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Friday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in "a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofessional depths" (Publishers Weekly) : the first two seasons with the worst team in NFL history, the hapless, hilarious, and hopelessly winless 1976-1977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.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. This was no ordinary streak. Along with their ridiculous mascot and uniforms, which were known as "the Creamsicles," 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 and University of Florida hero 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.
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Jason Vuic is a writer and historian from Fort Worth, Texas, who specializes in popular-press writing and narrative storytelling for mass audiences. His first book, The Yugo: the Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History, was reviewed in over sixty print and web-based publications, including The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Car and Driver, Mother Jones, Wired.com, Slate.com, Time.com, and Vanity Fair.com. It was also one of five books mentioned in Vanity Fair's March 2010 column "Hot Type" and was the "pick of the day" on the exclusive media website veryshortlist.com. Jason has appeared on NPR's "Weekend Edition" and APM's "Marketplace," on "Fox and Friends in the Morning," on C-SPAN's "Book TV," on CBC's "The Current," and on a live segment of Bloomberg News. A graduate of Wake Forest University, he holds an M.A. in history from the University of Richmond and a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University Bloomington. He has been both a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar, and has given invited talks at such prestigious institutions as Washington and Lee University and the Harvard Business School.
