Welcome to the Official Bulletin Board of the 2002 World Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers!

It's our hope that you find our BB a wonderful & entertaining place to visit. Please take the time to look around and navigate into the various Folders we offer for Discussions. Should you have any questions regarding policy, functionality, navigation, settings, or any other concern, please feel free to send a PM (Personal Message) to one of our Moderators (Mods) for the answers you require. Our Mods are here to help assist you and enforce our rules and regulations, and in most cases, they can offer you a response to your concerns in real time.

In addition to our Mods, we have some of the best veteran posters on any NFL BB right here, and their football & non-football opinions & and observations make for some very spirited, interesting & enlightening discussions throughout this BB. We would not hasten to call a few of our Vets "Football Experts". Don’t be afraid to ask them questions or jump right into one of their threads or posts.

While we are primarily a BB specifically designed and intended for Tampa Bay Buccaneer fans, we are proud to also be the Home to many fans of other teams from all over the NFL. We are genuinely proud of our reputation among NFL bulletin board visitors as being a "melting pot" for all NFL team fans. We're deeply honored to have so many visitors & regular members representing other NFL teams. Our Mod staff is committed to insuring that every member here is treated fairly and equitably, no matter what team you root for. To that end, we appreciate the fact that "talking smack" is part of what makes Football BBS fun. Smack is permitted, as long as it's not directed at any individual(s) nor made into malicious personal attacks. Please keep your smack within our posted rules, and related to football.

We have established certain rules, as we have members of all ages & a wide variety of diverse backgrounds visiting our BB from all over the Country & the World, most of whom share a mutual fondness for NFL Football, including we hope, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Our rules are based on being considerate of others opinions as well as the use of good judgment when posting your comments.

In the event you witness other members posting remarks or any action that you feel may be in violation of our posted BB rules, we urge you to report the specific post by simply clicking on the: "Report this post to a moderator" link at the bottom right corner of every posting. That report is kept completely confidential. We depend on our members for their valuable assistance in helping us be our eyes and ears in keeping this BB running smoothly.

Finally, we offer both football and non-football "Off Topic" Forums so as to create as much of an enjoyable & easily accessible experience as possible. The Team Discussion Folder is exclusively intended for NFL Football discussions only, while the Off Topic Folder is an "anything goes" forum. We only ask that you respect our rules and that you please respect the other members & visitors of this board.

Below is an explanation of our primary rules in no particular order of relevance:

Spamming & Flaming: Members posting identical thread titles or nearly identical concept threads, or continuous irrelevant threads within a short amount of time will be viewed as Flaming the board. Members promoting information or advertising from, or linked to, any form of commercial entities, will be viewed as Spamming.

Personal Insults & Harassment: Members are prohibited from posting deeply personal insults directed at other members, divulging personal information or images of other members without their consent, or any other deeply malicious attacks including harassment of other members from thread to thread.

Offensive Content: Members are prohibited from posting or linking content containing racial & religious slurs, ethnic slurs & jokes, sexual content, illegal content, hate groups, graphic or disturbing content, profanity, discussions about illegal drugs, joking about or making light of player injury, or any other offensive content whatsoever, whether used as an example to make a point or in a more direct and malicious manner.

Solicitation of Funds: Members are prohibited from soliciting for donations for foundations, charities, or any other organization.

Conduct: Members are prohibited from intentionally & consistently posting comments that either result in, or are designed to, inflame, provoke and incite continuos arguments and mean spirited debates. All content must be suitable for all ages. If you repost or quote content that is against the rules, you are similarly as guilty, and face the identical consequences as the member who originated it.

Bypassing The Censor: Members are prohibited from attempting to bypass the built-in sensor mechanism that automatically replaces profanity and other banned words & phrases with a series of asterisks. Bypassing is any action to thwart the intended function of the sensor, such as attempting to divulge the actual censored word or words by means of using other spellings, symbols, rhymes, or any facsimiles thereof.

Sig Image & Sig Line Restrictions:

EXACTLY 400 pixels in width, EXACTLY 70 pixels in height, no more than 33kb in file size. The borders of the image must be visible at all times.

Text Sig lines are not allowed.

Sports related sig pics are always acceptable. However, we are restricting content within sig pics that in any way promotes, mentions or links any website or group, as well as any content that is either a specific or a veiled mention/insult relating to any member, former member or group of members of this board.

To summarize: No "Zones", "Dens" or "Connections".

Sig Image Information: A lot of time was put into this site to get a professional and clean appearence. While funny and seemingly harmless using a 'spoof' or 'goofy' Sig pic detracts from the over-all flow of the forum and thwarts the hard work done to create an eye pleasing experience for all of our members.

The decision to allow users the ability to personalize there signatures with an image was a tough decision and was only approved because of it's ability to enrich the forum. If we do not maintain that standard, they will have to be disabled completely.

We have several VERY talented graphic designers and artists on this site who have offered and helped many members get a quality design that enhances the forum.

If you have a 'hand drawn' sig pic, or something that looks like a 4 year old designed it please contact someone on the board to help you. There are numerous threads about sig pics in the Graphics forum. One of our members will help you get a high quality sig pic.

We have the highest quality fans in the NFL and we want to maintain that we have the highest quality board as well!

Images & Text: Members are prohibited from posting any images, links, or posts that contain sexual content, graphic or disturbing content, racial hatred, profanity, gambling or wagering for monetary gain, any content that should not be viewed by children, discussions about illegally pirated NFL audio or video for sale or trade, or any other inappropriate or illegal content.

Team Discussions Forum Folder: To insure the continuity of great football only related discussions, we have initiated a strict rule pertaining to content within the Team Discussions Forum Folder: The Team Discussion Forum Folder is for discussions about NFL football only. College/Draft discussions will be restricted to the College/Draft Forum and are not permitted in the Team Discussions Folder under any circumstance.

Bi-Posting: Members are prohibited from using or registering more than one username. Multiple user names (Bi-Posting-ghosting-cloning) is not permitted. Members who continue to Bi-Post do so fully at their own risk, as we periodically “sweep” our registered user lists with software designed to delete such multiple accounts, and this software does not differentiate between primary and secondary usernames. Once a username is deleted/banned by our sweep software, it is absolutely unrecoverable.

Thread Titles: Members are prohibited from "calling out" or naming any BBS member in the thread title for the purposes of embarrassing or attempting to humiliate that member or members. Members posting in the Team Discussion Forum are prohibited from the practice of "selling a thread" which is the act of intentionally titling a thread with false or misleading information or fake "news headlines" simply to garner attention or member responses within the thread. If the thread is intended to be satirical, please place that within the thread, and not the thread title. Members are prohibited from the use of only abbreviations, symbols or numbers to title a thread.

Disciplinary Actions: Members who are deemed by the Admin or Mods to have broken the rules may be subject to a variety of disciplinary actions, as the Admin or Mods see fit depending upon the severity of the offense and the perceived intent of the offense, without advanced notice given, including but not limited to: Warnings, Temporary Suspensions, Deletions of Post Count, or Bannings, or any combination thereof. Members who are Suspended and attempt to access the BBS under a new username or account will be banned permanently.

In all cases above, the Admin & Mods will exclusively determine if any infractions were made, and to what degree. Modifications, changes & substitutions may be made without notice. The above primary rules are posted in addition to the BB rules mentioned during the sign-up process, yet other rules may apply. It is incumbent upon on all members to precisely follow all Mod directives in a timely fashion to avoid banning. Your membership here constitutes your full acceptance of all posted rules.