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Rays' blueprint: Follow path of the NFL's Bucs

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, February 20, 2003

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- They met a few weeks ago on a golf course in Tampa. The coach of the Super Bowl champs. The manager of that baseball team across the bay. Jon Gruden and Lou Piniella. They have more in common than you might think. Let us count the ways: They've both presided over wild Tampa parades already. That's the first thing. Of course, Gruden's parade was a Super Bowl parade. Piniella, on the other hand, was just the grand marshall of something called the Sant'Yago Knight Parad ...

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