He Said The Buccaneers Signed Him. The Bucs Never Spoke to Him

During the middle of the 1976 NFL season, free agent quarterback Terry Hanratty declared himself to be signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and talked about how it was a done deal and how excited he was to be joining the team and playing for head coach John McKay. And that would be cool and all... if it wasn't for the fact that the Bucs never had any contact with the man and had no idea what he was talking about
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[@82dorrin]

He identified as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer!

[@Rockhound6165]

Fun Fact: As bad as the Bucs offense was in 1976, the 1977 offense was worse even though they won 2 games. That team was shut out 6 times including 4 times in 5 games, scored 10 or less points(including the shutouts) 11 times, and before scoring a whopping 33 points in their first victory over the Saints the Bucs had racked up a total of 53 points, 23 of which came in a game against the Seahawks so take away that game and in 11 of their first 12 games they scored a combined 30 points. 2 seasons later they were in the NFC Championship game. In total they scored 103 points in a 14 game season averaging just a shade over 7 PPG.

[@marquan1976]

26 seconds into this video, Trevor Lawrence has unfollowed JG9’s channel

[@brianchandler1966]

Terry Hanratty was a great college QB he helped Notre Dame to the 1966 national championship

[@marks875]

Another little-known story of that 42-0 thrashing the Steelers doled out to Tampa Bay that year was that the Bucs also signed a former prison inmate off the street to play defensive end. He had no knowledge of the playbook and hadn't seen the field since college, if I remember the story correctly. He had just recently been released and the Bucs needed depth that week, so they signed him and just told him to rush the QB every play. If I'm remembering this right, he recorded no sacks and no tackles and did next to nothing the rest of the year, after which he was released and never played in the NFL again.

[@pickles-_-4942]

I declare myself President of the World lol

[@miketemple7686]

Yeah, but is “everything set”?😂

[@danielhresko4900]

Sorry, you’re too late. Please look up a guy named David Morsilli. It’s a weird rabbit hole to go into…

[@barbaracaroll]

JG Hanratty was pretty good in college and in 1970-1971 the Steelers thought he would be their starter moving forward because Bradshaw was so bad in his first 2 years

[@Jason_Maier]

Of course, something like this would happen with the early Buccaneers. Wasn't Hugh Culverhouse even worse than Bill Bidwell, Mike Brown, or Bill Sullivan in terms of being cheap?

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

Horribly so. Urinating Tree made a video about Culverhouse which goes into his cheapness in great detail.

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

​@andrewpadaetz5549 and it's one of my favorite Tree videos

[@marcus813]

@@andrewpadaetz5549 Longtime Bucs fan. Tree's video is spot on. I'm thankful for Culverhouse founding the Bucs, but he had no idea how to run a top-flight pro sports franchise and turned fans off.

[@toddc3988]

​@@marcus813 Yeah ... Only good thing he did honestly.

[@marcus813]

You really need some Bucco Bruce helmets! I'm a longtime Buccaneers fan, but Hanratty joined the club a few years before I was born, so I wasn't aware of his stunt. The last thing my Bucs needed was more crappy QB play because they had enough of it from Steve Spurrier and Parnell Dickinson! I'm not surprised that Hanratty struggled against his old mates in Pittsburgh because the Bucs' offense struggled against defenses that didn't have defensive lines like the Steel Curtain.

[@interstate1335]

You’d be a great GM! You can make sure your team doesn’t get on dumb decisions.

[@chadwickwhite6107]

Terry Hanratty was DEFINITELY DROPPED on his HEAD 39.6 times as a BABY!!!!

[@carseye1219]

Even though the facility was relatively new, the turf at Three Rivers always looked awful to me. It had the washed-out look of a 1970 Ford Pinto's hood that was never garaged.

[@ianward3647]

imagine if he literally became the jags qb

[@EdBurke37]

Fake it till you make it?

[@EddieV19]

Almost believed you at the start 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wallydollarlive]

He got a concussion and saw the future 😂😂😭 poor fella

[@AndreAdams-j6n]

I think a good one you should consider was the worst ejection from a NFL game. Rams vs 49ers on Monday Night Football from 1989 when Charles Haley got ejected on one of the worst calls of all time. This was the John Taylor game.

[@Fireyninjadog]

I declare myself ceo of disney

[@miketemple7686]

I’m the new CEO of Amazon; “Everything is set”.

[@levidezern3190]

I wish you could declare Bezos bank account as yours

[@miketemple7686]

@@levidezern3190wait…that’s not part of the deal. WHAT THE HELL?

[@levidezern3190]

@@miketemple7686 it's not like bezos earned any his money,anyway

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Hanratty was great on the Steelers for the last few snaps of games already won. He took the final snaps in a playoff game & Super Bowl X. Best victory formation QB ever.

[@larryhand7219]

Hanratti was a great backup QB. This is a bad AI generated video.

[@mgb4692]

Tying your two most recent vids together (with a Jags connection), I'm quickly reminded of when Austin Seferian Jenkins announced he and Marqise Lee were signing with the Seahawks--must have been '19 offseason since ASJ and Lee were teammates in JAX the prev year. Needless to say neither went.

[@derekjtaylor]

I declare myself the winner of Friday’s MegaMillions drawing!

[@David.M._1979]

Hell I'll be playing linebacker for the cowboys next season

[@timothymaynard8017]

I declare….Bankruptcy!

[@miketemple7686]

Classic…Michael Scott.😂

[@lakers013]

Love this video. How did you find this? Love old school stories. Have you done Doug Williams career?

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Thanks! Love digging up newspaper archives and finding the weird and wacky things in NFL history. Don’t think I’ve done one on Williams yet, although I did a super long video on his first playoff win, that Eagles/Bucs game in 1979! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6XMnqChgZydbrcsi=XvokDmeWjo5JOXCY

[@Kingsized_Kevin]

I declare myself the WR1 for the Miami Dolphins.. As a Lions Fan since my youth, no one would fault me for being Young, Black, and Rich in Miami

[@architect011_3]

i JG9 would like to just play QB and spike the ball on every play and would declare with 39,6 rating is officially better than over 1/3 of the people who have ever playyed the position.

[@billmalone5050]

The Pittsburgh Steelers wen 1-13 in the 1969-70 NFL season.

[@Nitero_]

already drafted you in my keeper league, wishing you the best of luck. Can't be worse than my current roster.

[@119Agent]

I always find it funny when a sports’ “postseason” is mentioned long before there was an extended post season like there is now in almost every sport. Until 1967, there was exactly 1 post season game every year. Terry Hanratty joined the Steelers two years later.

[@JohnnyJackson746]

Good luck jaguargator. Trevor lawrence needs to worry about you taking the starting job.

[@randytracy1742]

Poor terry hanratty! Was he delusional about his joining the buccaneers in 1976? Looks like it! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@basher20]

He may have been caught in the sales technique of the "assumed close". You basically act like the customer has agreed until he starts to think he has. Like when the used car salesman starts talking about the extended warranty plans before you've made up your mind about the car.

[@ConleySmooge]

I can appreciate, as a Gator, you didnt try to say Steve Spurrier did some good things in Tampa. He did not. If you wanted to say he would return one day, and coach the Tampa Bay BANDITS. Of the USFL. That happened. Its okay to say it. Much better times than Buccaneer stuff . Any time around that one. They made the playoffs in '79, and won a playoff game, too. That was the only highlight in franchise history until the late 90s.

[@glennanderson9034]

Scared me there at first

[@tomdavey8723]

This is amazing material! What a weird situation!

[@professorwiggins3290]

This is one of the most remarkable examples of faking it til you make it that I have ever seen.

[@IAMGavinMitchell]

3 for 26 in a season is brutal.

[@dale6613]

I could have sworn I had a 1976 Topps card of him with Tampa Bay. I could be wrong though.

[@jamesbowman8138]

Pamela Andersen declared she was dating Lenny Kravitz

[@piggyroo100]

It’s HANratty.

[@SeahawkTalk]

For the love of god, do not let Jamal Adams see this video

[@chrissinclair4442]

There's been a few guys to do this when going to college.

[@jasonblake1759]

And here is what might have been Terry Hanratty’s final game as a Steeler…the last game ever played between a college all-star team vs the previous Super Bowl champ, in 1976. In this clip, he gets picked off by the college kids, only to be overshadowed by what’s got to be the most hellacious thunderstorm to ever occur at a pro or college football game. Well this game got called off in the 3rd quarter in what turned out to be the final game of this series. Crazy stuff! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJnPkH2gqNqsnpY&pp=ygUaMTk3NiBjb2xsZWdlIGFsbCBzdGFyIGdhbWU%3D

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

I was about to say "Bro gaslit himself" but then you got to the part where they signed him and now I'm like "Bro manifested a job."

[@Bandwithbrass]

Sub 6, 40 Yard dash.... so like 5 and a hafl? MINUTES!

[@joevanlear7566]

Upgrade in the Jags QB "looks department"!😂

[@chrisp679]

JG9 vs. Rich Eisen at the combine next year. Make it so.

[@guiseppe8032]

Terry Hanratty only lasted as long as he did because he was from nearby Butler, Pennsylvania and the fact that the Steelers other QB aside from Bradshaw--Joe Gilliam--struggled with substance abuse. Sad since Gilliam was arguably their best QB in those years--even Terry Bradshaw admitted as much.

[@jameskenyon918]

Good luck and do you have room for a 67 year old tight end?

[@stephenholloway6893]

I'll give him credit for determination for wanting the Bucs QB position too bad he failed at the position. Eventhough how he went about it was all wrong.

[@r3d5ive87]

Next time you’re going to say a guy sucks don’t show video of him dropping dimes and throwing tds.

[@klardfarkus3891]

Maybe they should have given him a chance

[@Eric-j4i]

Maybe the lie was coming from TB

[@bradleypietrzyk1618]

It was easy to prank call someone back then... There was no way to track calls.

[@Eric-j4i]

@@bradleypietrzyk1618 or to deny in a press conference if the boss would get mad at what you did.

[@ChairmanOProductions]

TBF, Donald Trump did the same thing in 2016.

[@JonPITBZN]

"I don't know what the moral of the story is here, or the lesson, or the grand take away." Fake it 'til you make it

[@stephenholloway6893]

What's funny was that fake it bit worked for Tex Avery when Leon Schesinger hired him as a animation director despite not having previous directing experience but Tex lied to Leon about it.

[@grinningchicken]

Hanratty Moustache 99+ Charisma 99+ Skill at football 0

[@SouthernGreyShark]

TBF that 1976 Bucs team, collectively, might be the worst offense in NFL history. 😏

[@marcus813]

Nope. The 1977 Bucs' offense was even worse. At least the '76 team's offense averaged over 200 yards of total offense per game. The '77 offense couldn't do that.

[@lakers013]

Wow! Learn something new everyday

[@LoveLawWill]

Which is worse than if he spiked the ball into the ground on every play. DRINK!!! Also, act as if you have faith, and faith will be provided to you. -OR- Fake it til you make it!

[@pendragon2012]

It was Donald Trump, wasn't it? "I can become a football player just by thinking about it."

[@miketemple7686]

Nope, I’m positive it was Sleepy Joe Biden: I’m the QB of you know, the thing the team. Besides not even Tampa Bay’s offense line was as bad as Sleep Joe’s boarder policy: Everyone Gets In! 😂😂

[@iamhungey12345]

@@miketemple7686 To be fair, Corn Pop was a great pass rusher though he was never given that much love from the Pro Bowl voters. Didn't help that he was crummy against the run as well.

[@miketemple7686]

@@iamhungey12345”Corn pop was a great pass rusher”. Quality😂! His patented move was to run his hand up and down the opponent’s leg to feel their hair standing up. He was one bad dude, ol’Corn Pop.

[@Jhoffa22_]

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[@Steve-wo7gt]

Did you really go to law school?

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Yep! Graduated in December 2022 (took 7 semesters because I got my Masters in Sport Law and Business at the same time and did both degrees concurrently)

[@1962LIBBY]

Could have been interesting but preamble too long.

[@aVerveQuest]

No Trump just tried to declare himself the owner of an NFL team

[@SMITHII_]

I declare myself to be a woman

[@bobbyhathorn8847]

Guess which team the Bucs finally broke their losing streak playing??? The Saints...LoL!!!

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

Terry Hanratty was cuckoo

[@bucdaddy5644]

This dude sounds like Donald Trump

[@lakers013]

Too much truth in that statement