"It is a slap in the face to Bucs fans followed by a spit in the eye" - Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan calls out NFL for skipping over team's Super Bowl run during 'America's Game' marathon

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' history is getting erased in the eyes of one fan and he is not happy about it.

On "Joe Bucs fan," a fan-run blog, a Tampa Bay supporter tore into the NFL for skipping the Bucs' 2002 Super Bowl-winning run during an "America's Game" marathon.

"America's Game" is a documentary series that covers the season of the Super Bowl champions from every season going back to the 1960s.

The marathon aired on NFL Network over the holiday weekend, and Joe was not pleased to find that one of his team's episodes had not been featured. Upon finding out that the 2002 Buccaneers and 1995 Dallas Cowboys episodes were not going to be aired, he took aim at the league.

Here's what he said:

"That’s right. The NFL is pretending like that Bucs season never existed. And why is that? Because it has or is trying to cancel the two big stars of that season and the 'America’s Game' episode: Chucky and Warren Sapp. It is a slap in the face to Bucs fans followed by a spit in the eye..."

"The Bucs’ 'America’s Game,' which featured Chucky, John Lynch and Sapp highlighting the season through observations and storytelling is fronted by two guys the NFL wants you to believe never existed. So the NFL is canceling Chucky and Sapp. Erasing proud Bucs history in the process."

He went on to call the move cowardly:

"In Joe’s eyes, this is a coward’s move at best. They could have just added something to the end of the episode explaining what Chucky and Sapp did and how they paid the price. Again, use it as a teaching moment. Don’t erase proud history of the greatest accomplishment of a too-often terrible franchise."

Lastly, Joe took aim at NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and called him "spineless."

"Yeah, that NFL Network was cowardly. Purge it from the hard drive. Never happened. What else would you expect from a sniveling fraud and a pandering, spineless humanoid like Goodell?"

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How exactly did the Buccaneers' 2002 season pan out?

Mariucci congratulates Gruden

Leading up to the 2002 season, the Buccaneers were flying high with head coach Tony Dungy. In the five previous seasons, the team had made the playoffs four times, but never advanced to the Super Bowl.

As such, the team hoped that when Jon Gruden took the reins in place of Dungy in 2002, he could accomplish what the previous head coach could not.

Gruden's team lost their season opener, but quickly bounced back and hit top gear. By the end of Week 6, the team was 5-1. Tampa Bay continued to dominate games and cruised to a first division title since 1999.

After powering through the playoffs, the Buccaneers advanced to the Super Bowl, where Gruden and co. faced the Oakland Raiders.

It was a stroke of luck for Gruden, as he had coached the Raiders the previous year and knew the team's strengths and weaknesses. This came in handy as the Buccaneers won the game 48-21 to lift the Super Bowl for the first time.