Where Are They Now?

   
Dave Green

This Ohio University alum came to the Bucs in 1976 in the expansion draft from the Bengals, where he was the last of the old style straight ahead kickers, not the soccer types that had become en vogue.

With the Bucs Dave not only punted, but did the place kicking, the last in the NFL to do the double duty. Dave is in the record books as having scored the first regular season points ever for the Bucs

Dave Green is the man you see on the NFL Hi-Lite films, showing the miscues of those early Bucs, Dave is the one holding for Neil O’Donoghue’s kick. Charlie Hannah snapped the ball over both Dave and Neil’s heads. Ah yes, infamy, Dave loves it.

Dave has ventured into broadcasting, having done a national TV show with Tedd Webb, “Sports Collectables”, featuring baseball and football cards, plus other collectables, sold over TV ala Home Shopping Network. Dave also teamed with Tedd to do color commentating on Time Warner High School Football.

This Ohio native was in a Rock & Roll band through high school school and in college. “The Blues Incorporated” featured Green on drums. Seeing what drummers make today, Dave jokingly says he feels he made a wrong career decision by choosing football.

Green goes down in history as one of the funniest football players ever to walk through One Buccaneer Place, “you needed a sense of humor in those days”.

Dave owns his own business, Green’s Screens in Tampa. He installs and repairs pool and patio enclosures.

Dave Green can be reached at: greensscreens@aol.com






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