befitting his status as an NFL starter, Williams bolted to the USFL, where he played two seasons for the Oklahoma/Arizona Outlaws. Without Williams, the Bucs appeared to be a rudderless team. The Bucs started the next season by losing their first nine games, knocking them out of playoff contention. They finished with a 2–14 record, the first of an NFL-record 12 consecutive seasons with ten or more losses. Many Bucs fans blamed Williams’ departure for this seemingly endless streak of futility, and the fact that Williams later returned to the NFL and led the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII only deepened the frustration among Bucs fans. It can be argued that the team's lengthy woes were primarily due to how Culverhouse ran the organization. Culverhouse kept the team's payroll among the lowest in the league, which prompted few quality players to sign with the team. The ones who did rarely stayed long. Selmon, the Bucs’ first draft pick in 1976 and the first Hall of Famer to have earned his credentials primarily in Tampa Bay, was the only real star who had a long tenure with the team. The Bucs suffered from several missteps in the NFL Draft. The most notorious of these blunders was the team's selection of 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson as the #1 overall pick when he openly stated he would never play for them. Jackson had never forgiven Culverhouse or the Bucs when they flew him to Tampa for a physical and a visit at the team's expense during his senior year at Auburn, leading him to believe that the NCAA and Southeastern Conference had approved the trip. In truth, they had not done so, and the trip cost Jackson his eligibility during his senior baseball season. Jackson believed the Bucs had deliberately tried to sabotage his baseball career, and told Culverhouse that "you're going to be wasting a draft pick" if they selected him. Earlier, in the 1977 draft, the Bucs had passed on future Hall of Fame running back Tony Dorsett with the No. 1 overall pick in favor of Ricky Bell, who had played for McKay at USC, while they subsequently traded away picks that turned into eventual Hall of Famers Dan Hampton and Irving Fryar. The franchise also frequently traded or gave up on quality players who went on to greater success on other teams. The most