with a uniform.