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The author, a former beat writer for The Tampa Tribune, was asked to contribute to the selection and ranking of the top 50 players.

Difficult decisions included where to rank Tom Brady and whether to consider off-field character issues, such as in the case of Warren Sapp.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are entering their 50th season. Not to date myself but I still vividly remember attending their first home preseason game in 1976 with some friends and realizing quicker than the two-minute drill how bad they were going to be.

Not 26-game losing streak bad, mind you. But, yes, their roster was very thin and not very talented.

Much has happened since then, including a pair of Super Bowl championships, but there was a lot of very bad football through those years. I should

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