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Article: TAMPA BAY'S REVIVAL TAKES IT TO GREEN BAY.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 29, 1997
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The final seconds ticked off the clock and the pewter and red-clad Tampa Bay Buccaneers vowed to stop playing a game of perception vs. reality.
One-time NFL doormats who have changed their fortune under second-year coach Tony Dungy, the Bucs proved again yesterday they are not the same team that became synonymous with losing during a decade-plus of futility.
Playing with the poise of postseason veterans, rather than upstarts, the Bucs beat the Detroit Lions 20-10 in the NFC wild-card game at Houlihan's Stadium.
The victory marked another significant step under Dungy, who inherited a team in 1996 that hadn't finished with a winning record or ...