From the gridiron to the golf course

Sitting at an ornate conference table in a bungalow just off the north entrance to Innisbrook Golf & Spa Resort is Ronde Barber. It’s been raining all day and he had to drive to Palm Harbor from South Tampa, making him late for a 4 p.m. meeting.

Barber smiles. It’s the smile known by millions of football fans who tuned into FOX on Sunday afternoons for about seven years and so familiar to Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans who cheered him for nearly two decades, a champion in this town long before anyone thought guys named Brady or Gronkowski would wear pewter.