Hypothetical Relocation Question...

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I was on a Sacramento Kings forum reading about them relocating to Seattle and the sadness from the fans made me think about my team.

Hypothetical question: If the Glazers sold the team or relocated them to a different city like L.A. Renamed them the Los Angeles...Earthquakes...or something completely different from Buccaneer.

New city. New owner. New colors. Same record-book.

Would you remain a fan of the franchise? Or would you officially not be a fan of any team?
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Buc Ball · Joined: 09 Oct 2011 Posts: 91

That's a tough one. I don't think I could bring myself to suppor the new team. I definitely wouldn't change to another team.

If that happened and another team moved to Tampa, I would support the new Tampa team.

REDandPEWTER · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 3783

If things don't change in the next 3 years or so then yeah its a real possibility this will start to become more realistic.

DaRealdeal · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:49 am Post subject:

No doubt I would still be a fan. Being from New York, my fandom has nothing to do with geography. I still have never been to Ray Jay...although I hope to make that happen soon.

The new colors would throw me off more than a new city, TBH. Ditching the pewter and red would be disappointing.
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epicMustache · Joined: 19 Jul 2010 Posts: 631 Location: Tallahassee

Because of the way the stadium was built, and the money that came directly from the taxpayers to build it, the city of Tampa Bay has a deal ensuring the team can not relocate for quite some time. I know this is a hypothetical, not dogging on the OP or anything, just letting people know who are saying this could actually happen, that it will not for a very very long time.

Answering hypothetically, however, if the deal weren't in place and the team did decide to relocate, I would become very apathetic toward the NFL in general. I'd probably root on Christian Ponder and the rest of my fellow FSU alum, and heck, the Bucs would probably even stay my team, but I would not care near as much as I do now.

*EDIT* For anyone that doesn't know the time-line of our current deal, the Bucs can't even think about moving until 2025.
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RoeKG · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Posts: 4004 Location: PA

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Buccaneer Bruce · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 136

Nahhh I would quit rooting for the Bucs. I probably would change teams. I did it in the early 80's when the Kings left Kansas City to move to Sacramento, I became a Golden State Warriors fan.

haggis · Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1452

move the team and let them take the record books lol but keep the team name and colors and wait for another team

bucstopshere · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 12482 Location: Las Vegas

If they hypothethically moved im guessing its to LA or Vegas (when we build our super stadium. look...)

Then it would just make it easier for me to make games. Location was never a factor. I will say that whatever name we change to, that would be the hard part. Like DRD said love the pewter and red, so we'd have to do some special stuff for me to like a color change
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RoeKG · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Posts: 4004 Location: PA

Soul Glo · Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Posts: 2758 Location: FL

I left Tampa around 7 years ago and still remained a Bucs fan, so though I'd be real disappointed in our team moving, geography would not effect me and I'd remain a fan.

mfw096 · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 2621 Location: Las Vegas