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Daily Mail
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Tampa Bay Buccaneers to bring back divisive orange 'Creamsicle' jerseys and 'Bucco Bruce' helmet in 2025
Nostalgia is a heck of a drug. Once blamed for the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers ' early struggles in the 1970s, the team's erstwhile 'Bucco Bruce' logo will be reintroduced this season with its infamous road 'Creamsicle' uniforms in Week 3. The team unveiled the alternate threads online Tuesday as fans offered their overwhelming support for a color scheme traditionally likened to an orange-flavored frozen treat or cocktail. 'Creamsicles are a sweet throwback,' one fan wrote. 'Just make the damn things permanent,' another added. 'Would anyone object?' The question is a bit curious, considering the history of the creamsicle uniforms the Bucs wore from their inception in 1976 until 1997. Tampa Bay dropped its first 26 games in those jerseys, which became a symbol of the team's ineptitude. 'If [Bucco Bruce] is the guy who's in charge of losing, let's get rid of him,' the team's first coach, John McKay, said of his former team in 1997. Tampa Bay went 10-6 that season and reached the playoffs, snapping a streak of 14 straight losing campaigns. But as the years have ticked by and the Bucs' frustrations have been eased by two Super Bowl victories, the disdain for the Bucco Bruce uniforms has withered away. Now fans fatigued by Nike's modern uniform aesthetics are openly embracing a flamboyant color scheme that's suddenly become foreign in the NFL. 'Spectacular,' former Houston Texas great JJ Watt wrote on X. 'Is this the best helmet in the NFL?' asked Riddell Sports' account of the winking Bucco Bruce logo. 'Perfection,' one fan wrote. 'A rare 10/10 complete uniform.' The Bucs will continue using their modern logo and color scheme throughout the 2025 season but will adopt the once-divisive throwbacks on September 21 when Tampa hosts the New York Jets. Tampa Bay brought back the orange creamsicle home uniforms in 2023 but will be wearing their white road jerseys in Week 3 this time around.
USA Today
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Buccaneers add another flavor of 'Creamsicle,' bring back original road jersey
If you love a little bit of 'Creamsicle' during the sweltering days of July, then you're in luck. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are bringing back another flavor of their famous/infamous uniforms featuring 'Florida Orange' and the winking pirate, 'Bucco Bruce,' that they featured for the first 21 seasons of their existence, beginning in 1976. However, in honor of their upcoming 50th anniversary campaign, the Bucs will also wear their white creamsicle road jerseys, which had not seen the light of day in any form since 1996. The uniforms are among the most notable in league history, the Buccaneers losing their first 26 games while being widely ridiculed for their appearance – both sartorially and from a football perspective. They only won one postseason game in Creamsicle before becoming something of a routine playoff entry in their current garb, which features red, pewter, a pirate flag helmet logo and a ship on the sleeve. Both of the organization's Super Bowl triumphs have come with the contemporary look. However the "Bucco Bruce" insignia − a winking pirate emblem calling back swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn − and the Florida Orange have taken on a nostalgic feel in recent decades, serving as a delightful throwback option from the 2009 through '12 seasons and returning anew in 2023 and '24 now that the NFL has relaxed its rules by permitting teams to use multiple helmet shells. 'If (Bucco Bruce) is the guy who's in charge of losing, let's get rid of him,' John McKay, the club's original coach, cracked when the logo was first retired in 1997. Since returning, Creamsicle and Bruce have been appreciated for breaking the mold of the NFL's fairly traditional uniforms when they were introduced. Bucco Bruce even occasionally took on the visage of Tom Brady, who quarterbacked Tampa Bay from 2020 to '22 and led the Bucs to victory in Super Bowl 55. Like their 1976 expansion brethren Bucs, the Seattle Seahawks are similarly expected to resurface their classic white road uniforms to celebrate their 50th season in 2025. All NFL news on and off the field. Sign up for USA TODAY's 4th and Monday newsletter.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Buccaneers Announce 'Creamsicle' Game for 2025
Buccaneers Announce 'Creamsicle' Game for 2025 originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Like it or not, and there are many who don't, Bucco Bruce is returning in 2025. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced on Tuesday that they'll bring back the Creamsicle uniforms in the Week 15 matchup next season against the division rival Atlanta Falcons at Raymond James Stadium. Advertisement The team last wore the Bucco Bruce helmet and Creamsicle jerseys against the Falcons last season in a 31-26 defeat. Some fans consider the uniforms to be bad luck, most associated with the early days of the franchise that saw little success. Tampa Bay wore the colors from the franchise's inception in 1976 through the 1996 season, then first wore them as an alternate look in 2009. From 1976-1996, the team posted a 100-223-1 record and just three winning seasons before making the switch to "Pewter Power" for the 1997 season. In 1979, Tampa Bay went 10-6 en route to a 9-0 NFC Championship game loss to the Los Angeles Rams. In 1981, they went 9-7 and lost 38-0 to the Dallas Cowboys in the Divisional Round, and then 5-4 in the strike-shortened season of 1982 before they lost to Dallas 30-17 in the Wild Card round. Advertisement That's it. Three. Three winning seasons while wearing Bucco Bruce and the Creamsicles, and no winning season or postseason appearances from 1982 until 1997 after the team changed looks. It's no wonder fans and some media believe the bad luck takes, as the evidence is almost overwhelming. Buccaneers insider, JP Peterson of the JP Peterson Show on Fan Stream Sports - Tampa Bay is one that believes in the bad luck, and questions why those colors keep coming back. 'Why are the Bucs still playing in these uniforms? They are gorgeous to wear to bars, but the Bucs are 1-6 in the Creamsicle throwback games and went 0-26 to start the franchise and then 14 straight years without making the playoffs," Peterson said. "And as soon as they switched to the 'Pewter and Red', we went to the playoffs four of the next six years! You can't win in Creamsicles, and this is a key divisional game! This is not an opinion, it's a demonstrable fact!" Advertisement Tampa Bay's in-game sideline reporter, T.J. Rives, has a different view of the Creamsicles. "As someone who grew up watching the Bucs as a teenager in the 1980s in the orange, I always love the nostalgia of them putting it back on," Rives told us. Related: Buccaneers Legend Names Choice for Next Ring of Honor Inductee Related: Buccaneers Fourth-Year Defender Looks For Contract Extension This Offseason This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 24, 2025, where it first appeared.
