Brady wins Super Bowl: Tampa beats Kansas City

Everything is true. At age 43, Tom Brady wins the Super Bowl as best player, dragging Tampa Bay to comfortable success, 31-9 over Kansas City. The Bucs celebrate like losers at home at Raymond James Stadium the first time it happens, and we talk about Super Bowl 55. For Brady, in the 10th final, it is the seventh win, more than any of the 32 franchises in the NFL. – At most, the Patriots and Steelers have celebrated six times. For the Bucs it is the second franchise stamp, after 2003. The most difficult season, that of the pandemic, in which the league still managed to play every game, and bring 25,000 spectators, 7,500 selected from among the health personnel vaccinated against COVID, in the stands of Tampa, ends with the best player in the history of the game who recalibrates the limits of the impossible.

BRADY E MAHOMES

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Brady wins the duel with Mahomes, 18 years younger than him, the phenomenal quarterback in charge. Having already beaten Brees and Rodgers. Win in the first year with the new shirt, although training in the pandemic was complicated, it has lengthened the fusion times. And Tampa hadn’t even played the playoffs 12 months ago without him. Brady wins MVP for the fifth time – another record. Pure Coach Arians at 68 establishes a longevity soldier: the most “veteran” to succeed. Tampa dominates the game beyond all odds or expectations, even from Bucs fans. The defense does not concede a goal to the hitherto atomic attack of Kansas City, Mahomes is intercepted twice, abandoned from the offensive line, at the mercy of the opponent’s pass and with pain in his toe, to be operated in the near future . . The Chiefs may be paying for too much security, almost boastfulness: They had turned the engine on and off for the season, sure they could afford it. They are stranded in the most beautiful.

REFEREE AND MUSIC

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It was the first time that a referee, Sarah Thomas, was the first and hopefully last time a Super Bowl was played in a pandemic, with health protocols to be memorized as the playbook patterns, for each player. . However, there was a music show in the interval by 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 time the Chiefs have played even, even winning it. Then Tampa mounted a monologue and Tom Brady entered the scene, from today all the more reason one of the best athletes of all times, beyond American football.

THE MATCH

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Kansas City scores first on a 49-yard kick from Butker. 3-0. With 37 ”to play in the 1st quarter Brady finds Gronkowski for the first half of the game. 8-yard pass: The two former Patriots attack again. 7-3 Tampa after 15 ‘of football. Brady eats the field, but Haeg, the makeshift line receiver for the occasion, surprisingly eats a touchdown with the ball in his hands in the end zone and then on the fourth down and the Tampa goal makes Jones run and not Fournette. Wilson stops him inches from the end zone. Kansas City breathes. But kicker Townsend kicks only 29 yards. Another golden opportunity for the Bucs: possession from the opposing team’s 38 yards. Ward’s grab nullifies a Mathieu interception, an offside forced a quarter down. So Brady is unforgiving: He throws again for Gronkowski, this time for 17 yards: 14-3. Mahomes grinds shots for Kelce, but the Chiefs have to settle for another kick from Butker, this time from 34 yards. 14-6. The Chiefs defense continues to rack up penalties. Brady with 6 ”to play in the first half finds Brown, another former Pats, for a pass from one yard. It is worth 21-6 in the interval. Three attempts thrown by Brady, dominant. 8 penalty for 95 yards from the Chiefs, out of control, with Mathieu unleashed.

THE EXTENSION

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