New kickers have positive impact
Shelby Strother, The St.Petersburg Times, published 28 September 1981

After one game anyway, folks don't have the Tampa Bay Bucs’ kicking game to kick around.

All week long, Bucs fans were trying to screw goat horns atop John McKay's head. Sunday, the chance to turn those goat horns into a rack of trophy antlers was there. Bill Capece and Larry Swider could have shanked, squibbed and flubbed an ebbing confidence in McKay and his ability to evaluate players from here to Route 66.

Instead they booted away the surliness and dissent like so many mushrooms in a back- yard.

Capece and Swider, summoned Tuesday to revive a sagging special teams unit, contributed eight points, deep field goals and steady-to-outstanding punting in the Bucs’ 20-10 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at Tampa Stadium.

Meanwhile, former Bucs’ placekicker Neil O'Donoghue - who could have sullied some of the brilliance of McKay's youth movement decision by having an equally outstanding kicking day - had one field goal, one miss (from 52 yards) and an extra point. Nothing to droop your head about, but also not enough to take the spotlight away from the Bucs' new kids on the block.