In Memoriam | Joy McCann Culverhouse 1920-2016

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Joy McCann Culverhouse was often seen on the sidelines of Tampa Bay Buccaneers games, cheering on the upstart team.

Not only because she and her husband, Hugh Culverhouse Sr., owned the team and were the people who brought the NFL to Tampa. And not only because McCann Culverhouse also brought creamsicle orange to pro sports, helping to pick the Bucs uniform colors.

Her visible and vocal support goes back to her longtime passion for sports. McCann Culverhouse was a champion golfer, and one the first women granted a partial sports scholarship — playing on the men's golf team at Louisiana State University. She won the women's state golf championship of Alabama in 1941 and 1947 and won the 1961 Florida Women's Amateur Title.