Back in the days of the Creamsicle-colored uniforms, when the Bucs played at The Big Sombrero, they played these two songs before the games:
Hey, hey, Tampa Bay, the Bucs know how to shine
Hey, hey, Tampa Bay, the Bucs know how to shine
If we're in trouble, that's okay, 'cause we can pull it out
Because we know we're on the top
When we stand up, stand up and shout
Hey, hey, Tampa Bay, the Bucs know how to shine
Hey, hey, Tampa Bay, the Bucs know how to shine
Give a cheer for the Buccaneers (Go Bucs)
Give a cheer for the Buccaneers (Go Bucs)
(Repeat and fade)
Hey, hey, hey, we're the Buccaneers
Ho, ho, ho, we're the Buccaneers
Offense, defense, now we're here to say
Make the Packers walk the plank
Throw 'em in Tampa Bay, hey
The second song came in versions for every other NFL team, although I don't think it survived long enough for them to make versions for the Jaguars or the Panthers, let alone the Titans. While they had the broadcasting rights for the Bucs, Top 40 radio station WRBQ also played these songs during the football season as a regular part of their Friday afternoons at 5:00 block, along with "Take This Job and Shove It" and other similar songs.
During the game, however, the songs were a little different:
It's a good time for the great taste
It's a good time for the great taste
It's a good time for the great taste…
Coke is it
The biggest taste you've ever found
Coke is it
The one that never lets you down…
At Eastern, we earn our wings every day
Tampa Stadium didn't have a permanent Jumbotron instant replay screen until Super Bowl XXV in 1991, so the advertisements played in the stadium during TV timeouts consisted of a commercial jingle over the PA system while the logo bounced around on the dot matrix scoreboard in the north end zone. Nevertheless, that was still more memorable than the highly mediocre teams the Bucs were putting on the field in the mid-1980s. I can't remember anything Steve DeBerg did with the Bucs, and all I remember of Vinny Testaverde's Bucs career is approximately 600 interceptions, but I can vividly recall that the Hurricane Restaurant's musical selection was Blondie's "The Tide Is High."
I also remember hearing a lot of fourth quarters on the radio on the drive home, because the Bucs were way behind and my father wanted to beat the traffic. There were never any spectacular comebacks.
Anyway, in the recent years of the red and pewter uniforms, at Raymond James Stadium, the Bucs have taken to playing the song from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World ("Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)"), which makes so much sense, if it were any other team, they would have paid Disney the royalties and started playing it a long time ago.