The Tampa Bay Buccaneers rule Tampa for the most sports team interest by its residents, despite not being very good most years. Lightning, a distant 2nd. Tampa does not support the Rays much either. There are always more Red Sox fans at Tropicana Field than Rays fans for all their MLB games there. Boston's fans come in and literally take over The Trop for all the Rays- Red Sox games that are played there. USF is mostly a commuter school, and it plays its football games miles away from its campus, in an area where some fabulous beaches are close nearby, and where there are lots of appealing other things to do on the weekends besides taking in an AAC matchup college level football game at the Bucs field, miles from the USF campus.
