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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Greatest QB: Remembering Doug Williams
Published: November 4, 2009
"You can break the back but you can't break the spirit of a small-town Southern Man.."
--Alan Jackson, "Small Town Southern Man"
John McKay took what appeared to be a major risk in the 1978 NFL draft. The Buccaneers had the 17th pick in the first round and selected Doug Williams, a quarterback from tiny but legendary Grambling State University.
African-American quarterbacks were few and far between back then and McKay felt that Williams, a small-town kid from Zachary, LA, was the final piece to the puzzle that could provide Tampa with a winner, a championship-calibre team.
We marveled at his size. At 6'4" and nearly 235 pounds, he looked up close like a linebacker. His throwing arm was powerful, he was a physical specimen. But could he handle th...
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