With the Eagles’ 40-22 win over the Chiefs in Tremendous Bowl LIX on Sunday night time, the 2024 NFL season formally got here to an finish. Which means the Bucs’ fiftieth season is on deck in 2025.
Simply moments after Tremendous Bowl LIX went remaining, the Bucs posted a hype video looking forward to their fiftieth season. Naturally, it was narrated by Ring of Honor member and Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer Ronde Barber.
Legendary Bucs CB Ronde Barber: Photograph by: Cliff Welch/PR
The video features a look again on the early days of the franchise earlier than highlighting the expansion of the Bucs franchise and the Tampa Bay space as an entire.
In fact, it additionally cycled by means of iconic moments of the group’s historical past, together with Barber’s game-clinching pick-six in opposition to the Eagles within the 2002 NFC Championship Recreation, the late Malcolm Glazer hoisting the franchise’s first Lombardi Trophy and celebrations of the Tremendous Bowl LV win at Raymond James Stadium 4 years in the past. Oh, and there was no forgetting Tom Brady’s Lombardi Trophy toss throughout the Tremendous Bowl boat parade.
The video additionally carries a message from Barber concerning the endurance of the Buccaneer fan base by means of 5 many years of soccer in Tampa Bay.
“Even because the creamsicle and white turned to pewter and purple, the wild spirit of our krewe stays,” Barber says.
“12 months after yr, the most important social gathering in Tampa occurs proper right here,” Barber later continues. “As a result of this group, these moments, they share one factor in widespread: They’re made by Tampa Bay.”
The video then concludes with Barber wanting up on the video board inside Raymond James Stadium because the group’s fiftieth season brand flashes on the display.
Bucs’ fiftieth Season Options Eight Dwelling Video games, 9 Highway Video games
Bucs WR Mike Evans – Photograph by: Cliff Welch/PR
Tampa Bay’s opponents for its fiftieth season have been finalized because the finish of the common season, although the total schedule received’t be launched till mid-Could after April’s NFL Draft.
For now, we all know the Bucs’ 2025 schedule consists of eight residence video games and 9 street video games.
The house slate has visits from the defending Tremendous Bowl champion Eagles, in addition to the 49ers, Cardinals, Patriots, Jets and the three NFC South opponents. On the street, the Bucs will face these three divisional opponents plus the Rams, Seahawks, Dolphins, Payments, Lions and Texans.
That’s a schedule that solely consists of 5 groups from the 2024 playoff subject. Philadelphia is the one a kind of 5 that Tampa Bay will see at Raymond James Stadium, because the others are all on the street because the group will go to Los Angeles, Buffalo, Detroit and Houston.
There’s additionally a slight chance that the Bucs’ street schedule may embrace a visit to Madrid, because it was introduced again in January that the Dolphins have been a chosen group for the NFL’s first-ever recreation in Spain. Since that’s one among Miami’s “residence” video games and Tampa Bay is scheduled as one among its residence opponents, there’s a one in 9 likelihood that it might be Todd Bowles and Co. matching up with Mike McDaniel’s group on the iconic Bernabéu Stadium, which is residence to Actual Madrid of La Liga.
Although the common season schedule will drop in full later this spring, we do know that Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season would be the weekend after Labor Day. Because the Eagles will probably be kicking off the season at residence on Thursday, Sept. 4, because the reigning Tremendous Bowl champions, the Bucs ought to open issues up on Sunday, Sept. 7.
With that stated, Tampa Bay’s fiftieth season is formally 210 days away. Begin the countdown now, Bucs followers.
