Tampa Bay Buccaneers is a Floridian American football team. They were established in one of the later NFL franchise waves and by the 2020s grew into one of the most powerful clubs in the League. Their branding draws a lot from the pirate aesthetic, which made them into the public favorites.
Who owns Tampa Bay Buccaneers? The club belongs to the Glazer family. The current owner is Bryan Glazer, a rich entrepreneur.
History Logo
The Buccaneers were established in 1974 in Tampa, Florida. Both the name and other parts of their brand are inspired by the Pirate Golden Age, during which the buccaneers (anti-Spanish pirates) often used hideouts across the peninsula to quickly strike out into the silver fleets and scarper.
1976 – 1996
The initial logo displayed a face of a typical Southern bandit with a big plumed hat with wide rims, long hair, an earring, thin moustache and a dagger held between his teeth. Most details were either orange or red, but some were also white (such as the teeth or the dagger’s hilt).
1996 – 2013
In the 90s, they introduced a pirate flag as a new logo. It was a piece of red cloth with a white Jolly Roger (sabers crossed) in the middle. Prominently, they put an orange football right beneath the skull. Instead of the flagpole, there was an ordinary pirate saber with a grey blade and red hilt.
2013 – 2019
They made the colors paler in this new edition, as well as got rid of the excessive black lines all over the flag. On the saber, they pretty much just turned the hilt grey and colored the inner half of the blade white. And lastly, there was also a slight shade around the whole logo in this version.
2019 – today
In 2019, they made the palette darker again across the whole logo, which is largely the only addition they made then.
Helmet History
The team primarily used orange, red and white as the headwear colors since the inception. Initially, much of the surface was white, while the orange and red were reserved for the logo on the side, as well as the midline stripes and the face protection. Later, the orange became a dominant color, with the red logo on the side.
Uniform History
Much of their recent uniforms were orange, white and red, in various combinations. Orange is a dominant color: the jerseys are commonly colored this way and paired with white trousers. The reds are mostly alternative. This was the same for many prior combinations, but back then the orange was darker, on the border of brown at times.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Colors
RED
PANTONE: PMS 186 C
HEX COLOR: #D50A0A;
RGB: (213, 10, 10)
CMYK: (2, 100, 85, 6)
BAY ORANGE
PANTONE: PMS 151 C
HEX COLOR: #FF7900;
RGB: (255, 121, 0)
CMYK: (0, 60, 100, 0)
BLACK
PANTONE: PMS BLACK 7 C
HEX COLOR: #0A0A08;
RGB: (10, 10, 8)
CMYK: (38, 35, 33, 92)
GREY
PANTONE: PMS 5517 C
HEX COLOR: #B1BABF;
RGB: (177, 186, 191)
CMYK: (31, 20, 20, 0)
PEWTER
PANTONE: PMS 440 C
HEX COLOR: #34302B;
RGB: (52, 48, 43)
CMYK: (65, 62, 67, 62)
