C. W. Bill Young: “we are rightfully proud in the Tampa Bay area of our team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; and I want to thank the gentleman…”

“we are rightfully proud in the Tampa Bay area of our team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; and I want to thank the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis), my colleague from Tampa and my neighbor, for introducing this resolution calling attention to the tremendous success of the team. Also, Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to compliment both teams. I know we had the Raiders, their team and their coach, and we had the Buccaneers, our team and our coach. They gave America, and especially America's sports fans, a tremendous Sunday afternoon. It was exciting. It was an exciting time and the challenge was real, and the Buccaneers really came through; and as my friend, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Putnam), said, we had a dry season for quite a while, but we finally made it. In the few seconds that I have left, I wanted to make this comment, that since I have been in the Congress, many people have told me to quit talking so much about national defense because I have been here preaching about a strong national defense ever since I came here many years ago; but I think Jon Gruden and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers proved there ain't nothing like a good defense.”