Tom Brady joins a club of these 22 Tampa Bay sports legends

The Tampa Bay sporting scene has objectively never had a sports legend as big as the one who will be joining them for Sundays next fall. But that doesn’t mean that Tom Brady won’t have his work cut out for him if he wants to become one of the city’s …

Jon Gruden

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His 57-55 mark over seven years with the Buccaneers doesn’t exactly scream “legend,” but you can’t win a Super Bowl in a city and not be beloved. The Buccaneers acquired Gruden in a big trade from the Raiders just before the 2002 season and it paid off as Chucky got the team over the hump that Tony Dungy never quite could. Though he would only make the playoffs in Tampa one more time, he was installed into the Buccaneers’ ring of honor in 2017.