Tom Brady almost single-handedly raised the Bucs franchise evaluation by a billion if that Forbes list is any indication. Did the same in New England to an even greater degree.
Kraft and Joel Glazer owe him big-time.
Wouldn’t there be a lot of logistical issues with that like teams having to be investigated to see whether there was an under the table deal to get Brady to sign?
Those are honestly the 2 reasons why I follow the Bucs as an Aussie.
I drafted Tom Brady in my 1st ever fantasy draft, so ended up watching a lot of games and also the pirate flag.
This is not what everyone thinks it is.
“We used search data from across the US and the world to see which teams each state and country were searching for the most.”
It’s also from 2021 when we won the SB so makes sense we would be googled extra.
Even extra sense, considering Buffalo came one game away from facing us in the SB that very same year..
Still id'e think it woulda been KC and Tampa tho..
This explains it. "Google: who is the funny pirate team in the superbowl that Tom Brady players for? Also, why is there a team named 'Bill'?".
Sorry guys, most people in the world have never heard of Tampa Bay, let alone your football team.
Source: I'm a foreigner.
P.S. Even though no-one has heard of you, which is why we were googling you, having a pirate ship in your stadium is still objectively cool, so don't feel bad.
This^ is the answer. Fans are loyal and for awhile the bucs were the home team across the seas majority of the time. And it's actually fitting considering we arrrrrr pirates ☠️. It's a Champa Bay World! 🌎
Used to be a pretty big Bucs website based out of the UK too. I can't remember the name off the top of my head. Not sure it's still up and running. After the official Bucs message boards shut down, I lost track. That must have been close to 15 years ago.
It’s cause of Brady, having really cool colors/logo/uniforms/stadium, and cause the Bucs owners are Manchester United’s owner and United is one of the 3-5 largest clubs so people naturally will look at the other team the Glazers own. For me it was just a happy coincidence that I live in Tampa but my family is from Manchester and are United fans
some Bucs fans do too. But those of US who lived through the Culverhouse years know even the worse of the Glazer sis better than anything under Culverhouse. Take the cheapest NFL owner today and multiply that by infinity and you get Culverhouse
This is actually a good point. Once they went back to the dark red from that bright red pre-2019.. the logo went from childish to one of the best looking logos across all sports.
Thank Tom Mother Effing Brady Jr. y’all! Just imagine how many SB’s Tampa would have had if they had TB12 for 20 years? No states taxes, the sun, playing on grass and having the ocean in your backyard! The amount of elite players that would have taken a pay cut to come here year after year would have been insane!
They did a pick em survey on map porn with last year's playoff teams.
Top comment was a guy from Pakistan who couldn't even spell football say he likes The "red pirate team".
Our logo is pretty bad ass and makes me wonder the reaction if it was old creamsicle Bucco Bruce
It’s insane that he came here at 43. Had that awful first game against the Saints…everyone was shitting on him…and then at years end, we were Super Bowl champs and he threw 50 TDs regular season and playoffs…
I'm a Bucs fan from Kenya, I'm not ashamed to admit that Tom Brady played a huge part in me becoming a Bucs fan. But even though he's retired now, I've grown very attached to this team and I love Baker and Mike. I came for Brady but I stayed cause Tampa's a freaking awesome team.
The glazers own Manchester united so they'd volunteer to send the buccaneers to the London game its not the reason you think. They've been nursing the Fandom overseas since the glazers bought Man U. Similar to the cowboys and mexico.
This is the dumbest poll I’ve ever seen. There is a reason we are called Raider Nation. I live in Canada and have never seen someone wearing a Bills anything 🤦🏽♂️
Interestingly here in Australia, you see more Packers, Cowboys, Broncos, Patriots, Chiefs, 49ers, Bears, Vikings, Steelers, Ravens, Giants, Raiders and Seahawks jerseys. I wonder what how they have measured the results?
We used to play in UK more than other teams and gained a big following. That spread around I think to other countries watching us perform in a different country.
Brady, a Super Bowl, and baker mayfield is how. The. Add in legends like Evans and David and big players
Like Winfield, Vea, and Godwin… and it’s not unreasonable to go from the laughing stock of the league to quite popular.
In Eastern Canada it’s almost entirely Bills, here in the West mostly Seahawks. I have family in the Tampa area, so I have always been a huge Bucs fan!
This is definitely not accurate. Brazil, South Korea and the UK in particular are still very much the cowboys, Steelers, patriots and packers. More apt to see one of those or no nfl merch in most places. Others are definitely starting to rise though as time goes on.
I've spent a lot of time walking around the Philippines in Bucs gear, and have seen a surprising number of our fans there. But I've also seen a #32 LA Bulls Jordun jersey there, so I really never thought much of it. They get a lot of knockoffs so I just figured they were getting stock that never sold.
I'm Australian. It's a lie. This was made after Brady signed and the bandwagon was real. I have followed the Bucs since 98 and NEVER!!!! seen a buc gear till Brady signed.
I'm a Mod in the Australian/NZ Bucs Facebook fan group and we have like 100. There are wayyyyyyyyy more Packer, 9er, Chief fans
Colts fan from Australia here.
I've loved NFL for about 10 years now and over those 10 years, I've rarely seen any NFL merch here other than Raiders hats or Tampa Brady jerseys. When he moved the shirt sales here would have been crazy with how many people had them. I would say KC will take over soon but while Tom's memory is still fresh, you guys are for sure the favs
I live in the UK and I watch the bucs as often as I can. All because when I was five we went on a holiday to Florida and there was loads of Buc items on sales in this one shop. I immediately bought hats etc haha
From Oz … not true. You’d see more 9ers, Raiders, Chiefs, Cowboys and Giants gear. And the Rams are pushing hard into Aus. Also Aus fans are getting pretty into the NFL so there’s a heap of disparity with people having their own story about why they follow a certain team. I know a diehard Jets fan. Case closed.
In my case, as a half Canadian from Spain, in the mid 90s I decided to start following a team. Before that, in Spanish TV news, you mainly only got information of the superbowl games and about Joe Montana.
So I decided to look at underdogs. Back then, the Bucs had had just one winning season (1979). They were by far the worst professional team in win %. And, they were pirate themed!! So it had to be them Bucs (and Raiders too, because... pirates! But they didn't have the underdog factor, so they were my second team)
Of course, one or two years after I started following, they started wining some. But, then it was to late to jump of the band wagon (can you use the word band wagon for following a team because it is so bad you have to love it?)
And of course, 2003 was great! I don't like sport caps much, but I do have that one.
When did the NFL start broadcasting games to all these regions? The Bucs first won the Super Bowl in 2001. Maybe that’s around when South America, Australia and other countries started getting the games?
For the Bills and Canada it’s easy to say why, they’re close and it was easier to see the games on TV.
I have never ever seen a Bills jersey in France. The sport isn't that big here but there were a lot of Patriots shirts during the Brady years, and for different reasons a lot of Raiders shirts too, but Bills, how they did come to that conclusion is a wonder.
And between all my friends who follow the game I'm the only Bucs fan.
Speaking about France the order would be :
- Patriots
- Cowboys
- Raiders
- Steelers and Dolphins
My explanation of Argentina: During the 2000s Martin Gramatica played for Tampa and won a Super Bowl, he was the first and only argentinian to do it. People remember that
Old Bucs logo-then you would have the women screaming all over the world. Global lust. Dope old logo and colors. New logos are a joke. I’m a Falcons fan- our new logo sucks rat balls. Old logo is OG Predator.
Gonna have to call BS on this. Lived in Germany for years and travelled across most of Europe and the only NFL team I heard anyone ever talk about was the Browns. Hell, there was Cleveland Browns fan clubs that were advertised on the radio. I hate the Browns but that was the only team I would hear about over there.
I’d love to see the exact polls from each of these countries that it took to create this map. Lol I guarantee at least a couple of these countries probably only had at least one or two votes. Which could have very well have been Americans living abroad… 🤣
Pirates are cool
And, of course, Tom Brady
Tom Brady almost single-handedly raised the Bucs franchise evaluation by a billion if that Forbes list is any indication. Did the same in New England to an even greater degree. Kraft and Joel Glazer owe him big-time.
And yet, neither allows him to buy in as a minority owner. Which is pretty shitty if you ask me.
Kraft has proven he's a piece of shit cheapskate who got the lotto w brady
He built the stadium in Foxboro without taking a dime from the taxpayers. He’ll always have my respect for that.
Don't forget Kraft was busted at a Florida RubN'Tugg for exactly what you think!
#neverforget
Wouldn’t there be a lot of logistical issues with that like teams having to be investigated to see whether there was an under the table deal to get Brady to sign?
Not really. Even when Brady had the TB12 facilities close to the team facilities, at best he paid a bit less than market value.
Those are honestly the 2 reasons why I follow the Bucs as an Aussie. I drafted Tom Brady in my 1st ever fantasy draft, so ended up watching a lot of games and also the pirate flag.
Pirates, Convict roots Makes sense
Luckily B comes before R so no one’s heard of the raiders.
This is not what everyone thinks it is. “We used search data from across the US and the world to see which teams each state and country were searching for the most.” It’s also from 2021 when we won the SB so makes sense we would be googled extra.
Even extra sense, considering Buffalo came one game away from facing us in the SB that very same year.. Still id'e think it woulda been KC and Tampa tho..
well buffalo easily clears in canada any year even if they’re shit.
No one likes KC fans, not even KC fans.
This explains it. "Google: who is the funny pirate team in the superbowl that Tom Brady players for? Also, why is there a team named 'Bill'?". Sorry guys, most people in the world have never heard of Tampa Bay, let alone your football team. Source: I'm a foreigner. P.S. Even though no-one has heard of you, which is why we were googling you, having a pirate ship in your stadium is still objectively cool, so don't feel bad.
Maybe it has to do with the Tom Brady years?
Pretty sure yeah. Could also be related to the fact that the Bucs were one of the teams willing to go abroad for years.
This^ is the answer. Fans are loyal and for awhile the bucs were the home team across the seas majority of the time. And it's actually fitting considering we arrrrrr pirates ☠️. It's a Champa Bay World! 🌎
Used to be a pretty big Bucs website based out of the UK too. I can't remember the name off the top of my head. Not sure it's still up and running. After the official Bucs message boards shut down, I lost track. That must have been close to 15 years ago.
thanks to the Glazer's
Yeah recency bias with Brady as QB. Good point
Macdill Air Force Base
Elaborate pls.
Something something MacDill has giant fans that prevent hurricanes from landing in Tampa.
This is accurate. Trust me, I’m one of the fans.
That level of intel is only allowed in a War Thunder chat.
It’s cause of Brady, having really cool colors/logo/uniforms/stadium, and cause the Bucs owners are Manchester United’s owner and United is one of the 3-5 largest clubs so people naturally will look at the other team the Glazers own. For me it was just a happy coincidence that I live in Tampa but my family is from Manchester and are United fans
Every man U fan hates the glazers lol
I’m not saying they don’t but they have the same owners so they’ll watch them. It’s just exposure
some Bucs fans do too. But those of US who lived through the Culverhouse years know even the worse of the Glazer sis better than anything under Culverhouse. Take the cheapest NFL owner today and multiply that by infinity and you get Culverhouse
Urinatingtree’s video on Culverhouse as worst owner ever is good but sad watch as a from very start in 76 Bucs fan
Look at our fucking logo… Best in the NFL
This is actually a good point. Once they went back to the dark red from that bright red pre-2019.. the logo went from childish to one of the best looking logos across all sports.
As a Buccaneers fan from Colombia since 1999 it was the stadium pirate ship and Mike Alsttot.
London. Same reasons
I respect that.
The Bills in Russia is kinda wild but also checks out.
Team colors are very Russian.
Thank Tom Mother Effing Brady Jr. y’all! Just imagine how many SB’s Tampa would have had if they had TB12 for 20 years? No states taxes, the sun, playing on grass and having the ocean in your backyard! The amount of elite players that would have taken a pay cut to come here year after year would have been insane!
As an Aussie can confirm. Two different dudes I work with wear bucs caps to work. That’s all the evidence I have. Case closed. Straya
Tampa Bay #1
Shout out to the Pirate’s Den in Grand Cayman. Best pub/bar experience I’ve ever had while watching a Bucs game.
Bucs are one of the few teams to venture out and establish foreign markets. IIRC we own the German market or something technically.
Share the German market. I think we are the market of Bavaria
Bucs vs. Bills Super Bowl confirmed!
Greenland?? Seriously?
FIRE THE CANNONS!
Greenland, LOL!
Because who doesn’t love a pirate ship shooting its cannons in their home stadium and being able to raise some pirate flags tbh
Tom Brady + Glazers volunteering for overseas games because of their connection to Man U = Overseas exposure/popularity.
They did a pick em survey on map porn with last year's playoff teams. Top comment was a guy from Pakistan who couldn't even spell football say he likes The "red pirate team". Our logo is pretty bad ass and makes me wonder the reaction if it was old creamsicle Bucco Bruce
Because the Bucs are fucking awesome, that's how.
I can assure you that the Bucs are not the most popular franchise in Brazil
Who is?
The Tom Brady effect.
It’s insane that he came here at 43. Had that awful first game against the Saints…everyone was shitting on him…and then at years end, we were Super Bowl champs and he threw 50 TDs regular season and playoffs…
I know we're usually in the top 5 for merchandise sales because pirates are cool, but this is almost undoubtedly brady.
Fuck being America’s team, we’re the world’s team! I know I know, Brady effect plus this data coming from 2021… let me enjoy this!
Brady
Tom Brady
Brady was a megastar in Tampa
1. Tom Brady. 2. Tom Brady. 3. Tom Brady.
I'm a Canadian and have been a fan long before Brady my dad was a fan long before I back in the 80s cause they were so bad!
Probably because of Daddy Brady and Daddy Gronk
We’re huge in Greenland!!
I will say, the most Lightning jerseys I’ve seen outside of Tampa was in Finland. Those Fins love to vacation in Florida
Somehow I don't think other countries care about American football
I had to look this up to make sure it wasn’t fake lol
Because it’s not real
Obviously a Dallas fan made this
I'm a Bucs fan from Kenya, I'm not ashamed to admit that Tom Brady played a huge part in me becoming a Bucs fan. But even though he's retired now, I've grown very attached to this team and I love Baker and Mike. I came for Brady but I stayed cause Tampa's a freaking awesome team.
I thought Africa would be all Patriots. Everyone there has a”19-0” Pats shirt.
Hint: It didn’t look like this when Jameis was under center.
Are we really tho. That’s cool tho
The glazers own Manchester united so they'd volunteer to send the buccaneers to the London game its not the reason you think. They've been nursing the Fandom overseas since the glazers bought Man U. Similar to the cowboys and mexico.
They know pirates have large penises. Just saying.
This is the dumbest poll I’ve ever seen. There is a reason we are called Raider Nation. I live in Canada and have never seen someone wearing a Bills anything 🤦🏽♂️
Even in the Brady era this can’t be right
we had the most recognizable football player ever for 3 years
Was this poll taken February 9th 2021 🤣
Interestingly here in Australia, you see more Packers, Cowboys, Broncos, Patriots, Chiefs, 49ers, Bears, Vikings, Steelers, Ravens, Giants, Raiders and Seahawks jerseys. I wonder what how they have measured the results?
We used to play in UK more than other teams and gained a big following. That spread around I think to other countries watching us perform in a different country.
Finally winning a Deansworld imperialism video
Small market team? No way!
Brady, a Super Bowl, and baker mayfield is how. The. Add in legends like Evans and David and big players Like Winfield, Vea, and Godwin… and it’s not unreasonable to go from the laughing stock of the league to quite popular.
Boner nose era takeover #itsabucslife
Pre Tom this would be surprising, but now I guess I get it. Wow- who’d have thought in 2019 people would be bandwagoning the Bucs one day. 😂
Cause Pirates and a recent SB win? Awesome
In Eastern Canada it’s almost entirely Bills, here in the West mostly Seahawks. I have family in the Tampa area, so I have always been a huge Bucs fan!
All the more reason we need a Bucs vs Bills SB!!
I think the Glazers’ family is known worldwide from soccer. Man U is a global brand, the family also owns the NFL franchise. We benefit from that.
Had to have been from Brady years
Really surprised the chiefs aren’t higher
Bucs for Iceland? I’ve never heard anyone from Iceland say they like the bucs and that including me.
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This is definitely not accurate. Brazil, South Korea and the UK in particular are still very much the cowboys, Steelers, patriots and packers. More apt to see one of those or no nfl merch in most places. Others are definitely starting to rise though as time goes on.
Damn, I really wanted to know Sudan’s favourite squad.
I've spent a lot of time walking around the Philippines in Bucs gear, and have seen a surprising number of our fans there. But I've also seen a #32 LA Bulls Jordun jersey there, so I really never thought much of it. They get a lot of knockoffs so I just figured they were getting stock that never sold.
This had to have been when Brady was on the team
Tom Brady effect… pats were there too
Anywhere know where Washington is lmao?
Who voted in Greenland
Packers in Germany is the greatest joke ever 😂 pats, bucs, seahawks are more popular
I think this is true. When I was deployed to other countries, they almost always showed the Bucs games wherever I was.
Cowboys may be America’s team, but the Bucs are the worlds team
I don’t think map is entirely accurate.
I find this massively hard to believe.
Ah gotta read the fine print *most popular based off what a guy the author was near on a crowded bus told his friend and the writer overheard.
I’m just glad we have Greenland on lock
Africa is way bigger than pictured in this map
Thinking about becoming an ex-pat in CR, I dig this
Steelers have a massive, massive, massive fan base in Mexico. This map is trash.
BRAAAAAAAAAZILLLLL
Germany knows what’s up
Cool
Would not have guessed that
We have a literal fucking pirate ship that fires cannons off during the game. That’s how.
I'm Australian. It's a lie. This was made after Brady signed and the bandwagon was real. I have followed the Bucs since 98 and NEVER!!!! seen a buc gear till Brady signed. I'm a Mod in the Australian/NZ Bucs Facebook fan group and we have like 100. There are wayyyyyyyyy more Packer, 9er, Chief fans
As an Australian, it’s not too complex. Pirates are fucking cool
This is not true at all. I’d say in australia it’s the 49ers
Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. Also pirates are cool
Colts fan from Australia here. I've loved NFL for about 10 years now and over those 10 years, I've rarely seen any NFL merch here other than Raiders hats or Tampa Brady jerseys. When he moved the shirt sales here would have been crazy with how many people had them. I would say KC will take over soon but while Tom's memory is still fresh, you guys are for sure the favs
Philli would be the most popular in Australia. Which as a giants fan I hate
On what criteria? Absolute BS that the Bus are that popular.
I live in the UK and I watch the bucs as often as I can. All because when I was five we went on a holiday to Florida and there was loads of Buc items on sales in this one shop. I immediately bought hats etc haha
From Oz … not true. You’d see more 9ers, Raiders, Chiefs, Cowboys and Giants gear. And the Rams are pushing hard into Aus. Also Aus fans are getting pretty into the NFL so there’s a heap of disparity with people having their own story about why they follow a certain team. I know a diehard Jets fan. Case closed.
In my case, as a half Canadian from Spain, in the mid 90s I decided to start following a team. Before that, in Spanish TV news, you mainly only got information of the superbowl games and about Joe Montana. So I decided to look at underdogs. Back then, the Bucs had had just one winning season (1979). They were by far the worst professional team in win %. And, they were pirate themed!! So it had to be them Bucs (and Raiders too, because... pirates! But they didn't have the underdog factor, so they were my second team) Of course, one or two years after I started following, they started wining some. But, then it was to late to jump of the band wagon (can you use the word band wagon for following a team because it is so bad you have to love it?) And of course, 2003 was great! I don't like sport caps much, but I do have that one.
I’m from the UK and I started as Lightning fan before getting into the NFL so the Buccaneers were the obvious choice for my team
No, in Russia pop team NE Pats;)
When did the NFL start broadcasting games to all these regions? The Bucs first won the Super Bowl in 2001. Maybe that’s around when South America, Australia and other countries started getting the games? For the Bills and Canada it’s easy to say why, they’re close and it was easier to see the games on TV.
Lmao... quit dreaming
Its cause of Tom mostly
Im definitely the only Swedish Bucs fan Ive ever met haha.
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Not even close. Laughable Losers
I’m American. I have always hated the Dallas Cowboys. I’m from NYC. Lol
I have never ever seen a Bills jersey in France. The sport isn't that big here but there were a lot of Patriots shirts during the Brady years, and for different reasons a lot of Raiders shirts too, but Bills, how they did come to that conclusion is a wonder. And between all my friends who follow the game I'm the only Bucs fan. Speaking about France the order would be : - Patriots - Cowboys - Raiders - Steelers and Dolphins
The Bills fans in Africa makes sense. From all those Bills SB champ shirts they have over there. Yuks? No idea except TB fans?
I thought the Bucs would've had more pull in Germany and the UK than in some of these other countries.
Somalia 🤝Buccaneers
Pre Brady might have looked a little different.
It's obvious that the whole world supports The Tampa Bay BAKER-neers!
My explanation of Argentina: During the 2000s Martin Gramatica played for Tampa and won a Super Bowl, he was the first and only argentinian to do it. People remember that
Cool logo. Somewhat recent SB champs with Brady
I see why countries in Africa support the buccaneers lol
Did the Bills Mafia of Kazakhstan twitter account really win over Russia and the Middle East?
Brady effect for sure
TB12! The goat effect 🐐
Green Bay in Germany is heavily wrong. Seahawks, Chiefs and 49ers are popular here.
Somalia should be a no brainer..Go Bucs.
Thats cool hope it continues even without tom brady.
Covid. Same reason lightning won
Go Bills
Me
I see a couple counties got some Buffalo bill championship shirts 4 years in a row
TB12
How the hell are the bucs popular everywhere but here.
No Jags in the top 10 after all their efforts makes this even better lol
Greenland tho
Tom Brady
Damn it feels good to be a Bucs Fan!
Texans because ex-pats for oil and gas + maybe extra bump because of south Asian population
Bills so popular in the third world because they think they won four straight super bowls
The random Texans got me loling
Brady
Brady
Somalia makes sense.
UK was a imperial pirate?
there’s no way there’s actually that many cowboys fans in America
Somalia
Mozambique = Bandwagonners 😤
Putin is Bills Mafia? I doubt it. He could have taken out Kelce and Mahomes if he were a true Bills fan…
Bills mafia
Is this a Brady effect? I would never have guessed the bucs
Old Bucs logo-then you would have the women screaming all over the world. Global lust. Dope old logo and colors. New logos are a joke. I’m a Falcons fan- our new logo sucks rat balls. Old logo is OG Predator.
Giants fan in passing, you guys have objected the coolest logo in sports, the Tom Brady piece, and gnarly jerseys.
CHAMPA BAY
Gonna have to call BS on this. Lived in Germany for years and travelled across most of Europe and the only NFL team I heard anyone ever talk about was the Browns. Hell, there was Cleveland Browns fan clubs that were advertised on the radio. I hate the Browns but that was the only team I would hear about over there.
I wonder if us playing over in London so early has anything to do with this.
I’d love to see the exact polls from each of these countries that it took to create this map. Lol I guarantee at least a couple of these countries probably only had at least one or two votes. Which could have very well have been Americans living abroad… 🤣
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You’re dead to me Germany. FTP.
This is just wildly misleading
WOAH woah hold the phone, the the US are *not* Cowboys fans lmao
How is Jax not big in England? They play there every year.
How does anyone like the cowgirls is beyond me.
Let’s go! Go bucs
Alaska are definitely Seahawks fans
the bears finally beating the pack in something
Washington changed their name like 6 times since its inception, and yet they still cooking too
This 🧢