The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (sometimes abbreviated as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. They currently belong to the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team, along with the Seattle Seahawks, joined the NFL as 1976 expansion teams. The club is currently owned by Malcolm Glazer and coached by head coach Jon Gruden.

Historically known as a chronic loser, the Bucs lost their first 26 games in franchise history. After a brief winning era in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the team suffered through 14 straight losing seasons. However, they have been a contender for most of the last decade, and won Super Bowl XXXVII at the end of the 2002 season.