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“We need something that we all can cheer for. We need something new we can watch together.”The only live sports broadcasts of the pandemic—mostly pallid replacements like marble races and spitting contests—could hardly purge the aggressions of Boston’s Red Sox Nation, absorb the vicious temperament of New York City’s dueling tabloid sports pages or quench the drunken ambition displayed in Chicago’s Wrigleyville after the Cubs broke a 108-year drought and won the World Series in 2016. No.
reporter Ronnie Polaneczky in 2008. “We booed a bad Santa. There’s a difference. If it had been a bad Baby Jesus,” one who, say, fell out of his manger, “we would’ve booed him, too.” The worst place for sports? Not surprisingly, it’s an area with a reputation for its own brand of hospitality to visiting fans from the Northeast. Tampa Bay has no NBA team. The Rays play baseball in a domed 1980s relic. The NFL’s Buccaneers are so dismal, they have a section on the team’s Wikipedia page dedicated to their losing streaks. Both teams sit at the bottom of their leagues in attendance.
“I hate the saying ‘I live where you vacation,’ but it’s true,” says Chris Fasick, 41, who runs the largest Tampa . He’s a regular at Bucs and Lightning games who scoffs at critics from places like Boston and Philly. “It’s just jealousy coming from sad Northeasterners because they have to save up all year to come spend a week here.”
The solution: Steal from Boston. The Buccaneers committed $50 million to poach Tom Brady from the Patriots in March and followed it up by luring tight end Rob Gronkowski, Brady’s former teammate and fellow Super Bowl winner, out of retirement to join him. In a gesture of brand bravado, the star quarterback is looking to trademark the names “Tompa Bay” and “Tampa Brady.
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