From scout.com's list of the most agonizing losses in Jacksonville history & one of the 1995 Tampa Bay Buc's finer moments:

#9) 11/19/95 vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers / 17-16: The Jaguars had fought back from a 10-0 deficit to pull to within 17-16 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But the Jaguars decided to pass for a two-point conversion and it failed, and the Buccaneers held on for a 17-16 win.

This raises an interesting question

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From Today's Tampa Trib, another run of the mill (i.e. safe) player interview.  A few things Ben had to say were interesting:

About the team culture as compared to the Titans:

"it's the level of intensity down here. The biggest thing is, you can't tell who's old and who's new. Everyone jells with one another, we know that we are going to need everybody."

Despite all the drama concerning Garcia and Simms, I do believe that this is the case.  This team is confident and knows that the NFC is theirs, if they want it.

About his boyhood idols:

"Walter Payton, Jerry Rice and all the greats. I also watched Bruce Smith. I was just a fan of the game and I enjoyed watching it"

I like a tight end who can appreciate good line play.  Even though he is not known as a strong blocker, Troupe may wind up taking a lot of those duties so let's hope every little bit helps.

Before he was drafted, most draftnicks rated him above Ben Watson as the best TE of that draft.  I think he is a  lock for the team and I am excited to see what he can do this year.

A great read from Pete Karasotis about Josh Hamilton and Keith McCants.

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Top Ten from plays from today's thriller between the White and the Blue team.

White                                       Blue

Ronde Barber                       Derrick Brooks

Josh Johnson                       Aqib Talib

Alex Smith                              Josh McCown

Gaines Adams                      Michael Clayton

Eugene Wilson                     Ernest Graham

Sabby Piscitelli                      Ben Troupe

Welcome to Sportcenter's Top Ten!

Number Ten:  Monster block by Alex Smith on Ben Troupe, leaving a clear path for Ronde to dart into the endzone.  Looking at the play again, you see Troupe's torso get lifted upwards and pushed back as he sailed for at least three yards before crashing back down.  The Shwam thinks that someone is trying to establish early dominance.

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Pewter                                                    Red

Mike Alstott                                            Joey Galloway

Warrick Dunn                                        Jeff Garcia

Dexter Jackson                                    Tanard Jackson

Jermaine Phillips                                Barrett Ruud

Cato June                                             Phillip Buchanon

Brian Griese                                         Paris Warren

Some highlights from today's game between the Pewter team and the Red Team:

00:00 minutes into the game

Gene: Galloway won the toss and wants the ball.  Now the rules state that there are no ‘kickoffs', rather each team has to punt the ball to their opponents.  There is no penalty if the ball goes past the endzone, where possession starts on the twenty.  If the ball falls out of bounds on either sideline, the receiving team starts on the thirty.  It looks like Alstott is going to punt the ball from his own ten to get this game started.

Lee Roy: This should be interesting.  Let's see how well Mike can boot it.

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It's almost July 4^th.  Let's have some fun before things start to get serious.

No Tampa Bay personalities were harmed in the making of this blog post. 

Gene:  Welcome to the Tampa Bay Buccaneer's first annual July 4^th six on six charity flag football tournament.  Gene Deckerhoff here and ready to bring you all the excitement from today's competition.  Alongside me here at the beautiful Raymond James stadium is Lee Roy Selmon.

Lee Roy: Glad to be here.

Gene:  Me too, now let's get ready to fire those cannons!  Today, four teams composed of six of your favorite Bucs will compete for charity and, more importantly, their pride.

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