The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are turning back to their past for the future.
The NFC South champions announced Monday they will be wearing their “Creamsicle” uniforms once they are completed … for the 2023 season.
Big news, Krewe! Throwback uniforms returning in 2023 🧡
Due to global supply chain challenges, we will have to wait one more year than hoped.
— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) February 28, 2022
The team originally held a series of Throwback Games from 2009 to 2012 and they were extremely popular with Buccaneers fans. In addition to outfitting players in uniforms inspired by the orange and white sets the team wore from its inaugural season of 1976 through 1996, the Buccaneers also decked out Raymond James Stadium in orange for those occasions.
The Buccaneers stopped holding Throwback Games in 2013 when the NFL instituted a rule that teams could only fit their players with one set of helmets for an entire season. Since 1997, the Bucs have worn pewter helmets, which would not have worked with the orange and white throwbacks. Last summer, however, the NFL revised that rule to allow teams to fit two sets of helmets, making it possible to have a second color available for throwback uniforms