sorry, TB Bucs fans, but your team is turning into the Raiders,

and not in a good way:

The wayward Bucs
A Times Editorial
Published April 1, 2004

Somebody needs to pull aside Tampa Bay Bucs coach Jon Gruden and new general manager Bruce Allen and let them know they're not in Oakland anymore.

Gruden and Allen both came to the Bucs by way of the Oakland Raiders, whose owner, Al Davis, has long cultivated a reputation for collecting felons, thugs and miscreants that most other teams wouldn't touch. Now Gruden and Allen seem intent on turning Tampa Bay into Oakland east.

The newest Buc is defensive tackle Darrell Russell, a former Raider who has been suspended twice by the NFL for violations of the league's drug policies. While serving a one-year suspension, Russell was arrested on charges that he drugged a female acquaintance and videotaped her as she was sexually assaulted by two of his friends, both of whom had long criminal records. More than 25 felony counts against Russell and the two men eventually were dropped.

So how do the Bucs justify Russell's signing? "Bill Clinton did a lot worse things than Darrell Russell," said Allen, whose brother is a Republican U.S. senator from Virginia.
MORE>>>http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2004/04/01/Opinion/The_wayward_Bucs.shtml

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the GM is a CHA:

Allen's comment on Clinton called irresponsible
Bucs GM's comparison to Darrell Russell draws fire of State Rep. Bob Henriquez, D-Tampa.
By RICK STROUD, Times Staff Writer
Published April 1, 2004

PALM BEACH - Looking fit, tan and relaxed, Jon Gruden sipped from a cup of coffee Wednesday morning during a media breakfast with NFC coaches at the league's annual meeting.

Meanwhile, criticism and controversy continue to brew for Gruden and general manager Bruce Allen, just 14 months removed from the Bucs' Super Bowl championship.

The latest to join the fray was State Rep. Bob Henriquez, D-Tampa, responding to comments Allen made regarding troubled defensive tackle Darrell Russell, signed to a one-year contract Tuesday.

Allen compared the problems faced by Russell, a two-time violator of the NFL's drug policy who faced charges as an accessory to rape, to those of former President Bill Clinton.

"Bill Clinton did a lot worse things than Darrell Russell," Allen said Tuesday. "But he won Florida twice and was our president. I know he did. He did worse things."

Henriquez called the comments "irresponsible."

MORE>>>http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2004/04/01/Bucs/Allen_s_comment_on_Cl.shtml

Chimpy was a druggie but he was selected. How bout that? :crazy:

Sounds like the guy is a rapist. But hey, consensual sex...rape....same thing to these guys, right?

But, since Allen attacked Clinton, I expect a token apology and a sweep under the rug. If he'd attacked Bush*, they'd be readying his cage at Gitmo.

:eyes:

Oh, I hope for your sake, Russell has gotten his act together.

but let him go when he was late to a practise in week 17. he's a moron.

Nothing like having the world by the short and curlies and screwing it up.

They actually signed Josh Bidwell.....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Easy on Bidwell.

Huizenga, Marino, Shula, & Co. are conservatives. :(