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tampa’s fantasy football team – los con leches

August 25, 2009One comment so far, add yours!

It’s fantasy football time, and Yahoo Sports has offered mayors around the country an opportunity to try their hand at fantasy football.  The winner of the Mayoral Face-Off Fantasy Football League will win $15,000, donated to a local sports program. Tampa mayor Pam Iorio’s team is called the Tampa Con Leches, and the logo includes a [...]

tour a super bowl stadium

January 22, 2009One comment so far, add yours!

According to our friends at Tampa Bay & Company, we can all take a tour of Raymond James Stadium this weekend. … an exclusive tour of Raymond James Stadium, home of Super Bowl XLIII and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will be offered to NFL fans Jan. 24 and 25. Fans who purchase the $25 ticket package will [...]

red grange in tampa

September 27, 20082 comments - add to the conversation!

Gary A. Poole contacted us, told us he had written about Tampa’s first professional football game, and asked us to pimp his new book, The Galloping Ghost:  Red Grange, an American Football Legend.  I asked him to write something up about Grange’s time in Tampa, and so he did (I added the images, which are [...]

playing nostradamus: predictions for the bucs

I love making predictions, especially with the Bucs. Never mind that most of the time they are wrong. So here are my educated guesses on the season for our local NFL collective… JON GRUDEN WILL KEEP HIS JOB No subject more sharply divides Bucs fans than their opinions on the head coach. And while I understand where [...]

first predictions in for super bowl 43

Village Voice Media owns Houston’s biggest alternative weekly, the Houston Press. It seems as if HP sportsblogger Jason Friedman makes his super bowl predictions over a year in advance, just prior to the game prior. Got that? Anyway, before Super Bowl 42 in Arizona, Friedman said the Indianapolis Colts will beat the St. Louis [...]

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