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Tampa Bay Buccaneers were the champs of the NFL.
It was the team’s first season with fiery head coach
Jon Gruden, and the Bucs had visions of multiple Lombardi trophies lining the cabinets. Long-suffering fans were ecstatic and ready to keep the pirate ship at Raymond James Stadium well-stocked with cannon fodder to celebrate their team’s triumphs.
However, the past 18 seasons in Tampa have gone over about as well as news of a Nickelback world tour.
It’s been a long drought of irrelevance coupled with bad coaching the Bucs hadn’t even sniffed the playoffs since 2007. Until this season’s arrival of a certain quarterback with more rings than one hand can hold.
It’s official: the Kansas City Chiefs will be playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 55th Super Bowl in Florida.
While there won’t be many Jews on the field, there will be at least one prominent Jewish family keeping a close eye from the stands – the Glazer family who have owned the Buccaneers since the mid-1990s.
Here’s a few things to know about the sports and real estate moguls:
They’re descendants of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants
The Glazer’s patriarch, Malcolm Glazer, was the fifth of seven children of Jewish immigrants, Abraham and Hannah Glazer. He was born in 1928 in Rochester, New York, where his parents had moved after immigrating to the U.S. from Lithuania.
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A great football club’s fall from grace offers a cautionary tale for the U.S.
Predicting what post-Trump America might look like is a difficult task. We don’t even know if we can call it the “post-Trump era” because we still don’t know whether President Donald Trump will stick around. Will he simply retreat back up his golden elevator and live out his days in Trump Tower, like Saruman? Or disappear into his showy, sultry, sticky, soon-to-be swamp at Mar-a-Lago, like Shrek? Alternatively, becoming embroiled in legal trouble after leaving office, could fuel the sense of martyrdom that might motivate him to buy a television station like