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This is called getting into the war paint zone.

Game day ready, baby.

My parents were blue collar growing up.

So they didn't make a lot of money.

And I remember my mom and dad saved money up

for the Florida professional football camp.

The neat thing about going to that camp

is all the players coming in.

Steve Wilson, Doug Williams, Lee Roy Selman.

Oh my goodness, you know, the legend.

When I was at football camp, you know,

yeah, I was a fat heavy kid, but I was strong.

They said, go to your position.

So I went to the defensive line coach,

he goes, kid, you're too small.

You got to go to the linebackers,

the linebacker coach, he goes,

kid, you're not fast enough.

I'm sitting there.

I'm literally getting choked up

and Mark Cotney...

Cotney comes up with his first interception of the year.

Captain Crunch number 33 comes up to me,

never seen him a day in my life.

Didn't know him as a kid, puts his arm around me

and he goes, don't worry about it.

You're coming with us.

Little did I know he was a defensive back.

He took the time out to work with me,

a fat kid, slow and chubby,

and actually made something of me.

This is Mark Cotney's autograph saying,

"Keep working, Mark Cotney, 33, Go Bucs."

I used to make sure I stood just like him, you know,

like I was like being Mark Cotney,

you know, out there.

I'll never forget at the end of that camp,

I ended up getting the Most Improved award,

which is this little football trophy about yay hi.

To this day, it's the most valuable memorabilia

I have of any Buccaneer.

It's hard to say to people in words,

how much a child could be changed.

Wow, just, just amazing how those little things in life

make a big deal later on down the road.

When Doug came in and provided the spark

that he provided for our offense, it was inspiring,

you know, it's fun to play when

you know you have a chance to be good.

We're in three playoffs out of four years,

and I'm all excited,

we're going to sign Doug Williams again,

get another four or five years out of him, this will be great.

At that particular time, there was only 28 teams

in the National Football League,

and my salary ranked number 54 throughout the league.

My backup quarterback was making more money than me,

so that's where I stood from a pay stand point.

It was that bad.

You know, they offered a certain amount of money,

$400,000, and I was asking for six,

and everybody was making six, seven, and $800,000,

so I asked for six.

I said, I've been here five years, played my ass off,

I got beat up, whatever you want,

I said, I'm not playing for no if money.

Obviously, he was one of the biggest reason,

if not the biggest reason, that we had had the success.

We wanted such good things for Doug,

and wanted him to get his money.

More importantly, we wanted him to be happy.

The one thing I did understand

was the fact that it wasn't all about football.

You know, life, don't live or die with football.

In 1982, I got married.

the next thing you know, we was expecting the baby girl,

and January the 14th, we had a baby girl.

At the end of the season,

they came to my house for dinner,

they left my house to drive to Zachary, Louisiana,

to see his family, to show them the baby.

One morning, she woke up and told me she had a headache,

and it was hurting so bad,

so we got in the van and drove to the hospital,

and when we got there, they took x-rays and everything,

and the doctor came out and told me she had aneurysm.

And that night, you know,

she started feeling bad,

and it was raining, it was storming,

and the doctor came out and told me that she was gone.

That was a heck of a burden on that young man.

It just, every person on the Buccaneers

felt so sorry for him.

I had a five-month-old daughter,

and the most important thing was to do something

that's going to make sure that you and her can be comfortable.

I remember when I got the call that she had passed,

and that was a devastating phone call for me.

In the midst of all that, man, he's dealing with a contract.

We were hoping that Culverhouse would have signed him

to another contract, but he was adamant.

He did not want Doug Williams as his quarterback anymore.

John McKay drafted him, not Culverhouse.

I know it bothered Coach McKay, because that was his guy.

My dad was a church and state guy, right?

You're church, state, you're separate.

You're not, you don't get involved as a football coach

in contracts.

You don't get involved in the business side.

It became deflating to him over time,

and what I think really bothered him with the situation

is how it became personal for Doug.

Because of the way the league was structured,

even though your contract's up,

they still had your rights,

so unless they traded your rights,

you couldn't do anything.

I didn't play no football in '83 period, nowhere,

and I got a call later on about playing in the USFL.

Today, a new football season began.

The United States Football League,

the USFL starts with owners who have money,

two nationwide television contracts worth $35 million,

and some name coaches.

So Doug signed with the USFL, the Oklahoma Outlaws,

and that was it for Doug's career at Tampa Bay.

That's the thing, you know, to get a new start,

a new opportunity to play football,

because it's obvious that down in Tampa

that the people didn't show that they really

wanted me to play, so I would like to be somewhere

that the people appreciate me and want me to play.

The most important thing I learned here in Tampa

is the fact that it's all about family.

No matter what happens, and I think going through here

with the contract situation and losing my wife

in the same year was probably

one of the toughest times that any individual

could ever have, and most important thing is survival,

and I found a way to put all that behind me

and just go forward and do what you can do.

Yeah, Doug Williams, when he left,

kind of took the steam right out of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Hopefully, with Doug gone,

we can continue to play good football,

and I wish Doug the best of luck when he goes to Oklahoma.

Can you imagine losing a quarterback,

a franchise quarterback that's taken you from worst to first?

Culverhouse felt Doug wasn't worth it,

and we went from first to worst.

You've got to remember, he was our leader.

Doug was the leader. He led that team.

We talk about the Doug Williams curse,

and I knew from then on,

they're going to have trouble winning here.

It all came crashing down

when the management did not want to pay Doug.

Fans called it the Doug Williams curse.

By treating him so poorly,

we had cursed ourselves, and our owner had cursed us.

One of 1983's worst entries was the Tampa Bay Bucs,

so they were the first to open camp on Tuesday.

Coach John McKay will probably spend a lot of time

standing on the practice field with a cigar between his lips

wishing he could get quarterback Doug Williams

back from the USFL.

We had a great group of guys,

but we just was not innovative enough,

offensively, to be successful.

My dad's health in 84, not good.

So he had been saying all along,

I don't know how much longer this is gonna go.

He had heart issues.

He is week to week.

I just remember my mom telling me,

"Hey, your dad's gonna do a press conference today

and your dad's gonna retire today."

The craziest game that I ever played in

was John McKay's last game in 1984.

I was starting quarterback

and we had a running back named James Wilder.

He had a great year that year

and he was on pace to break O.J. Simpson's

all-purpose total yard record,

which means rushing and pass receiving.

And so John McKay's mission for this game

is to get James Wilder the all-time NFL record.

Wilder! Wilder! Wilder! Wilder!

DeBERG: We're just running the ball as much as we can

and they know it.

Wilder, no surprise.

Keeps the knees churning.

Pitch back, Wilder...

What a play, Wilder.

Touchdown, James Wilder.

In the fourth quarter, James Wilder makes

a four-yard touchdown.

That is it, touchdown. James Wilder.

And when he did that,

the announcer came on to PA and said,

"And James Wilder needs 20 more yards to break

the all-time NFL total yard record."

And John McKay goes, "oh, shit."

He tells the kickoff team to onside kick.

And it's up in the air for anybody.

The Jets recover the ball.

John McKay comes up to me and he says,

we need to get the ball back

so we can get the ball to James Wilder.

DeBERG: Let 'em score.

Wesley Walker on the catch.

From the 22 yard line. O'Brian, again.

And we basically fall down.

We do a poor job of letting them score

because it's too obvious.

Touchdown.

The Jets players not happy.

So now they onside kick.

And here they come. Boots, and it's on the hop.

The ball is loose.

And the Bucs come up with it.

Oh, brother.

We get the ball.

But we have no timeouts.

So McKay tells us we're just going to go sweep left,

sweep right, sweep left until the clock runs out.

Want to bet Wilder gets the ball?

Wilder, Wilder.

Wilder again.

No game.

Wilder's got the ball.

Not going to happen.

There'll be no record today for James Wilder.

But he sure came close and had a fantastic season.

DeBERG: James Wilder ended up short of the record.

And that was the craziest game of my career.

Of course, my dad gets fined by the league

for not being competitive.

It's a big fine.

In those days, he didn't leave the league

happy with that fine.

Okay, fellas, we played a good game and we won.

And I apologize to the Jets in a way.

We tried to get Wilder to set the record.

It was very difficult.

But they did try to onside kick the ball.

I think it was a good game. It was my last game.

I enjoyed it.

That's about all I have to say.

So this is my dad's hat.

He started wearing this hat. Maybe it's in the 79 year.

So now we get to the last game.

I remember exactly how it went.

He got home.

He was still in his outfit and gave me the hat and said,

"Hey, let's keep this hat. It may come in handy one day."

I leave the arena with the thought

that we have a solid team and there are some things

we have to do and we'll get those done

in the very near future.

Adios, gentlemen. God bless you.

- Thank you, John. - Thanks, John.

I got to say that with my career here with Coach McKay,

I grew to love that guy as a coach, as a person,

he became a friend.

John McKay loved his players.

Would do anything for his players.

Would fight for his players.

Coach just wishes us the best of luck.

He always wishes us well no matter what we do,

whether we're playing football

or in any other type of endeavor.

And basically, that was what he told us.

And he expressed his appreciation.

He has all my respect as one of the great coaches

that coached this game.

I wish things would have been better

because I sure wanted that Super Bowl championship.

My God, to be a champion was all our goals.

Coach McKay, myself, Lee Roy, Doug.

And when things started to break down and unravel,

it really hurt the team.

I was participating, actually, in a Pro Bowl game.

And I felt a twinge in the back and didn't realize what it was.

Thought it was a muscle strain, a muscle pull,

or something like that.

Only to discover later on that it was a herniated disc.

If you're playing this game, play it at your hardest.

Play it at the best level that you possibly can.

But also realizing that any one play could be your last play.

And we never know when that's going to happen.

Lee Roy had big shoulders.

He carried a lot.

Always very unassuming.

I don't think he ever realized how great he was.

Fans, please welcome number 63,

Lee Roy Selmon.

I'll never forget this.

One night at 2 o'clock, I woke up.

Lee Roy was crying.

I immediately thought that, well, you know,

we haven't won a game in 15 games.

So that may be it.

He looked at me and said,

there's a lot of young kids and people who hurt in this world.

We have to do what we can to make life good

for every person on Earth.

That he would, even during a time that he was losing,

he would point to the need of other people.

I think that was a driving force that drove him

for the rest of his life.

Tampa always draws a connection with anybody

who is a good person and gives effort in the community.

That's what lights a fire instantly in this community.

And that was Lee Roy Selmon.

The L.A. Express of the USFL announced today

they have signed BYU quarterback Steve Young

to a deal that reportedly will pay him $40 million.

Young, the left-hander is up to the cross the middle.

Steve Young with better than 400 yards himself.

After college at BYU, I had this opportunity to go to the USFL,

which is a spring league which was signing all

the top talent, Herschel Walker and Reggie White.

So I decided to go down to the USFL.

I want to say that I think it's difficult

to put it into perspective in a sense that,

you know, geez, why don't you just go with the known?

This is something that's new, obviously.

As far as I'm concerned, I just want to go play ball.

Young puts it all in the end zone!

Touchdown!

The USFL lasted three seasons

and they were intending to continue playing

but disbanded before that final season happened.

The Players Association came to an agreement

with the league to allow all of us that went

to the USFL to be drafted in a supplemental draft.

The NFL held a draft of USFL and CFL players today.

Tampa Bay went for Express Quarterback Steve Young first.

I remember landing in Tampa

in the middle of the season.

Leeman Bennett was the coach and Leeman Bennett,

what I understood, was selling RVs the year before.

I liked Coach Bennett.

He was a collegial good guy that wanted good things for people.

We haven't won as many games as we would like to win but,

nevertheless, I feel like

we have at least laid the cornerstone

for the future and I'm looking forward to it.

I just got into town. I don't play the first week.

Steve DeBerg, he's starting.

He goes to the line of scrimmage

and we had this really complex audibling scheme.

I've never seen anything like it before

or after in my whole life.

In those days, we hardly ever audible

but they had a really good defense.

And so he gets to the line of scrimmage

and he's like, check, check, red, 65.

He wants to change the play.

Then the defense adjusts

and he's like, check, check, check, no, no, not that.

He's at the line of scrimmage saying this, not that, not that.

I had to call my own plays.

I'm yelling out.

Red, 57, 57, 57.

The defense does something else, he goes,

check, check, check, the clock's going down.

He's like, check, check, check, go back to the original play.

He yells it out, go back to the original play

and then they run the play.

That was the greatest audible in the history of man.

Yeah, that was hard.

There weren't a lot of losers in the locker room,

but there was a lot of losing

and so in that way, it was a shock.

I don't know if Steve Young knew what he was getting into.

He played at BYU, all kinds of accolades when he went there.

At the five! He's good!

DeBERG: He seriously could have played quarterback,

running back, wide receiver, DB.

He could have played any of those.

That's how athletic he was.

My first start, we played the Detroit Lions at home

and I ran all over the place.

Young is hit.

He's gonna run with it again, and he's got lots of room.

Steve Young with just outstanding mobility.

DeBERG: It was electrifying.

When he would run, fans would go crazy.

It was stuff that people didn't see up to that point.

He was one of the first to be doing it that way.

Steve Young, a lot of excitement

for his first playing time in the NFL, 24 yards.

Donald Igwebuike wins the ball game

for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Steve Young, a happy young man.

He was the 12th quarterback to start a game

for the Buccaneers and he was the first one

to win his very first start,

so there was some optimism there.

Leeman Bennett and his Buccaneers must be pleased.

The next week, we flew to Green Bay

and had the biggest blizzard in Green Bay history.

What about Steve Young making his second start

in the National Football League?

How's he going to react to these kinds of conditions?

Talking to him right before the game,

he was concerned about the wind and the snow,

difficult conditions here in Green Bay.

We'll find out how the Buccaneers

like it here in Antarctica.

We're all in white and I can't see anything.

Like literally, I drop back to pass, I'm like, it's a blizzard.

I can't see it. I'm dressed in white.

Steve Young, back to pass, into the wind

and it is ruled incomplete.

That was a game that defensive end

for the Packers put me down in a sack

and jammed my face in the snow and it packed in my face

and I couldn't breathe.

Carrecker with his fifth sack of the afternoon.

I was freaking out and trying to get so I could get some breath.

I'm like, I can't breathe!

I can't, it's too much snow.

He got his face and his whole helmet pushed down

at least halfway into the snow.

Half of his helmet was in the snow then.

Just before half, I think I'm 0 for like 10

and I'm like, oh my gosh,

what if I'm the first player in the history of the game

that didn't complete a pass?

I was panicked about it.

I told James Wilder, James, look,

I'm going to drop back to pass and I'm going to shovel

you the ball and at least I'll be one for something.

Here's Young back to pass, time,

complete to Wilder.

And the ice and the snow and the cold, the blizzard.

Green Bay Packers have defeated the Buccaneers 21 to nothing

and it was total domination by the Green Bay Packers.

By the end of the season, we go two and 14.

I mean, it was, it's rough, it was rough.

Losing is an infection and it gets into the bones,

it can't get out of it.

They've gotten an infusion of enthusiasm

with their new quarterback.

I think they just have to regroup.

They're a team that has to shake that losing attitude.

You get to 1986, the Buccaneers have

the first pick in the upcoming draft.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the fifth time

in the last 11 years have the first pick.

The question is, who will they select?

The big discussion has been, of course,

Bo Jackson, the Heisman Trophy winner of 1986.

What a football player he is.

He's capable of going all the way on any point.

Bo Jackson is considered the best running back prospect

to come along since O.J. Simpson.

He's also a very good baseball player

and he loves playing baseball.

But now the discussion is whether

he's going to go pro baseball or pro football.

Just outstanding in both sports.

He had not decided at that point

if he was going to play baseball or football.

But how would he turn down the instant millions

of an NFL contract compared to making peanuts

going to the minor leagues in baseball?

Preparing yourself for the future.

Baseball, football.

After all, I'll just play ball.

So we're recruiting Bo Jackson.

And Mr. Culverhouse says,

well, we'll have him come down for a visit.

Come to Tampa. Let's see if you like the area.

Show you the locker room.

Meet some of the coaches. That type of thing.

Bo Jackson was assured that he was not in any way

risking the rest of his baseball eligibility

if he took this flight.

However, that was not the case because

it was Hugh Culverhouse's private plane.

Bo did not pay for the ticket.

Once he gets on that plane,

it nullifies his amateurism at the NCAA.

That was what ended up being the violation.

When he went back the next day to play baseball,

the baseball coach at Auburn says...

Your baseball career is over at Auburn.

They said Bo wanted to take a bat and just eat it,

he was so upset.

There were rumors.

Did Hugh Culverhouse do this on purpose

to end his chances at being in baseball?

Bo got in touch with Mr. Culverhouse and said,

"don't ever think about drafting me.

I will never, ever come to Tampa and play for you."

After all that kind of stuff,

Mr. Culverhouse, who I developed a little relationship with

and we and he and I had conversations,

he asked me, would you go to dinner

with Bo Jackson and myself?

And Mr. Culverhouse said,

let's see if we can convince him to come.

And so we go to dinner.

Bo comes in, says hello and sits down.

Mr. Culverhouse was saying something to the maître ' d

or whoever kind of sat us.

He turned to me like literally didn't even hardly

say hello and said, "hey, by the way, I'm never coming here."

And I'm like, "We didn't even sit down."

I'm like, "Really?"

He goes, "Yeah, no, I'm never coming here."

And I said, "Well, what are you doing here?"

And he goes, "Oh, yeah, my agent,

he wants me to come down here and make it."

You know, he was saying something about making it

look good or something.

And... but he was not happening.

And then afterwards Mr. Culverhouse says,

"What do you think?

It felt like it went pretty well."

You know, I'm like, "Mr. Culverhouse,

I think, I think it's a no."

There will be no mistaking this.

The Buccaneers will make a pick.

There will not be a trade.

It appears they're going with Bo Jackson.

Buccaneers select first choice,

running back from Auburn, Bo Jackson.

The Buccaneers called his bluff, still drafted him.

We're very pleased with the draft of Bo.

One thing, it's not a gamble as to his talent.

And I'll take the gamble

on whether he plays football or baseball.

They thought that he would change his mind.

Well, in sports today, Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson

shocked the football world by signing a reported

five year, five million dollar contract

with the Kansas City Royals.

Jackson left more than seven million dollars

on a Tampa Bay uniform

to don the colors of the Double A Memphis Chicks.

I told him he's not coming.

Like he looked me in the eye and told me he's not coming.

But no one would believe me. So...

When you lose the first pick in the draft

and not get nothing out of it, it's a killer.

It's a roster killer.

It's a team killer.

It's a coach killer.

It really set the organization back

and it was already set back.

After one year, you get to go back into the draft

and then the Raiders drafted him.

And out in front and only one man...

Can't run him down.

He had the angle,

but there goes Bo and nobody catches Bo.

Touchdown.

He may not stop 'til Tacoma.

That was just another thing that you could list

to why did it stay so bad for so long?

Good afternoon, everyone.

And we really sincerely wish you a happy holiday season.

The Cardinals, the home team. They've only won three times.

And of course, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers only twice.

DeBERG: 1986, last game.

If we lose this game,

we're guaranteed the number one pick in the next year's draft.

A lot of people in Tampa Bay would like to see the team lose,

so they would get Vinny Testaverde.

Whether or not he could beat out Steve Young

would remain to be seen.

Well, I think that's for the management to worry about,

really, the management.

Maybe the coaches have that a little bit in the back

of their mind, but they do have Steve Young,

a fine young quarterback,

and they can build that organization

around a guy like that.

It started from the first series.

The coach would tell me the play.

I would signal it to Steve, and he would go, what?

Run, handoff.

Thrown for a loss.

It would be third down and 15 yards,

and we'd call a running play try to get one yard.

Quick draw, and it's a misdirection to Howard again.

A loss of another yard.

He would come over on the sideline,

and he's going, what's going on?

You know, you guys are calling ridiculous bad plays.

A lot of time and a good throw.

It's intercepted this time, not a good throw.

We would know what defense they're going to run,

and we would call the play.

It would be the worst play you could run against that defense.

Straight drop.

Under a rush, but it's intercepted.

I got thinking about it.

Is somebody telling people that, hey, we need to lose this game,

and then we'll get the number one draft choice?

Got a receiver open.

Young has got to be frustrated.

If this was a plan for the Buccaneers

to try not to win that game,

nobody bothered to let Steve Young know.

Is this an inside joke that I don't know about

and no one told me?

Good throw, in and out of hands again.

If I were Steve Young, I'd be upset, too.

My emotions were, I just overrun with it.

I poured myself into the season,

poured myself into that last game,

and just got run over.

And we go two and 14.

And so now we have the first draft choice.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers

had the worst record in the NFL this season.

They were last in team defense and next to last in offense.

In two years under Leeman Bennett, they were 4 and 28.

And yet Bennett says he was surprised

when owner Hugh Culverhouse fired him.

This somewhat surprised me this morning

when we talked some 15 or 20 minutes ago.

I'm really not prepared to make any speeches.

Leeman Bennett gets fired.

In comes Ray Perkins.

Not a miracle worker.

I don't want the Tampa fans to think so.

I do believe very strongly that we will win.

When? I don't know.

Ray Perkins was an established, well-known coach.

Fans here want a winner, they expect a winner.

The media wants a winner, they expect a winner.

But they'll get a winner. I guarantee you that.

You guarantee? Money-back guarantee?

I guarantee it.

Vinny Testaverde is going to be a big, big factor.

Just before the draft,

Coach Perkins just calls me and he says,

"Hey, Young, you've been traded to the Cardinals

and take care" and hangs up.

And I'm like, oh my gosh, could it get any worse?

This is a disaster.

So I called Mr. Culverhouse

and I said, "Mr. Culverhouse,

"Coach Perkins just called me

"and said he's traded me to the St. Louis Cardinals.

"You told me just recently that I was your quarterback for life

and now I'm traded."

And he goes, "Yeah, I know, I'm sorry.

"New coach and tall, big, far-strong arm guy.

He really wants him."

And I was like, "Look, Mr. Culverhouse, I get it.

"It's fine.

"But like, you can't send me to St. Louis.

Give me a chance to find some place."

And he said, "I agree.

"I told you that I committed to you for life

and now I got to mend it. I got to make it right."

And he called and nixed the trade.

I mean, what owner has ever said that to a player, ever?

And then next thing I know, Bill Walsh is calling me.

The 49ers acquired a backup quarterback today.

Steve Young comes to San Francisco from Tampa Bay

in exchange for the Niners' second,

second-round draft choice, their fourth pick, and cash.

Bill Walsh is an absolute genius.

And I think that to learn from him,

I think if I'm any good, we'll find out from,

because I think of any potential I have,

he'll be able to bring it out.

You could say that I'm in the Pro Football Hall of Fame

and I got to thank Hugh Culverhouse

for allowing me to find a place.

The 52nd annual National Football League

selection meeting is now in session.

Tampa selects on the first round.

Quarterback, Vinny Testaverde,

University of Miami.

Vinny, we have your jersey, number 14,

which is your college number.

And we want you to score at least 14 points for every game.

I know it's going to take a lot of hard work

to take a giant step forward into winning,

but we're all going to put our heads together and try the best.

During my senior year in college,

we're in the locker room on a Sunday morning.

There's the Bucs on the television playing,

and some of my college teammates started teasing me,

saying that that's where I was going to play next year.

And I was thinking to myself, "Yeah, that's okay,

because I'm going to make a difference when I get there."

I'm really excited about Vinny Testaverde

joining the Bucs.

Vinny, baby, do us a favor.

The Heisman trophy winner has sparked a hope in fans

that has been non-existent for a very long time.

The Buccaneers didn't want to start him

right off the bat in his rookie season,

so it wasn't until the end of the season

where Vinny got his first start.

Back to pass.

Going long, out there Carrier.

He's got it, touchdown Buccaneers.

Wasn't that fantastic?

He threw for 369 yards and really saw

what could be a really high-powered passing attack.

Vinny to pass.

Fires, touchdown.

The final scorer might be in favor of the Saints,

but Vinny Testaverde has really played a good football game.

The Buccaneers didn't win that game,

but it was still really promising.

Now this team has a lot of talent.

Now we still have a little bit of a way to go.

I think coming into the next year,

we're going to have that team.

Testaverde drops. He's going deep.

He's got a man.

Vinny was obviously very, very talented.

And then in his second season,

1988, turnovers just pile up throughout the season.

Testaverde goes back, loads up, fires,

intercepted by the Eagles.

As a young team that wasn't winning,

it kind of knocks you down.

From the shotgun.

A play mix-up.

I think they played bad for the most part.

Terrible for some part and good never.

He's trying, like you said, to finesse the ball

between the defensive back playing safety,

then it would just overthrow a little bit too much.

In college football, what they did in Miami was legendary.

But when quarterbacks come out of Cadillacs

and then you put them into Fords,

you may not see the same player.

Third interception of the day for Testaverde.

And he's going to be a great player.

He's not right now.

But he's going to be a great player

as he learns and as he gets experience.

Look out.

30, 25, 20, Eugene Daniel will score.

Touchdown, Colts.

He had thrown a league-leading 35 interceptions.

You know, anytime you step on the field, you want to win.

So anytime you lose, it makes it hard.

They should have won the game.

I mean, they should have blown them away.

It was kind of a rocky relationship

with me and the fans.

It was a love-hate relationship.

11:22 to go.

Up the middle to William Howard.

On first down.

Testaverde was telling us last night,

Terry asked him about his problems in seeing things

and seeing a clear picture.

And he told us an interesting story.

He's somewhat colorblind.

We were doing a game in Detroit

and Terry Bradshaw, he asked me some questions

and somehow me being colorblind came up.

In trying to pack for the game today,

couldn't get the coordination right.

His wife had gone off to aerobics class or something,

and Testaverde didn't know if things matched.

So he had to call her up on the phone.

She had to come home, pack his stuff, and bring it to him.

This was just an anecdote he was telling to Terry Bradshaw.

It didn't have anything to do with his play on the field.

But the media, the fans,

and the radio stations here jumped all over it immediately.

A radio station here in Tampa actually bought a billboard.

They made the whole thing a field of blue,

and then the words said, Vinny thinks this is orange.

Back in my era,

the home team always wore their dark colored jerseys

and the away teams always wore white.

As a quarterback reading a defense,

you just see dark and light and the movement of those players.

So it never affected me on the football field.

Testaverde going to the 10, to the 5.

He runs it for a touchdown.

He had the most God-given talent

I've ever seen for a quarterback in all my years.

And young quarterbacks just throw interceptions.

It's not because he's colorblind,

it's because playing quarterback in NFL is hard.

Unfortunately for the Buccaneers,

Vinny was exposed to Ray Perkins.

Let's go.

I have the utmost respect for Ray Perkins.

Now that being said, if you walk by him

in the hallway on a Tuesday with nobody else in the building,

he may not look at you and say hi.

Everything we did was very simple.

The way Ray coached and Vinny's temperament,

that was not the guy for Vinny Testaverde.

His first three teams, each lost 11 games.

The win yesterday was only the fifth for them this year.

Perkins was fired today and replaced

by assistant Richard Williamson.

In the NFL, you can get into a spiral

of change the coach, change the quarterback.

After 15 losses in 19 games in just over a year,

Williamson's out.

After that Sam Wyche came.

Sam Wyche was coming from Cincinnati

after he had success there.

So he had the reputation coming from a winning team,

but it just wasn't clicking.

Vinny was just trying to survive.

I remember he said to me, what do you think I should do?

I go, what do you mean? He says, should I stay?

Because Vinny was being blamed for everything happening here.

And it wasn't him.

I thought it'd probably be best for me

to change scenery, get with a different team,

and kind of just have a fresh start.

Free agent Vinny Testaverde is hoping to make football fun again,

but he will begin on the bench in Cleveland.

I'm going to come in and compete for the job.

It takes two quarterbacks a lot of the times

to win the Super Bowl.

I hope to be a part of that, and that's why I'm here,

because I think this team is ready to be in that game.

Vinny went on to play 21 years in the NFL,

and he had some pretty prolific seasons.

Testaverde with time, throws over the middle.

Johnson touchdown.

Wow.

Vinny Testaverde.

The Buccaneers had been looking for a quarterback

ever since they lost Doug Williams.

Immediately after, Doug Williams walked away.

One failed attempt after another.

This was a franchise that had 12 straight

double-digit losing seasons.

It really felt like everyone who ended up leaving the Bucs

behind found great success with another football team.

The Doug Williams curse seemed to hang over everything

the Buccaneers tried to do,

and it took a very long time to break it.

Good afternoon from Jack Murphy Stadium

in San Diego, California.

They road to Super Bowl 22 stops right here.

I wind up getting the head coach of the Redskins,

and when the USFL folded

and getting Doug Williams,

became a possibility.

I said, we need that guy.

Doug Williams, the first Black man to start at quarterback

in the National Football League's Super Bowl.

Couldn't take my eyes off the game.

I was a big Doug Williams fan.

I knew Doug was not going to fail.

I watched the game, my family and I.

I was a freshman in college.

I had a Super Bowl party.

I'm on the 50 yard line.

And they're playing Denver.

I just never liked Denver.

John Elway had a lead, and I was like,

this is going to be Denver Broncos day.

Slipping down is William, and he's hurt.

He might be hurt.

It was like he did a split.

It was a tough looking thing.

Did you see him twist his leg when he went down?

Boy, did he have his one leg in there at an awkward angle.

So here comes Schroeder.

I said to myself, let him take a break

and make sure the trainers check him over.

And so I made a decision to send Schroeder in.

And Doug turned to him and said,

"Back to the sideline.

This is my team. I'm staying in here."

Doug got hot.

They scored 35 points.

It was over, just like that.

We are seeing a virtuoso performance.

Most Valuable player is quarterback Doug Williams

of the Washington Redskins.

I was there when he came off the field.

I mean, I could not stop crying.

I was very, very happy for him.

I just remember Doug walking off the field

like the world had been lifted off of his back.

Talk about your moment in the sun.

How much farther could we be from Tampa?

How long ago that must seem to Doug Williams?

To let a quality quarterback go

and then to go on and win a Super Bowl, that hurts.

I don't know if it's so much, you know,

a curse as it hurts.

This was supposed to be my quarterback.

I was supposed to be catching passes from him

in the Super Bowl.

I've been in the league, been playing football now

for 10 years, and I just got an opportunity

to get to the Super Bowl.

And the most important thing to me was winning it.

I was happy to see Doug Williams win the Super Bowl.

But for the Bucs and all the double digit losing,

it's like, okay, how much longer is this gonna go?

Man, whoo, that could have been us.

That could have been us.

Steve DeBerg, take four. Mark.

Steve Spurrier, take one.

- Mark Cotney. - Coach Gibbs, take three, mark.

The greatest Buccaneer of all time.

He would either be Lee Roy Selmon

or be Doug Williams.

Wow.

Greatest Buccaneer of all time...

It's not really...

I really think...

Can't do it.

You're gonna have to keep me here.

Okay. I got the easy answer for that.

I'm not picking one. Okay?

Because there's too many people who helped build the Bucs.

Probably Lee Roy Selmon.

Lee Roy is certainly a great one,

but they've had so many fantastic

Hall of Fame players here.

I mean, Lee Roy Selmon dominated games

from a defensive end part, but I mean, he just was...

I'm changing my opinion.

I think the greatest guy is Lee Roy Selmon.

I think the greatest Tampa Buccaneer player

would be Doug Williams.