Thursday was supposed to be the Bucs’ last day of mandatory mini-camp, but coach Lovie Smith had other ideas. Instead, he thought it would be good to send the team to the bowling alley.
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“I just felt like this was a perfect ending to a great offseason,” Smith said, via Buccaneers.com. “We haven’t had a chance to do any team-building exercises so this is good to get the guys away from the football field and in a different environment, a competitive one at that. You can see the competition, the same type of competitive spirit you see out there on the football field. It was a great ending. Of course, it was all a surprise to them. The guys came in today expecting to practice, one hard practice to go and they get this.”
It certainly looked like the players enjoyed it. Jameis Winston showed off his skills by bowling a spare and Pro Bowl defensive tackle Gerald McCoy had a strike.
To top it all off, the team had snow cones after its bowling event.
