No Ring of Honor For The Bucs in 2023

We made a post on our Facebook page Thursday, stating that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be celebrating Ronde Barber’s induction into the Hall of Fame appropriately during Week 3’s contest against the Philadelphia Eagles, but added to the news wire came word from Greg Auman of Fox Sports that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will not be inducting anyone into the Ring of Honor this year. Greg Auman also mentioned that this would only be the second time since 2009 that the organization has not inducted a player into the Ring of Honor. The Bucs did not conduct a Ring of Honor ceremony in 2020 due to COVID-19 protocols.

Many fans had heard the news and are wondering why they are not inducting anyone this year into the Ring, with so many people in line deserving of the honor. Ricky Bell, Simeon Rice, and Hardy Nickerson are some of the players that pop into my mind at first, and then there is one in particular who is more deserving of the honor; Jill Hobbs. Hobbs had been with the team since 1976 until her passing in 2021. She was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. No one, in my opinion, is more deserving than Jill Hobbs of a Ring of Honor induction, and this should be the reason the organization is not doing an induction this year: preparations for Jill and making it the best induction in team history.

Bucs will not induct a new member into the team’s Ring of Honor this season. Team will celebrate Ronde Barber’s Hall induction and also have a throwback game, but no new ROH for 2023.

— Greg Auman (@gregauman) June 22, 2023

Except for the COVID year in 2020, Bucs had inducted at least one new member into their Ring of Honor every year since starting it in 2009. No new inductee this season.

— Greg Auman (@gregauman) June 22, 2023