In honor of the name of this thread, all wanna be pirates need to make travel plans for Gasparilla 2008, the 3rd largest parade in the U.S. held in late January in Tampa. This is why they are the Bucs basically.

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I'm not a big an of Wiki but this is the only way not to post a commercial link for Gasparilla. Then there is the Knight Parade a week or two later.