This story was bound to get written this week. Isaac Hagins returned a couple kickoffs for touchdowns during the 1976 preseason but separated his shoulder before he could do it in the regular season. He's been following the Bucs ever since and was as happy as anyone that Micheal Spurlock finally got the first one in the regular season. He was thinking the same thing I was when it first happened.

"Where are the penalty flags?" he said.

There were none.

"Been watching the replays ever since," Hagins said. "I was part of the streak."

The Tribune spoke to Parnell Dickinson and Doug Williams. Dickinson especially wants to remind people that Hagins was returning kickoffs before the other whippersnappers were even born.

Hagins returned 40 kicks for the Bucs. His two longest went 41 yards. Parnell Dickinson was Hagins' teammate in 1976. He was at Sunday's game. After the game, Parnell reminded anyone he could.

"Ike was the first in the preseason," Dickinson said. "I want people to remember Tight Man."

"Tight Man." That's what teammates called Ike Hagins.

Hmm. "Tight Man"? If he had been a tight end, I could see it maybe. But Hagins was a wide receiver. You know the clip of the inaugural Bucs where the pass bounces off a guy's helmet? That's him. Williams explains the nickname a little.

"He had all those muscles," Doug Williams said. "Ike was small, but muscle-bound. He could hardly put his arms at his sides. It might have hurt his range of motion. But when Ike was going, he went fast."

So, he was small and compact but strong, so he was Tight Man. Ok, I'll buy it for the sake of history. But I think if you tried to stick that nickname on a short, muscular guy today like Maurice Jones-Drew or Willie Parker, you'd get punched square in the teeth.