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Aaarrrggghhh! WashPost Writer Triggered By Tampa Bay Team Name ‘Buccaneers’

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Joseph Curl
Aaarrrggghhh! WashPost Writer Triggered By Tampa Bay Team Name ‘Buccaneers’
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The word police are apparently running out of things about which to get offended.

In a piece before the Super Bowl, Jamie L.H. Goodall, a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, penned a piece for The Washington Post headlined “The Buccaneers embody Tampa’s love of pirates. Is that a problem?”

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