Posts Tagged ‘buccaneers’

On Sunday December 27, 2009, in the 15th game for the New Orleans Saints they faced of against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  The game was at the Superdome in New Orleans.

After driving down the field with ease against the New Orleans Saints, Kicker Connor Barth of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrates after kicking the winning field goal to defeat the New Orleans Saints 20-17 in overtime.

Well, who cares right?  Wrong.  Destiny cares.  The Saints still locked up the #1 seed in the NFC and the bye in the playoffs but the TB at NO game might have been destiny giving us a look into the future.  NEVER has a team that lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the regular season gone on to win the Super bowl.  This is known as the Tampa Bay curse.  Sound far fetched and stupid?  Well the Buccaneers are the only team in NFL history this is true for.  And it’s not like the Buccaneers were anything special this year, and by our rankings system they were one of the worst.

So New Orleans not only has to overcome their own curse of no Super bowls, they also have to destroy the Tampa Bay curse along the way.  Oh yeah, they also have to beat one of the best QBs of all time in Peyton Manning.