Brady wins Super Bowl: Tampa beats Kansas City

There is no match: the Bucs win 31-9 against the reigning champions Kansas City Chiefs. The first-year quarterback away from the Patriots wins again: he is in his seventh career triumph. No NFL team has as many rings on the board as he does

It’s all true. At 43, Tom Brady wins the Super Bowl as best player, dragging Tampa Bay to the comfortable success, 31-9 over Kansas City. The Bucs celebrate as underdogs at home, at Raymond James Stadium, the first time it happens, and we talk about Super Bowl 55. For Brady, in the tenth final, it is the seventh triumph, more than any of the 32 NFL franchises: at most Patriots and Steelers have celebrated six times. For the Bucs it is the second franchise seal, after that of 2003. The most difficult season, that of the pandemic, in which the league still managed to play every game, and to bring 25,000 spectators, 7,500 selected among the health personnel vaccinated against COVID , on the stands in Tampa, ends with the best player ever in the history of the game who recalibrates the limits of the impossible.

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BRADY E MAHOMES

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Brady wins the duel with Mahomes, 18 years younger than him, the phenomenal quarterback champion in office. Having already beaten Brees and Rodgers away. He wins in the first year with the new shirt, although training in the pandemic was complicated, it has lengthened the amalgamation times. And Tampa hadn’t even played the playoffs 12 months ago without him. Brady wins MVP for the fifth time: yet another record. Pure Coach Arians at 68 establishes a longevity private: the most “veteran” ever to triumph. Tampa dominates the game beyond all odds or expectations, even of Bucs fans. The defense does not grant even a goal to the so far atomic attack of Kansas City, Mahomes is intercepted twice, abandoned from the offensive line, at the mercy of the opponent’s pass rush and with a sore toe, to be operated in the near future. The Chiefs perhaps pay for too much safety, almost swagger: during the season they had turned the engine on and off, sure they could afford it. They remain stranded on the most beautiful.

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REFEREE AND MUSIC

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It was the first time of a female referee, Sarah Thomas, it was the first and hopefully last time of a Super Bowl played in a pandemic, with health protocols to be memorized like the playbook patterns, for each player. There was, however, the music show at the interval of Canadian singer The Weeknd. Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan sang the national anthem, young poet Amanda Gorman had a voice before the coin toss. The only moment in which the Chiefs have played evenly, even winning it. Then Tampa put on a monologue and he entered the scene, Tom Brady, from today all the more reason one of the best sportsmen of every era, beyond American football.

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THE MATCH

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Kansas City scores first with Butker’s 49-yard kick. 3-0. With 37 ”to play in the 1st quarter Brady finds Gronkowski for the first half of the match. 8 yards pass: the two ex of the Patriots strike again. 7-3 Tampa after 15 ‘of football. Brady eats the field, but Haeg, the improvised lineman receiver for the occasion, surprisingly, eats a touchdown with the ball in his hands in the end zone and then on the 4th down & goal Tampa makes Jones run and not Fournette . Wilson stops him inches from the end zone. Kansas City breathes. But punter Townsend kicks for just 29 yards. Another golden opportunity for the Bucs: possession from the opposing 38 yards. A hold by Ward nullifies an interception by Mathieu, an offside forced 4th down. Brady then does not forgive: again throw for Gronkowski, this time for 17 yards: 14-3. Mahomes grinds pitches for Kelce, but the Chiefs have to settle for another Butker kick, this time from 34 yards. 14-6. The Chiefs defense continues to accumulate penalties. Brady with 6 ”to play in the first half finds Brown, another former Pats, for a pass from a yard. It is worth 21-6 at the interval. Three tries launched by Brady, dominant. 8 penalty for 95 yards by the Chiefs, out of control, with Mathieu unleashed.

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THE EXTENSION

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Butker scores the third field goal of the evening, this from 52 yards, to shorten the distance at the beginning of the second half: 21-9. But Tampa replies immediately, and with interest. Brady for Gronk, and then Fournette’s 27-yard run is worth the 28-9. Barrett gets his hands on Mahomes. Winfield and White intercept the opposing quarterback. The Chiefs close aimlessly, the Bucs among the confetti.

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