The Bucs may be having an up-and-down year thus far, but their gear has been scoring high sales on the Web.
Sales of Tampa Bay Buccaneers merchandise are up 135 percent over last year at the NFL's official online store, NFLShop.com. In addition, three of the top-selling items on the site are the Bucs-brand replica jerseys from team favorites Mike Alstott, John Lynch and Warren Sapp.
And it's not just Tampa Bay area fans driving up sales. Eighty percent of Bucs paraphernalia bought from the NFL site is purchased by people outside of Florida.
NFL spokesman Dan Masonson said there's a fairly good correlation between a winning season and high sales. T-shirt, anyone?
