The Buccaneers’ Retired Jerseys

 

A CPA from Scarborough, Maine, Richard McCarthy leverages his education and wealth of experience in finance and accounting to inform his role as the CFO of Avery Investments, a commercial real estate investments company. Outside of his work, Richard McCarthy of Scarborough, Maine is a huge fan and a season ticket holder of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Buccaneers, or “Bucs,” are a professional football team that competes in the National Football League (NFL). The Bucs have produced some of the finest football players in the league. Some have been honored to have their jerseys retired by the Bucs.

Lee Roy Selmon was the Bucs’ first-ever draft pick and the team’s defensive lineman from its inaugural season in 1976 until 1984. Selmon earned some important league honors in his career. He was named to the All-Pro first- or second-team five times, appeared in the Pro Bowl for six consecutive years from 1980 to 1985, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995. The Bucs retired his jersey #63 on September 15, 1986.

Hall of Fame inductee Warren Sapp donned jersey #99 when he played for the Bucs in his first nine seasons. Sapp became an important fixture in the Bucs’ interior defense since his rookie year in 1995. Sapp has racked up 96.5 sacks in his 13-year career. He was named the Defensive Player of the Year in 1999 and belonged to an elite group of athletes to be enshrined into multiple All-Decade Teams (the 1990s and 2000s). The Bucs retired his jersey on November 11, 2013.

Selected by the Bucs in the 1995 draft, Derrick Brooks played as the Bucs’ linebacker from 1995 to 2008. Brooks never missed a game in his 14-year career and started in all 224 games. He was the league’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2002, named to the All-Pro six times, the All-NFC eight times, the All-Decade Team of the 2000s, and the Hall of Fame. The Bucs retired his jersey #55 on September 14, 2014.