Sports
The "buccaneer" name is the namesake for the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Two shortened variations, "Bucs" and "Buccos", are also commonly used for both the American football team and MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)