Found October 29, 2009 on Shutdown Corner:
In 1995, Malcolm Glazer outbid George Steinbrenner (marking the last recorded instance of a Steinbrenner outbid) for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Glazer paid a then-record $192 million for the team, which sounds like relative chump change now. Forbes recently valued the Bucs at $1.085 billion, eighth-highest among NFL teams. But the Bucs entered the 2009 season with the most room available under the salary cap, and they remain approximately $23 million under at a time when other teams are using creative accounting to get their roster under the glass ceiling. The team is 0-6, rookie coach Raheem Morris looks to be in over his head, and the quarterback battle is between two inexperienced Joshes -- Johnson and Freeman. The formerly impenetrable defense looks incapable of stopping a good Valdosta State team, and fans are apoplectic. Not Washington Redskins apoplectic, but pretty fed up. It's now coming out that the story of the Buccaneers may have more to do with what's happening o...
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