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TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
SOUTH DIVISION

GENERAL

Stadium: Raymond James Stadium
4201 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa, FL 33607
Capacity: 65,908
Surface: Grass
Built: 1998 / $169 M USD
Head office: One Buccaneer Place, Tampa, FL 33607
Phone: 813-870-2700
Fax:
Website: http://www.buccaneers.com/

Radio flagship: 620 WDAE-AM & 103.5 WFUS-FM
Television (Regional): FOX
Corporate partners/sponsors: Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Company, MasterCard, MillerCoors, Raymond James.
Mascot: Captain Fear
Established: 1976
Franchise ancestry: Expansion


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ATTENDANCE
2011-2012
Home Dates: 8
Home Attendance Average: 56,614
Home Attendance Drawing Capacity: 86.2%
Home Attendance Total: 396,300
Home Attendance Rank: click here for 2010-2011 rank

Team Marketing Report:
Average Ticket Cost & Fan Cost Index: click here
2010-'11 Estimated Gate Receipts: $45M USD


TAMPA BAY MARKET

MARKET SIZE

City Population: 325,800 (Tampa)
Metropolitan Area Population: 2,395,997 (Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater)
Greater Metro Area Population: 2,723,949 (Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater CMA)
City size ranking: #59 in US / #29 in NFL
Metro area size ranking: #21 in US / #19 in NFL
Greater Metro area size ranking: #19 in US / #22 in NFL
Designated Market Area (DMA): Tampa Bay-St. Petersburg-Sarasota: 1,822,160 TV homes / 1.592% of US
DMA ranking: #13 in US / #14 in NFL
Source: Nielsen 2008, US Census Bureau 2005 and 2007

FRANCHISE FINANCIALS

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OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Owner: Malcolm Glazer
Acquisition date/price: 1995 / $192M USD
General Manager: Bruce Allen
Head Coach: Jon Gruden
Stadium: Public / owned and operated by County of Hillsborough
Concessions: Levy Restaurants

MARKET ECONOMICS

Economic Description: Port city; service, retail, finance, insurance, real estate.
Major companies: Major companies (Fortune 1000) – OSI Restaurant Partners (parent company of Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill, Carrabba’s Italian Grill), Wellcare Health Plans, TECO energy, Walter Industries, Raymond James Financial.
City per capita income (ranking): $26,522 USD (#6 NFL)
Metro area per capita income (ranking): $36,898 (#104 US / #29 NFL)
State per capita income (ranking): $36,720 (#21 US / tied #16 NFL)

MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS

Ethnicity (City of Tampa): Race – White 46.22%, Black 26.07%, Asian-American 2.15%, Other 8%; Hispanic of any race: 19.29%.
Language: 77.43% English; 17.76% Spanish; 0.63% French; 0.56% Italian.
Median Age: 34.77 years.
Political Leadership: Mayor of Tampa – Pam Iorio (Democrat); Governor of Florida – Charlie Crist (R); U.S. Senators – Bill Nelson (D), Mel Martinez (R); U.S. Representatives – 14 Republican, 11 Democrat: Jeff Miller (R), Allen Boyd (D), Corrine Brown (D), Ander Crenshaw (R ), Ginny Brown-Waite (R), Cliff Stearns (R ), John L. Mica (R), Alan Grayson (D), Gus Bilirakis (R), Bill Young (R), Katherine Castor (D), Adam H. Putnam (R), Vern Buchanan (R ), Connie Mack, IV (R), Bill Posey (D), Tom Rooney (R), Kendrick B. Meek (D), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R), Robert Wexler (D), Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D), Lincoln Dizz-Balart (R), Ron Klein (D), Alcee Hastings (D), Suzanne Kosmas (D), Mario Dizz-Balart (R).

Source: Team Marketing Report, ESPN.com, Forbes.com and TheSportMarket.biz