1976 Salad (This is the salad and appetizer as there will be tons of BBQ prepared) Its throwback week and we are going back in time to 1976 the inaugural season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Me and my now wife’s first game together was the first ever Bucs throwback game in 2009. Since this [...]

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OK Me Hearties, it once again seems like it’s been a month since our last tailgate party, but it’s now time for the next extraveganza! Fear not that out beloved Buccaneers are struggling on the field as our tailgates are always a sure fire winner and this one will be no exception. We have the [...]

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Shrimp Uggie This week we have the New Orleans Saints coming to Ray Jay. Thinking of this game I wanted to bring a unique NOLA flavor back to Tampa. Uglesich’s Restaurant and Bar in New Orleans, named this dish after the owner’s son who was nicknamed Uggie by the kids at school who couldn’t pronounce [...]

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Southern Indiana Whiskey Hot Ribs Monday Night Football is back in Tampa Bay and Chef Red has an interactive recipe this week. My recipe this week is my Southern Indiana Whiskey Hot Ribs. These ribs add moisture and flavor from the whiskey and get a little BITE from the hot sauce. This brings the best [...]

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“Ok let’s recap this past tailgate shall we? T’ key word be WET!! It was a very wet, muggy, muddy day t’ say t’ least, but did that dappen our grog? Hell No! I will steal somethin’ our very own Old School said that day, he said “We may not have as many people as [...]

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Smoked Falcon Legs For the second home game of the season we invite the Falcons back into Raymond James Stadium. This game will be the unveiling of Chef Red’s new toy which is a seventeen foot long, ten foot tall, dual axel mounted cast iron smoker. This smoker will handle about 70 racks of ribs [...]

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Ghost of Barry Honey Hot Wings The start of the 2011 has Chef Red all pumped up. This season me and Rino have quite a few surprises worked up for our fans and you will learn more in the weeks to come. For the first game of the season we take on the Detroit Lions [...]

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You guys who follow us on Twitter (@WhatTheBuc) may have noticed a few Tweets about a particular Blackening Seasoning. Well, the creator of this seasoning is my damn near lifelong friend, Jim Learish. Now to say Jim and I are competitive is like saying that Miami Hurricanes offer some *perks* to their players (sorry Em!). So when [...]

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Apple Pork Loin So our tailgate season is coming to an end (ugh).  I have had the best time this year and gotten to meet so many wonderful people.  Our tailgates are becoming a thing of lore, the kind of occasion one tells their kids about.  But wait folks we aren’t done just yet!  This [...]

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As always, the WTB?/BucsChat.com tailgate will be ridiculous. This week, the fine folks from TurboChill will be providing us some delicious beer cooled and served in their new, patent pending “jockey box”. Check out the video on their site to see what we are talking about or better yet, come to support the team and [...]

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