Jon Gruden Will Be Reinstated Into Bucs’ Ring Of Honor

February 28th, 2025

Jon Gruden will be back — in the Ring of Honor.

A great wrong has been righted.

Last night, it was officially announced that Team Glazer decided to reinstate the winningest coach in Bucs history, Chucky, the man who got the Bucs their first Super Bowl win, back into the coveted team’s Ring of Honor.

Well done, Team Glazer. Well done!

Chucky was in the Ring of Honor but his name was unceremoniously removed after personal, vile if not grossly insensitive emails from Chucky were leaked. Some allegedly were directed toward Team Glazer.

The emails were typed many years ago when Chucky was an ESPN analyst on “Monday Night Football” and not coaching.

Joe really had a problem with the decision to remove Chucky’s name from the Ring of Honor. Were his emails despicable? Absolutely! But Joe is very much against attempts at whitewashing history.

And in Joe’s mind, removing Chucky’s name from the Ring of Honor was an attempt to rewrite Bucs history. Like it was an attempt to pretend Chucky never worked for the Bucs, as if his coaching didn’t finally push the Bucs over the hump to win the team’s first Super Bowl.

Joe is a history nut and treasures history. Joe believes all history, no matter how distasteful, needs to be remembered.

Rather than lazily try to cancel Chucky, Joe thought then and thinks now that those awful emails should be used as a teaching and learning tool.

Canceling Chucky did nothing more than try to sweep an issue under a rug. How can we ever advance as a sophisticated society if we don’t learn from mistakes?

Former St. Louis Cardinals play-by-play man Jack Buck once said when Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris’ then-season record of 60 home runs in 1998, “Pardon me for a moment while I stand to applaud.”

So pardon Joe for a moment as he applauds Team Glazer for doing the right thing and reinstating Chucky into the Bucs’ hallowed Ring of Honor.

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