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Santa Marina! Buccs Kickoff Return Takes Them Off Dubious List

Posted: Dec 16th 2007 11:31PM by Sportz Assassin (author feed)
Filed under: Buccaneers, NFC South, Mets, Tampa Bay

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With Tampa Bay's Michael Spurlock returning the first ever kickoff return for a touchdown in Buccaneers' history, it takes them off of one of sport's dubious lists of 'never dones'. It was worth 32 years of the inability to do so just to hear the announcer yell SANTA MARIA!

Now the weirdest stat is the fact that no New York Mets pitcher has ever pitched a no-hitter in the 46 years the franchise has been inexistence (the Padres haven't gotten one in in their 39 year history). The Florida Marlins have been around 15 seasons and have four of them. Guys like Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, Doc Gooden, David Cone, Hideo Nomo and Al Leiter are all former Mets that have thrown no hitters elsewhere.

Another oddity is Clemson basketball is 0-52 lifetime against North Carolina in Chapel Hill. If you know any more of them, please leave them in the comments section.

Michael Spurlock Makes Buccaneers History

Posted: Dec 16th 2007 2:25PM by David J. Warner (author feed)
Filed under: Buccaneers, Falcons, NFC South, Atlanta, Tampa Bay

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Michael Spurlock just became the answer to an NFL trivia question.

For the first time in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 32-year history, Spurlock, a former quarterback at the University of Mississippi, returned a kickoff for a touchdown. He took the ball at his own 10 yard line, ran it up the middle at first, then bounced into the clear for his historic run. The Bucs returned 1,865 kickoffs before finally scoring on one.

Of course, Spurlock did this against the Atlanta Falcons, who may be playing with more fire today after that whole Bobby Petrino mess, but it's not stopping them from sucking. Chris Redman has completed only 2 of 9 passes, and his lone touchdown pass was to Ronde Barber, who is definitely not a Falcon. The Bucs also have a touchdown run from Earnest Graham and a 33-yard field goal from Matt Bryant for a 24-3 lead late in the second quarter.