TAMPA, Fla. - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were back in their building Wednesday, practicing for the first time since Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida and brought hurricane-force winds and flooding to nearly the entire state.
Players admitted to getting a real scare out of the whole ordeal. Many had never been through a hurricane before. Irma's projected path shifted west from the Atlantic Ocean side to Florida's west coast. Had the storm not been weakened by Cuba, battered the Florida Keys, made a second landfall at Marco Island, or veered east towards Polk County as it traveled up the state, it would have been far worse.