When your peers can deliver one every 3 years on average what takes you 32 years to do for the first time...you are really slow, incompetent, unlucky or a combination thereof...
1864 previous tries in 497 games by 139 previous players toiling over 37,395 yards. Yup, no Tampa Bay Buc had ever returned a kickoff return to the house. Talk about a monkey on your back. More like a whole pack of them.
Till yesterday.
Micheal Spurlock finally did it.
Yes, that Micheal with a E before the A. Another statistical outlier. And forever a hero in this town.
Even the monkeys cheered.