Longtime Bucs team doctor and Tampa surgeon dies at 83

Dr. Joe Diaco was one of the longest-running team doctors in NFL history.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 1:00 p.m. January 2, 2023
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Dr. Joe Diaco (Photo courtesy of the Diaco family)
Dr. Joe Diaco (Photo courtesy of the Diaco family)
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Dr. Joe Diaco, a longtime Tampa area surgeon and the first doctor of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he became one of the longest-running team doctors in NFL history, died Dec. 19. He was 83. 

 

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