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 ultimate, the Bucs posted a hype video waiting for 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: Picture 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 way 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 Sport, 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 in the course of the Tremendous Bowl boat parade.
The video additionally carries a message from Barber in regards to the endurance of the Buccaneer fan base by way of 5 a long time of soccer in Tampa Bay.
“Even because the creamsicle and white turned to pewter and crimson, the wild spirit of our krewe stays,” Barber says.
“Yr after yr, the largest occasion in Tampa occurs proper right here,” Barber later continues. “As a result of this group, these moments, they share one factor in frequent: 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 Street Video games
Bucs WR Mike Evans – Picture 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 dwelling video games and 9 highway 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 highway, 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 highway because the group will go to Los Angeles, Buffalo, Detroit and Houston.
There’s additionally a slight risk that the Bucs’ highway schedule might embrace a visit to Madrid, because it was introduced again in January that the Dolphins have been a delegated group for the NFL’s first-ever sport in Spain. Since that’s one in all Miami’s “dwelling” video games and Tampa Bay is scheduled as one in all its dwelling opponents, there’s a one in 9 likelihood that it may very well be Todd Bowles and Co. matching up with Mike McDaniel’s group on the iconic Bernabéu Stadium, which is dwelling 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 shall be kicking off the season at dwelling 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.
