In 2000, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were coming off a dramatic run to the 1999 NFC Championship Game in St. Louis and a near-miss at the franchise's first-ever Super Bowl appearance. The Buccaneers had the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year, Warren Sapp, anchoring what was developing into one of the best defenses in league history and an offense led by the Thunder & Lightning duo of Mike Alstott and Warrick Dunn. Tampa Bay had Super Bowl aspirations in 2000, and their eyes on a bit of NFL history.

See, Super Bowl XXXV was set to be contested at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, the Buccaneers' home field. The NFL had been staging Super Bowls since 1966, moving it from city to city year after year, and to that point no team had ever played a championship game in their own home stadium,

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