Author of The Yucks! to Discuss on Nov. 9 How Tampa Landed the Bucs

Jason Vuic, whose most recent book, The Yucks! Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History, chronicles the Tampa Bay Buccaneers losing streak during the 1976 and 1977 seasons, will stop by The University of Tampa on Wednesday, Nov. 9.

Vuic will speak on “The Quest for an NFL Franchise: How Tiny Tampa Landed the Bucs.” The event, sponsored by The Friends of the Macdonald-Kelce Library, begins at 6 p.m. in the Vaughn Center’s Reeves Theater and is free and open to the public.

Vuic is a writer and historian from Fort Worth, TX. In addition to The Yucks!, he is the author of The Sarajevo Olympics: A History of the 1984 Winter Games (UMass, 2015) and The Yugo: the Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History (Hill and Wang, 2010). He has appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition, American Public Media’s Marketplace, Fox and Friends in the Morning, C-SPAN’s Book TV, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s The Current and on a live segment of Bloomberg News.

A graduate of Wake Forest University, he holds a master’s in history from the University of Richmond and a doctorate in history from Indiana University Bloomington. He has been both a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar, and has given invited talks at such prestigious institutions as the Harvard Business School.

The event is co-sponsored by The Friends of the Macdonald-Kelce Library and the Honors Program. For more information, contact the Honors Program at honors@ut.edu.