The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have resided for nearly the entirety of their existence on the bottom rung of NFL relevance. It is a franchise born into Creamsicle-hued failure that has grasped for sustained competence ever since. They won the Super Bowl in 2002, but they have not won a playoff game since while cycling through six coaches. The Buccaneers have made the postseason just twice in that span, and not once since 2007. They play in the third biggest city in Florida. One of the franchise’s signatures is the pirate ship inside their stadium.
And now their quarterback is Tom Brady, the most accomplished professional football player of all-time, maybe the most glamorous athlete on the planet.