A trip to the Empire State

A family outing to Manhattan and Brooklyn for a wedding gave rise to a question I had always wanted to ask but never was in a position to do so... until a week ago. As I arrived at Newark Airport I saw a faint creamsicle glow in the distance, a throwback Tampa Bay Buccaneers cap was being worn. I approached the older gentleman and kindly asked if he was a fan, to my dismay he wasn’t at all and the hat just happened to match the outfit. As a an impromptu follow up back to myself, the gentleman asked if I was and returned with asking how it felt to root for a team of “thugs”. Maybe this gentleman was referring to Jameis Winston, but I was wrong. The man in question couldn’t care less about the quarterback, the “thug” in question was DeSean Jackson. This random conversation made me think aloud and sparked me asking many individuals throughout the city in sports bars, department stores and at the wedding alike, “What do you think about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?”

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