Eagles@Buccaneers
Seating Capacity: 66,321
Location: Tampa, Florida
Cost: $168.5M
First Game: 27-15 W vs Chicago Bears on September 20, 1998
-Home to the University of South Florida football team
-Home to the Tampa Bay Mutiny major league soccer team
-Future home of Super Bowl XLIII in 2009
-The Eagles tied a record in 2003 by having only 5 TD catches from WRs all year. The record would be broken in 2004 when the Giants only had 2.
-The infamous "For what...for who?" comment uttered by former Eagles RB Ricky Watters in 1995 after failing to make a catch across the middle was made following the Buccaneers victory at Veterans Stadium.
-Before becoming the headcoach of the Oakland Raiders, and eventually the Buccaneers, John Gruden served as the Offensive Coordinator for the Eagles under Ray Rhodes from 1997-1998.
-The Buccaneers won the last game played at former Eagles stadium Veterans Stadium and the first game at the new stadium, the Linc. Both games were won by 17 points.
-The Buccaneers prior to their victory on the first game of the 1995 season against the Eagles, had lost 27 straight games on Astroturf.
-The Buccaneers had never won a game where the temperature was less than 40*F until 2002 when they defeated the Chicago Bears.
-Tampa Bay is the only team in the NFL that has never returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the regular season. Even though they have done it 5 times in pre-season, at the start of the 2006 season the Bucs had gone 1,764 kickoffs with no TD.
