The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, commonly known as the Bucs, are a professional football team from Tampa, Florida. The team plays in the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team first joined the NFL in 1976 when the league was expanding along with another team called the Seattle Seahawks. The team is presently owned by Malcolm Glazer and its head coach is Jon Gruden. The Buccaneers lost their first 26 games since entering the league in 1976. They then had a brief winning spree in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but then lost in the next fourteen consecutive seasons.