The WORST HOMECOMING GAME in NFL HISTORY | Troy Hambrick- Cowboys @ Buccaneers (2003)

[@DANGMQ]

Quincy Carter.....part of the Cowboys Dark Period at QB that lasted from 2001-2006.

[@MichaelCochran21]

"What DO 'voluntary' mean?" -- Darren Hambrick's most memorable quote

[@astrosjer822]

This is part of the reason that Hambrick and Quincy Carter have been largely forgotten in NFL history. Carter and his “issues” could be a whole video by itself.

[@JWex-jy7sk]

Carter recently gave an interview back in January how marijuana, alcohol, and cocaine destroyed his NFL career. By his 3rd year in Dallas he has the best season helping lead the Cowboys to the playoffs, and then he’s cut by them for failing a drug test and out of the league entirely just a year later. He just recently celebrated a dozen years of officially being drug-free and sober.

[@astrosjer822]

@@JWex-jy7sk kudos to him for finding sobriety

[@awesomebillfromdawsomevill7788]

As a very young naive cowboys fan back then, I remember being so heart broken by Quincy carter being let go after that playoff birth lol. I’m glad he got clean though

[@kevinhambrick2035]

Growing up I was asked if I was related to "the football Troy Hambrick" a few times, I am not. I never thought anything of it because I didnt watch football growing up and it was a question that didnt really stick with me. This is the first time I've seen what he looks like, and needless to say, we're not even the same race. Why would anyone have thought we were related.

[@RodPower78]

I don't remember the post game comments, but Troy Hambrick was pretty average for the most part. The Boys made the right move washing their hands of him after the season.

[@redmustangredmustang]

Parcells got Hambrick and Carter to heights they only dreamed of. Parcells took a previous 5-11 team that would have leads and blow close games to a playoff team the next season. He got much out of a mediocre team and got them again to the playoffs. It's just sad that under Parcells they couldn't find a consistent QB until Romo got his first start in 2006.

[@shackdaddy7106]

Romo was a consistent quarterback? If he was as good of a quarterback as he is an announcer, the Cowboys would’ve won five or six Super Bowls when he played there.

[@odalebeckhamjr.3417]

Carter wasn’t exactly good… lol and neither was hambrick. Defense is a thing & was even more so in 03..

[@odalebeckhamjr.3417]

@@shackdaddy7106romo wa a consistent QB… I guess supporting cast means nothing and Dan Marino deserves zero credit for anything he did in his super bowl-less career

[@shackdaddy7106]

@@odalebeckhamjr.3417 romo was a consistent quarterback. Consistently average. He made critical mistakes at the critical moments beginning with his rookie season. When he fumbled that extra point attempt in the playoff game against the Seahawks. I don’t think he ever really recovered from that. Then became an injury machine. I didn’t hate him as a player. I just thought he was average. As I said, in my opinion, he is a much better announcer.

[@nasetvideos]

Definitely the worst homecoming game I've ever heard of, for sure--Excellent video. Great story-telling on your end.

[@RicoBurghFan]

I think Hambrick was sorely disappointed and lashed out. It's a human response but definitely ill-timed. Put yourself in his place, with all the circumstances, and it's kinda hard to criticize him IMO.

[@nmarkert01]

I feel like more than any other division, the NFC East has random guys that will just go OFF against their division rivals but otherwise are kinda eh players. Lol.

[@shackdaddy7106]

I am happy that at the beginning of this video that you showed the great Larry Fitzgerald. Born in my hometown in Minneapolis. And the second greatest wide receiver of all time. Only behind Jerry Rice. On top of his greatness as a player, he is a 100% class act. One of the reasons he did not come back to the Cardinals in 2021 is that he felt that Kyler Murray had no respect for him.

[@chadwickwhite6107]

Yet ANOTHER video where BOTH teams are a 39.6. They would BOTH be BETTER OFF just SPIKING the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!

[@chrisayres2340]

still have my quincy carter jersey, hate the cowboys but love my carter jersey

[@mgb4692]

More weirdness here: this was the year where the Bucs were an off-field train wreck. Sapp exploded with his "slaves on the plantation" rant a few weeks earlier, and they would bench (and then deactivate) Keyshawn either after this game or next. Both would be gone (along with John Lynch) the next year, with Keyshawn going to the Cowboys for Joey Galloway. Hambrick didn't even make it to the end of his lone season in Arizona, finishing on IR. If he had he would have seen the Bucs, without the aforementioned trio, in a truly woeful season finale that has to be one of the 10 worst games ever played in NFL history.

[@Jamelk1]

With his logic the Chiefs aren’t that good they just have Mahomes, Hill, Travis, and Andy

[@tomitstube]

that bucs defense is arguably in the top 5 of all time, they had an 8 year run that's pretty much the best of all time. for a guy to trash them after they shut his ass down is "clueless" at best. no sense of humility what-so-ever, and man he took some hard hits, troy would have been much better off avoiding some of those hits, guys were t-ing off on him.

[@DolFan316]

This is the same guy who trashed Emmitt Smith so class and humility weren't his thing.

[@Bruce12867]

Coincidentally, Lacoochee was also the hometown of former MLB pitcher Jim "Mudcat" Grant.

[@chicagoakland]

According to Wikipedia, Mudcat is actually Troy Hambrick's uncle.

[@DolFan316]

I'm firmly on Sapp's side in this one, and I NEVER thought I'd say that.

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian believes this is the first video you’ve made about a game that took place during the 2003 season. He will also remind everyone you made a video about another press conference after a blowout loss in Florida against the defending Super Bowl champions in which a member of the losing team polled the media. In that case it was Falcons Coach Norm van Brocklin asking the media if they wanted to fight him after a loss in Miami in 1974. Van Brocklin got fired the next day.

[@LordZolric]

I remember the game and Hambrick and honestly in my opinion Emmitt Smith may have been at the end of his career but was still a better running back than Hambrick.

[@DolFan316]

Hambrick's best season (by far) was 972 yards. Emmitt's final season in Dallas (when he was washed up at age 33) was 975 yards. So...yeah.

[@onedimensional007]

You produce the best videos.

[@thefutureistubes5838]

Did any Cowboy's player have a rushing attempt in the second half of that game? I think that was the game Parcels stopping calling any run plays because Quincy Carter kept turning to watch the running back instead of carrying out his play action fakes.

[@stewartgoodwin9488]

Well Donald Brooks, Warren Sapp, Ronde Barber, John Lynch... You're not gonna do a lot against those guys.

[@turbokart3776]

There is absolutely no saltiness in the comment about picking which Derrick Henry game against Jacksonville is his best. None whatsoever.

[@cowyemrsox]

I'm from Orlando, Florida and live in Dallas, Texas. I've been a life long Bucs fan and I wish I could give Hambrick a hug, what happened in his life was awful. Still never going to be Cowboys fan though. Go Bucs!

[@chadwickwhite6107]

NFL TRIVIA EVERY Wednesday night on TWITCH!!!!!! Test YOUR FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE and win CASH PRIZES!!!!!

[@marcus813]

Lifelong Tampa Bay resident here. I'm proud of Hambrick making it to the NFL, but what the blue hell was he thinking talking trash about the Bucs' NFC-best D after the game?! It was as if he forgot which D he was facing and that said D shut his offense, especially him, down. Warren Sapp was right to get in his ass.

[@DolFan316]

Hambrick talked trash about Emmitt Smith too. Some people have no internal filter, especially these days.

[@marcus813]

@@DolFan316 Hambrick had some nerve talking about Smith like that. I don't know why Hambrick couldn't just learn from Smith become a better halfback instead of being all slick at the mouth. I guess his jump to Arizona only to end up backing up Smith just like he did just outside Dallas was karma.

[@OGFELIPE1700]

Darren (D-Ham) & Troy (Wimp) are my real life cousins. I was like 9-10 yo when they played for DAL. I honestly felt like he didn’t sprout playin behind Emmitt. He was avg or below avg. The worst part about his career I never understood was HE WENT TO ARIZONA RIGHT BEHIND EMMITT AGAIN! 😂 love you cuz but sheeeeeeeeeeesh mane

[@kennethzinke9168]

What happened in Week 8 of the 2003 NFL season? Was it a Southern-style Sunday afternoon? Does the two NFL teams, the Dallas Cowboys (which they belong in the NFC East Division) and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (which they belong in the NFC South Division) have Southern roots? What did God, also known as Lord Jesus from way up in heaven see the Buccaneers do? Did they wear their pewter helmets, white uniforms and pewter pants?

[@dasteelers75]

You have too much adds in your videos!

[@gloriousnash8781]

Stop hating

[@qbchadp]

The Bucs had an average defense in 2003, a huge drop off from the 2002 Season.

[@crowtservo]

They gave up the 4th fewest points and 5th fewest yards. They still had a good defensive unit, their offense was below league average.

[@inttruders]

@@crowtservoYou are correct. It kind of amazes me how many people will say something factually incorrect without doing a 10 second google search first.

[@crowtservo]

@@inttruders They gave up 64 more points in 2003 than they did in 2002. They also scored 45 fewer points in 2003 vs. 2002.

[@qbchadp]

Went 12-4 in 2002 due to their defense and were world champions. Went 7-9 in 2003 and they sat on the couch watching the playoffs with all of us. The Buccaneers d couldn’t bail the offense out in 2003 like it did in 2002. I watched the games and remember it all. The Bucs were terrible in 2003. The 7-9 record doesn’t lie since stats are the end all be all. Lmao 😂