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Tampa Bay Bandits USFL

Tampa Bay Bandits

The Tampa Bay Bandits were a popular entry in the United States Football League during the mid-1980’s. During a particularly grim era for the Hugh Culverhouse-owned Buccaneeers of the NFL, the Bandits played an exciting, high scoring brand of football and packed big crowds into Tampa Stadium in the springtime. The team had a high-wattage ownership group that included America’s #1 box office star of the early 80’s, Burt Reynolds. Read more…

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1975 Tampa Bay Rowdies Media Guide from the North American Soccer League

Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975-1993)

North American Soccer League (1975-1984) American Indoor Soccer Association (1986-1987) American Soccer League (1988-1989) American Professional Soccer League (1990-1993) Born: 1974 – NASL expansion franchise

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Carlos Valderrama on the cover of a 1996 Tampa Bay Mutiny media guide from Major League Soccer

Tampa Bay Mutiny

The Tampa Bay Mutiny were one of the ten founding franchises of Major League Soccer in the spring of 1996. Tampa had been a stronghold of the old North American Soccer League during the late 1970’s and early 80’s with the popular Rowdies club. But the Mutiny, despite a stellar debut season in 1996, were never able to establish a foothold. Chief among numerous on-field and front office troubles, the league-owned Mutiny never had an investor-operator during their six seasons of play, ultimately leading to the team’s closure in early 2002.

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