View Full Version : Hugh Culverhouse: A Reign of Error


TMC
03-20-2022, 06:08 AM
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When you think of some of the worst owners (https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/5vb78l/who_is_the_worst_owner_your_team_has_ever_had/) in NFL history (https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/7cm7lr/past_or_present_whom_do_you_believe_is_the/), the usual suspects tend to pile up: George Preston Marshall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Preston_Marshall), Dan Snyder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Snyder), Mike Brown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Brown_(American_football_executive)), Bob Irsay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irsay), Art Modell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Modell), and a few others. In most cases, however, there tends to be a notoriously awful owner (https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/83ni8s/who_was_the_worst_owner_in_nfl_history/) that tends to slip through the cracks: This man's name is Hugh Culverhouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Culverhouse), and he was the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (https://nflmocks.com/2018/07/02/the-greatest-villain-in-the-history-of-all-32-nfl-teams/30/) from 1976 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_season)-1994 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_season). Throughout his control (https://urnow.richmond.edu/magazine/article/-/13977/how-to-fail-spectacularly.html), the Bucs (https://books.google.com/books?id=jvEq2yqiciAC&pg=PA198&dq=Hugh+Culverhouse+and+the+Tampa+Bay+Buccaneers:+How+a+Skinflint+Genius+with+a+...&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO3Li1t9T2AhVkleAKHX3RCekQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=Hugh%20Culverhouse%20and%20the%20Tampa%20Bay%20Buccaneers%3A%20How%20a%20Skinflint%20Genius%20with%20a%20...&f=false) were consistently one of the worst teams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt9t1PuTrp8) in football, with only a blip of success due to things unrelated to his efforts.

Every move he made (https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/43qb1c/who_was_the_worst_most_incompetent_nfl_owner_of/) was for the sake of the bottom line (https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/8sqmb2/the_bucs_first_owner_hugh_culverhouse_was/), yet he took pride in his love of controlling both his football team (https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/rhftmj/whos_the_worst_owner_not_based_on_morality_but/) and the league (https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1988-09-11-0070000195-story.html) itself. He combined the worst aspects (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1L5nY8qiYU) of sports ownership (https://www.quora.com/Who-do-you-think-is-the-worst-owner-in-the-NFL), and this description only scratches the surface of it. This video will show you the rest, in all of its horrific glory.

There are reasons why I consider him the worst owner in NFL history.