GO BUCS!!!!!!

“LOL!”

“Should be a great Super Bowl!”

“Go RAIDERS !!”

“Now that titans got cooked I am going to root for the BUCS. Can't stand the Raiders.”

“YAY BUCS!!!!!!!!!”

“It's gonna be the "Chuckie Bowl"!!!!”

“Gruden was once the Eagles' wunderkind offensive coordinator and Joe Juravicius is a State Penn guy. Life ain't fair!”

“WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

GO TAMPA BAY!!!!!

KILL THEM RAIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Just Win, Baby !!!

ALL RAIDERS !!!!!”

“True story, per my brother who lives in Tampa:

A group of about half dozen or so young teenage punks were holding up signs saying "Go Raiders" and "Bucs Stink" at a semi-busy Tampa street corner.

My brother drove through, thinking what a bunch of stupid punks, only looking to rile people up. You see, Tampa Bay fans are pretty rabid.

Well, my bro kept his cool and drove through, but noticed another car coming down the intersecting street. Then suddenly, coming from the blue car was a massive assault of water balloons and eggs which drenched the young punks on the street corner. Ha ha ha!

GO BUCS!!!”

“so? Where do I send the simpathy card























Artex??”

“Let's see the defense!!!

GO BUCS!!!!!”

“Looks like it's all over now.

congrates to you Buc fans”

“34-3 in the 3rd quarter!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Cripes, I think the Raider's zipper broke and they wussed out and went home. *sigh*

2 rolls of duct tape to Artex unless a miracle happens.

At least I went backpacking this weekend.”

“Raiders are creeping back into the game... whoa-ho-ho!”

“LOL! Good one, Pennsy! :-)”

“Wow, 48-21. Very cool. Good game.”

“Congrats to the Bucs

Half that win was the Tampa defense

The other half, was the Raiders offense not even showing up”

“Well, as much as I wanted the Raiders to win,

The Bucs Rule!

”

“I need a stiff drink...Pass that whiskey...”

“Way to go Bucs!”

“I'll join ya fer that stiff drink, hikingirl......

sniff.. sniff... sob”

“Hikingirl, you're underage! Back to the mountain dew for you!

What did you all think of the commercials?”

“I see the Raiders decided to take the night off. Bad time to do that.
Bummage. I was for the Raiders.
Oh well, The Bucs did look good though.

I'm still proud of the Eagles. They are in the Top 4 this year!”

“This is cool. I've been a Bucs fan since they came into existance in 1976 and I lived there. I've always liked them, even when they stunk, and they've stunk for so long, and now they're the best team in the NFL. Sweet!”

“I was in Tampa when they came into existence too. This town has been rabid for this for a long time. They did it and earned it. Good for ya, BUCS! Enjoy your glory...

The spots were the best ads I've seen in years. The castaway, the Osbournes and the Office Linebacker were highlights for me.

You missed a great pepper steak, Artex...”

“Mmmmmmm, pepper steak.. drool

Treebeard, I was four years old then.. it's possible that we passed eachother on the streets sometime when we were both living in Tampa.”

“Yes it is,Arty. I was mostly hanging in the North end by the university. Boy, the Bucs sucked then...”

“OZZY!!!!!!”

“I couldn't be happier that Al Davis got embarrassed...

The Bucs Defense was just too good... even Jerry Rice got picked...”

“that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!!!!”

“You know the Oakland Fire Dept. has to be relieved....”

“lolz tilt!


defence wins champeenships...great team, ,gotta hand it to um, , they rock”

“the dixie chicks stole the show imo”

“Congrats Artex. As I told my Eagles fan friends the week before, Gruden and the Bucs had a lot to do with how poorly the Raiders played. It's not easy to find receivers and complete passes when you hear very big footsteps and you are behind by two touchdowns midway through the fourth quarter.

Gruden picked apart two good teams! More power to them, but I prefer the nice Bucs of years past, to be honest. They were a very nice, considerate, generous team.”

“Congratulations to the Bucs, and to Artex and whoever else has been a faithful fan.

They had a great season, played a great game against the Eagles to get to the big dance, and had another great day yesterday.”

“That was Armageddon
It's hard to get excited over the Super Bowl when the Eagles' hopes of playing in the game were dashed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a week earlier.
On one level, it would have been nice to see the class bully put in his place.
On another, the result of the game vindicated the Eagles just a bit. Their defeat at the hands of Tampa Bay win was not a fluke, not some chance alignment of stars and planets.
I tried to watch the game. Honest, I did!
Twice I tuned in to the game, but left after watching a few moments of play.
It was like deja vu all over again, to quote Yogi Berra.
Was that Rich Gannon or Donovan McNabb? Why were the Eagles wearing white and black jerseys?
Why did I feel like I knew the script?
When Jon Gruden left the Eagles to take over the Oakland Raiders, I thought the Birds had made a bad mistake by not signing him on as head coach here.
After a couple of seasons at Oakland, Gruden did not manage to even get to the Super Bowl, so then it seemed as though maybe the Eagles had not made a mistake after all.
When Gruden went from Oakland to Tampa Bay last year, it did not even register on my radar. After all, the Buccaneers had been overly generous to the Eagles for years.
Suddenly, after the Eagles lost to Gruden's mob of cutthroats and brigands, our old offensive coordinator began to seem like a genius again.
He had methodically taken apart the Eagles' offense as though he had a copy of their playbook (Did the theft of that playbook last summer have anything to do with Gruden? You have to wonder!).
And you almost know he knew the Raiders' playbook by heart. Heck, he probably wrote most of it.
It may have won a Super Bowl, but it was not exactly compelling TV football, unless you happen to like the sight of one team getting stomped into the ground. To be sure, I have no objection to one team being stomped into the ground, as long as the stomping is being administered by guys wearing midnight green.
But when two other teams play in the big game, a lop-sided game is the last thing I want to see. I want a game that has some suspense, at least after the first five minutes have elapsed.
The trouble with Tampa Bay this year is that only the first few minutes have any interest. If you don't score 100 points against them in the first five minutes, you lose!
What happened in the Bucs' last two games was not a game. It was a massacre.
It was like, well, ... pirates swarming over the rail, cutlasses in mouths, Arrrr!
It was Blackbeard, bits of fuse burning in his long black beard, wielding a cutlass as he led his men over the side.
It was Long John Silver plotting to take over the ship.
It was your worst nightmare.
They should have aired a warning so parents could have protected their offspring from the sheer terror the Buccaneers inflicted on otherwise innocent football teams and their fans.
No, that was no Super Bowl.
That was Armageddon, plain and simple!”

“yyyeeeaaahhhh I won $62.50
in the football pool.

Well it will have to go towards my new tent :(”

“Cool article Geobeet! Did you write that for TT, or did it go out in the paper you work for?”

“It will go out in Wednesday's paper under one of my two columns, "What Now?" The other is earth sciences oriented, called "Adventures on Earth."”

“Well written, Geo.”

“Cool! Hey, if you don't mind me asking, what's the "Adventures on Earth" article about? Do you think you could post it or email it to me? I'm getting gung-ho on earth sciences since I may be teaching it next year, so I'd be really interested in checking it out.”

“First the Rams
Then the Patriots
Then the Angels
Now the Bucs

what crappy team is gonna win a championship now?

Clippers?
Ducks?”

“Who WERE those stinkin' imposters in the Silver and Black???”

“The column is in the email!”

“FG, it is tempting, but it would be rather classless of me, to suggest that first the Eagles laid down for the Bucs, then the Raiders did...so I won't even hint at it. ;)

The Bucs won the big game, so they must be the best team. At least, this month they are.

...

Right???”

“I agree, they totally dominated the Raiders... it's not that imposters showed up, it's that Gannon never got a chance to settle down and Callahan is an idiot to not even trying to establish a running game... and Al Davis's BAD KARMA”

“Geo - what paper is you column in, and is it on-line?”