The Yucks, Jason Vuic
The Yucks, Jason Vuic
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The Yucks
Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

Author: Jason Vuic

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/30/2016


Synopsis

Long before their first Super Bowl victory in 2003, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did something no NFL team had ever done before and that none will ever likely do again: They lost twenty-six games in a row. It started in 1976, in their first season as an expansion team, and it lasted until the penultimate game of the 1977 season, when they defeated Archie Manning and the New Orleans Saints on the road. It was the beginning of a new streak for a team that had come to be called "The Yucks." They won their final game at home, and the fans tore down the goalposts.

This was no ordinary streak. It was an existential curse that unfolded week after week, with Johnny Carson leading the charge on The Tonight Show. Along with their ridiculous mascot and uniforms, the Yucks were a national punch line and personnel purgatory. Owned by the miserly and bulbous-nosed Hugh Culverhouse, the team was the end of the line for Heisman Trophy winner Steve Spurrier, and a banishment for former Cowboy defensive end Pat Toomay after he wrote a tell-all book about his time on "America's Team."

Jason Vuic's The Yucks is an unforgettable and hilarious account of athletic futility and despair.

About Jason Vuic

Jason Vuic is the author of The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History and The Sarajevo Olympics: A History of the 1984 Winter Games. A lifelong Buccaneer fan with degrees from Wake Forest University, the University of Richmond, and Indiana University, he grew up in Punta Gorda, Florida, and now lives in Fort Worth, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen on November 10, 2017

I won this book in a goodreads drawing. A very thorough, well researched history of the first two seasons of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, when they lost a staggering 26 games in a row. The book goes into the origins of the team, and how it wound up in Tampa, instead of an actual city. The owners, the pla......more

Goodreads review by Al on June 07, 2024

This book definitely feels out of the trend in the 2010s for fun 1970s sports story books written by people like Dan Epstein and Jason Turbow. Maybe more than anything it recalls the work of Jeff Pearlman who writes a complimentary blurb for the cover. Which is fine, I love those weird sports storie......more

Goodreads review by Rockobarocco on December 31, 2023

3,5*......more

Goodreads review by Red on January 07, 2017

This is a very readable account of the origin of the Buccaneers franchise, however, for a book being sold on the subtitle of "Two years with the losingest team in NFL history" we get badly shortchanged with meager detail of those first two years and 26 games. By year two, the author is just phoning......more