Bucs’ London Game Announced

April 17th, 2019

UPDATED: 10:32 a.m. – Well, here is 1/16th — or perhaps 2/17ths — of the NFL scheduling puzzle for the Bucs.

The Bucs will host the Stinking Panthers in London on Sunday, Oct. 13, Week 6 of the schedule, the team announced this morning.

The game will be a 9:30 a.m. kickoff, Tampa time and yes, that’s a lost “home game” for the Bucs. That also means you can count on the Buccaneers’ bye week in Week 7, as most teams get a week off following the overseas jaunt.

So you now have roughly a six-month warning to stock up on vodka and Bloody Mary mix, or join Joe at a local watch party.

The full schedule is released at 8 p.m. tonight on NFL Network, if it doesn’t trickle out sooner.

44 Responses to “Bucs’ London Game Announced”

  1. tmaxcon Says:

    On a poistive note, at least the bay area will spared from embarrassing football for a weekend. bucs home record like every record they have is simply pitiful

  2. Buc believer Says:

    I just got the notice from Buccaneers.com and they announced it like it was a great event. Buc fans are getting shafted from a home game AGAIN! THATS NOT A GOOD F….ING THING! Screw the international games! Football is OUR sport!

  3. Joe Says:

    Buc fans are getting shafted from a home game AGAIN! THATS NOT A GOOD F….ING THING! Screw the international games!

    Agree, but that’s the penance of hosting a Super Bowl: Have to cough up a regular season game to be played overseas.

  4. Joe Says:

    On a poistive note, at least the bay area will spared from embarrassing football for a weekend

    This isn’t 2009 where home games are blacked out or blocked in any way.

  5. chris linkletter Says:

    JOE! I will be there!!!! WOOO

  6. Jaykpatel Says:

    Possible bye week to follow (W7). Not too bad.

  7. Joe Says:

    Possible bye week to follow (W7). Not too bad.

    Very good point.

  8. Not there yet Says:

    Unwarranted negative vibe on this team the entire off-season from crazy joe basically wanting everyone to know the team sucks even before the draft. Your the Dirk Koetter guy because yea if he couldn’t be successful with this team who can right crazy joe😒

  9. Dusthty Rhothdes Says:

    Long way to go to lose a game to the panthers and that clown cam

  10. 813bucboi Says:

    GREAT!!!!!!!

    i can turn up as soon as i jump out the bed!!!!!!!

    #REALISTKNOWSNOTHING!!!!!…GO BUCS!!!!

  11. Buc Bobby in South Carolina Says:

    What a waste of a great division game to be played on the other side of the world

  12. Buc believer Says:

    I agree with the penance part Joe but please explain why we are ALWAYS the home team? That’s the part that sucks!

  13. Magadude Says:

    I am glad this “home game” in London is against a team like the Panthers vice the Giants or Patriots or Bears, as those teams are very popular in London–due to ties with those cities. The advantage there would swing heavily to those teams. So hoping this field is “neutral” at worst. Bucs-Panthers seems to draw a fairly small crowd in Tampa, so this can work out okay. Worst case is I save $600 on my season ticket package. Hoping to see the Bucs go to Nashville in Sep-Oct….will be our road trip this year along with seeing the Grand Ole Opry.

  14. John Sinclear Says:

    On the bright side, NASCAR is running at Talladega that Sunday. Big wrecks and such.

  15. rhenry Says:

    The NFL robbed us again. Not only did we lose a home game, and a division game, we have to start out our Sunday with a 9 30 a.m. kickoff. The NFL really gave us the shaft minus any grease. They could have at the very least started the London game at 5 p.m. sparing us the early morning nausea.

  16. 813bucboi Says:

    i think we have a similar season as the colts last year…..we may start off slow but we’ll end up running off 7-8 in a row while making the playoffs….

    #REALISTKNOWSNOTHING!!!!!…GO BUCS!!!!

  17. D-Rome Says:

    Agree, but that’s the penance of hosting a Super Bowl: Have to cough up a regular season game to be played overseas.

    I’m OK with it. Hosting a Super Bowl is good for the local economy.

  18. Bucsdelight Says:

    So tired of having early bye weeks. Why can’t we get a week 9 bye week. I’m also surprised that we would have a division game in London.

  19. Doctor_berto Says:

    Screw England and screw the NFL

  20. ndog Says:

    Surprise surprise mostly everyone is on here complaining and is not happy. Who would have guessed that?

  21. lowercaseg Says:

    The only thing all these teams have in common is that they can’t consistently sell out home games. The glazers should swallow their pride and sell the team because they honestly suck on every level.

  22. JameisAlmighty! Says:

    Great. 1 of only 2 guaranteed games shown in NC is now in the morning. Lovely! Somehow Jason Licht had something to do with this atrocity. Booooo!

  23. German Buc Says:

    One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I am happy to see my Buccaneers while needing only a short flight. *taking shelter

  24. Magadude Says:

    If the Bucs play it right, they do a normal week of practice, and get on a plane Friday afternoon…land in London about 1am London time, put the boys to bed by 3am, have the walkthrough about 1pm London time, and put them back in bed by 7pm (curfew) London time that night. That will minimize their biological clock changes and they will feel “normal” at game time. If they get out of their home shedule, it basically takes 1 day for every hour of time zone crossed. They shouldn’t make it a nice weeklong road trip like they did last time they did this…treat it like business, minimize sight seeing, and tell the players and staff to get out and see all England has to offer….ON THEIR OWN TIME in the offseason.

  25. AndyinLA Says:

    6:30 west coast… brutal!

  26. Joe Says:

    6:30 west coast… brutal!

    OUCH!

  27. Kobe Faker Says:

    “Glazers increasing the London Bucsfan base as the Tampa Bay Bucsfan base diminish…

    we will have the worst attendance home stadium turnout in all NFL next year

    being real”

    Kobe Faker

  28. DoooshLaRue Says:

    Bobby in SC,

    England is not really the other side of the world……. you should travel more.

  29. Tampabaybucfan Says:

    Right smack dab in the middle of Church…..but will have the record on…..

    I’m quite certain that will be the case for most of us……(well, maybe not)

  30. DoooshLaRue Says:

    TBBF,

    Yeah, I won’t be in church.

  31. Todd Says:

    @tmaxipadcon

    There you go again, mired in all your miserableness. Not a positive comment in your head. Controlled opposition.

    Move out of your mom’s basement, maxipad.

  32. SCBucsFan Says:

    Doosh – some of us in SC know it is only a 8 hour flight. Be glad they aren’t playing in Australia.

  33. Bucs fan Says:

    The money rape of season ticket holders strikes again!

    10 home games including 2 meaningless preseason games.
    Which means 20% of your games are meaningless
    This year 9 Home Games with 2 meaningless preseason games
    Which means we are now paying an even higher percentage of our money to watch meaningless games.
    Make everyone happy and play all preseason games somewhere else.
    But that would go against the grain of the NFl’s system of how to screw your best fans!

  34. ben Says:

    A home game away is great !!! Makes season tkts cheaper !!

  35. DooshLaRue Says:

    Ding-ding-ding….. yes, Australia is the other side of the world.

  36. TampaTown Says:

    Bucs vs Giants September 22 @ 4:05pm. Giants schedule leaked

  37. DBS Says:

    Well if you believe it we open with the 49ers so says NBC

  38. stpetebucsfan Says:

    NDOG FTW

    “Surprise surprise mostly everyone is on here complaining and is not happy. Who would have guessed that?”

    And speaking of complaining….Todd while I agree with your frustration at Tmax’s negativity you missed an historic occasion on JBF. Tmax actually started a post….”On a poistive note”!!!!

    Of course Tmax is incapable of a POSITIVE note and followed that misleading phrase with a diatribe about the Buc’s “embarrassing” football. Some things never change.

  39. Pugs&Bucs Says:

    I am glad it’s an October game : that usually means it’s 95 degree day in Tampa. I can let go of one super-humid tailgate w/o losing too much sleep.

  40. unbelievable Says:

    Well at least we get a later bye week this season…

  41. bucs4ya Says:

    Just had a 49er fan tell me they open the season against us in Tampa. I looked it up and seems to be a legit leak.

  42. Arian Nation Says:

    Maybe, we can all chip in and buy a couple ticket packages for Tmax and Kobe on that new ocean liner, I think it’s called the Titanic.

  43. 407buc Says:

    Another Glazer fail.Why are we losing another home game.If the NFL wants us to play over there let it be someonelse’s home game.

  44. Clw JB Says:

    Wembley or Tottenham? Trying to buy plane tickets right now!!!!!!