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Jeremy Trottier

Buccaneers evacuate to New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Milton

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be moving their practices to New Orleans this week, as they move to avoid Hurricane Milton throughout the week, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. This comes as the Buccaneers are set to take on the New Orleans Saints in Week 6, which makes the logistics of this move somewhat easier on their end as they were able to get a hotel in the area.

Additionally, they will be practicing at Tulane’s Yulman Stadium throughout the week, per Nola.com’s Jeff Duncan. The Buccaneers have multiple connections to Yulman Stadium and Tulane as well which Duncan mentioned later, including the club lounge at Yulman being named the Glazer Family Club.

Hurricane Milton has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane according to the National Hurricane Center, and is expected to make landfall later in the week between Wednesday and Thursday according to current projections. Ultimately for the Buccaneers, the decision was made as Tampa Bay is well within the projected range of where the storm will hit, and for the safety of the team and employees it made the most sense to move further west to New Orleans.

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