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                                      This story is part of ESPN The Magazines Oct. Nike Shoes Black Friday Discount . 31 NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today!Tampa Bay BuccaneersOverall: 73 Title track: 33 Ownership: 81 Coaching: 79 Players: 82 Fan relations: 89 Affordability:?40 Stadium experience:?71 Bang for the buck:?92 Change from last year:?+18When youre a Bucs fan, even a six-win season is something to celebrate (it was only the teams third season since 2009 with at least six wins). So thanks to cheap seats, cheap eats and a somewhat promising outlook, Tampa Bay faithful jumped their squad up 18 spots this year, just outside the NFLs top half.Whats goodThe Bucs best ranking comes in affordability, up 17 spots since last year, and indeed, they have the distinction of offering the second-cheapest tickets in the NFL, just $64 on average for 2015. Even after a 24 percent increase this year, Tampa Bay has among the NFLs lowest prices thanks to an eight-year period without a hike. Even on the secondary market, the median single-game ticket is $162, more expensive only than admission to a Jags game. The Bucs $25 parking is $6 below the NFLs average, and soda and hot dog prices sit below the average, as well. Considering that the Bucs havent finished above .500 since 2010 and havent won a division title since 2007, the team is wise to keep these costs down as it rebuilds its fan base.Whats badAn 89th-place ranking in fan relations speaks to the Bucs initial resistance to special-interest events (their event last year, Women of RED, caught a ton of flak nationally for what critics deemed was an embarrassingly sexist initiative to teach women about football). Since then, though, the group hosted a Moms Football Safety Clinic, sponsored a BizWomen Summit, and its second-annual Invasion event was actually centered around football with topics like Inside the War Room and Rookie Rundown. It appears the Bucs have learned their lesson! The team also hosted an event for young professionals and created the Bucs Squad Youth Program, a free kids club with a large, interactive play park during training camp, a special Kids Day practice, kids-only autograph lines, a birthday shoutout from players and a special Bucs Squad tailgate. This ranking could jump in 2017.Whats newTampa Bays stadium experience ranking -- already up 13 spots from 2015 -- should again improve considerably once fans experience Phase 1 of the two-part, $140 million renovation project at Raymond James Stadium. The giant new HD video boards are 28,000+ square feet, the third-largest video space in the NFL, and the surround sound is crystal clear. The new Hall of Fame Club luxury suites are fully air-conditioned with plush leather seats, full liquor bars and large buffet stations. But dont worry -- that majestic pirate ship in the north end zone is still there. 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A plaque of infamy commemorates the FIFA leadership on the day their gleaming global base opened in 2007. Now it provides a snapshot of a sullied era in soccer governance, with six of seven vice presidents serving under Blatter on that May day since implicated in wrongdoing or banned outright from the sport.FIFA is still trying to shake off the toxic legacy of Blatter, whose 17-year presidency was abruptly halted last October as the extent of his financial misdemeanors started to unravel. The first seven months of Gianni Infantinos presidency have seen the charge sheet against his predecessor grow even as the new leader embarks on a mission to clean up the organization and rebuild trust.And yet Infantino shuffles in his seat when Blatters name is raised during an Associated Press interview, seemingly reticent to join the chorus of those condemning the man revered for so long by soccer leaders globally.Thats not my job to do that, Infantino responded when asked to assess how damaging Blatter was to FIFA. There is an ethics committee looking at this.Asked whether the 80-year-old Blatter should face jail, Infantino responded: I dont want to comment on the past. The facts speak for themselves.Already serving a six-year ban for authorizing an improper payment of 2 million Swiss francs to Michel Platini (one of those now discredited former vice presidents), Blatter is under further investigation for bribery and corruption by the FIFA ethics mechanisms he created. He is also a suspect in a Swiss criminal case but denies wrongdoing.FIFAs own lawyers said in June that Blatter and two colleagues gained improperly through annual salary increases, World Cup bonuses and other incentives exceeding 79 million Swiss francs over five years.Infantino, a Swiss-Italian law graduate, is more guarded than FIFAs own lawyers, withholding a verdict on Blatter until a forensic and financial audit is complete.There will be conclusions of this audit on what went wrong and why things went wrong and on what we have to do to improve things here in the future, Infantino said during an exclusive 30-minute interview -- held in a subterranean lounge at FIFAs Swiss fortress-like HQ where his finger print was required for entry.What concerns the past, there are people are dealing with. I have to make sure in the future wrongdoing doesnt happen anymore in FIFA and around FIFA.That isnt easy when Infantino in February inherited a workforce inevitably packed with Blatter loyalists, staff resistant to change or those still disgruntled at being cut out of the decision-making process. Some executives were dismissed as Infantino cleared out the old guard.When you have to embrace such significant reforms, its obviously normal you get some blowback and turbulence, Infantino said. The worst for a human being is to change his habits. Its obvious some people were not happy but we have to move on.Infantino feels ready to declare: There is a change now in the culture.The vast majority is embracing the change, he added, for a more flat organization where discussion and debate is not prohibited but is open.And yet for months, while striving to instill a new adherence to ethical business practices, Infantino was himself under investigation by FIFAs ethics prosecutors.Infantino has dismissed as orchestrated hysteria claims of excessive spending billed to FIFA for rental cars, a private driver, a tuxedo, flowers and a mattress for his FIFA-owned apartment in Zurich, and a step machine for his office. A FIFA ethics court, which looked into Infantinos use of private flights to visit Pope Francis at the Vatican, Vladimir Putin in MMoscow and the Emir of Qatar, found that no rules had been broken. Wholesale Nike Shoes Black Friday. The damaging leaks, which emerged in early June after a shaky first congress in Mexico for Infantino, seemed intended to paint him as unscrupulous as the old regime.The perception was also fed by those who did not want change to happen -- you cant make omelets without breaking eggs, he said. You learn always from everything you do. Im certainly not someone who has never made mistakes. I am certainly not immune from making mistakes. What is important is to always do things with conviction.The 46-year-old Infantino is FIFAs accidental president. His campaign was only launched on the back of Platini being suspended with Blatter last year, emerging from the shadow of his former boss at European soccers governing body to lead the global game.As UEFAs top administrator, Infantinos moments in the limelight came when hosting Champions League draws while his day-to-day work was in the background, implementing Platinis policies. The two men ended up on the same plane from Switzerland to the UEFA Congress in Athens this week, when onlookers were quick to spread word of their lack of interaction.Before the plane we shook hands, said Infantino, who occupies the job that Platini, the former France captain and coach, craved for so long.Assuming the leadership of the worlds most popular sport and World Cup organizer hasnt been comfortable for Infantino.One other thing that did surprise me, beside the tough opposition, was the public scrutiny that you are faced with, Infantino said. You learn to deal with this, to be maybe a bit more sensitive.Apart from swelling the World Cup by eight teams to make it a 40-country competition and taking about changes to the Olympic football competition, Infantino is still short of detail about his plans for FIFA -- beyond overseeing its clean-up.And there is wariness not only about condemning Blatter but also Russia, host of the 2018 World Cup, over a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation which exposed a state-sponsored doping scheme that included football,Its not my job to judge this report, Infantino said.Lets work in a positive sense in this direction rather than trying to undermine the World Cup, he added, while backing Russias sports minister, Vitality Mutko, implicated in the doping program. Mutko denies any wrongdoing.W