Tampa Bay Rays fans support their team.
Local Color: Tampa Bay Sports
“In baseball, what is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game. There is no reason why the spectators should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability.”???
?—George Bernard Shaw
?—George Bernard Shaw
If you like sports, you’ll love Tampa Bay. Raymond James Stadium is home to Super Bowl XLIII and the NFL’s Bucs are past Super Bowl champs. The American League’s Rays are bound for the World Series while the NHL’s Lightning, past Stanley Cup winners, prove? that warm-weather Floridians will happily embrace a cold-weather pastime. In college football, the University of South Florida’s nationally-ranked Bulls have emerged as Beasts of the Big East while the University of Tampa Spartans routinely earn NCAA Division II championships in baseball, basketball, volleyball, soccer and golf. The list goes on, but you get the idea. In Tampa Bay, there’s a sport for every fan and a fan for every sport, as these decked-out Rays fans demonstrate.