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 …

Lee Roy Selmon

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The expansion Buccaneers took Selmon No. 1 out of Oklahoma in the 1976 draft and he would be a lone ray of light in the team’s dismal early years. Selmon made the Pro Bowl six times and was named to the NFL’s 100th anniversary all-time team in 2019. He also served as an athletic director at the University of South Florida. He died of a stroke in 2011 at the age of 56.