Sports in the Tampa Bay area
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title:
Sports in the Tampa Bay area
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The Tampa Bay area is home to many sports teams and has a substantial history of sporting activity. Most of the region's professional sports franchises use the name "Tampa Bay", which is the name of a body of water, not of any city. This is to emphasize that they represent the wider metropolitan area and not a particular municipality and was a tradition started by Tampa's first major sports team, the original Tampa Bay Rowdies, when they were founded in 1975. Tampa currently has three franchises
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Overview of sports opportunities in the Tampa Bay area
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_the_Tampa_Bay_area
date created:
2008-12-24T18:32:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T01:15:39Z
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