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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based
in Tampa, Florida. They are currently members of 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. Over time they have been
known as chronic losers, the Buccaneers lost their first 26 games in
franchise history. Raymond James Stadium is a
stadium for football and soccer located in Tampa, Florida. It is home to
the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers as well as the University of South
Florida football team, and was formerly home to the MLS's Tampa Bay
Mutiny. The stadium seats just over 65,000, and it is expandable for
special events. The stadium also hosts the annual Outback Bowl on New
Year's Day, and the Superbowl of Motorsports monster truck event in
mid-January. Super Bowl XXXV was held there on January 28, 2001 between
the Baltimore Ravens and New York Giants. It will host Super Bowl XLIII
in 2009.
Raymond James Stadium was
built primarily to replace the aging Houlihan's Stadium, formerly
located adjacent to the property. It is located on the former site of
the now-demolished Al Lopez Field. The stadium officially opened
September 20, 1998. The final cost of the stadium was $168.5 million,
publicly financed. Originally referred to as Tampa Community Stadium,
the naming rights were bought for $32.5 million for a thirteen-year deal
by St. Petersburg-based Raymond James Financial. On April 27, 2006 an
extention was signed to maintain naming rights through 2015.