Jessica Saggio

FLORIDA TODAY

Wednesday night the baby woke up screaming. My husband rolled over, and in a prince-charming-like moment he said, "Don't worry, I'll get her."

Mostly, I think it was because he was already wide awake. He was lying there stewing over the decision to fire Lovie Smith, the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was 10 p.m. when they made the announcement on social media, and he was falling into an odd funk from the news. We both were pretty jazzed when Lovie took over, it seemed like the perfect fit. Now after another lackluster season, the Buccaneer owners were canning yet another coach.

He came back from tending to the baby and basically woke me up to say, "They fired Lovie." I mumbled something along the lines of "Oh man that sucks" and rolled back to sleep.

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Less than 12 hours later, I see this posted on his Facebook:

He has applied to be the Bucs' new head coach. I don't know why I'm surprised. He applied to be a NASA astronaut too. They never called.

When I saw this I literally cackled out loud at work. I'm pretty sure all my co-workers think I'm psychotic, but hopefully this explains some things. Because I couldn't quite read his gem of a cover letter on there, I asked him to send it to me. (Also, I'm pretty sure he sent this to some generic "contact us" page for the Bucs)

It reads:

I love that he references his military service and aviation background as why he's qualified.

When I told him I was going to write a column about this, he was actually ecstatic.

"Great," he said. "I want to get the word out."

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I think he may actually think he has a real shot. Honestly, maybe he does. The last two coaches were fired after a relatively short period of time, and at this point I think Bucs fans would take just about anything if it meant winning. Maybe a Marine-turned-aviation-professional is the guy to get the job done? I don't know, but I can't stop laughing. He has also issued a statement on his recent announcement referencing his success in fantasy football:

So that's a thing that happened this week, and I couldn't be more proud. He called me a few minutes ago to say, "So you'd be cool with moving to Tampa?"

Yes, darling, I would move to Tampa if you were named head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers...