<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> ← XXXVI </Li> <Li> Super Bowl </Li> <Li> XXXVIII → </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> ← XXXVI </Li> <Li> Super Bowl </Li> <Li> XXXVIII → </Li> </Ul> <P> Super Bowl XXXVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Oakland Raiders and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2002 season . The Buccaneers defeated the Raiders by the score of 48--21, tied with Super Bowl XXXV for the seventh largest Super Bowl margin of victory, and winning their first ever Super Bowl . The game, played on January 26, 2003 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, was the sixth Super Bowl to be held a week after the conference championship games (XVII, XXV, XXVIII, XXXIV, and XXXVI). It was also the last Super Bowl played in the month of January . Super Bowl XXXVI was the first to be played in February, due to the NFL postponing games for a week after the September 11 attacks . Starting with Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004, the Super Bowl has been permanently played in February . This was the last Super Bowl until Super Bowl 50 to take place in California . </P> <P> It was the first and only time until Super Bowl XLVIII in Super Bowl history that the league's number one - ranked offense (Raiders) was pitted against the league's number one - ranked defense (Buccaneers). Super Bowl XXXVII is also referred to as the "Pirate Bowl", due to both teams' pirate - themed names . </P>

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