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Green Bay (AP) - Quarterback legend Tom Brady has for the tenth time in his career the chance to win the Super Bowl and meets defending champion Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.

For the first time Brady is competing with a team other than the New England Patriots - and for the first time in NFL history there will be a home advantage at the Super Bowl.

Ten months after announcing his move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Brady led his new team to a 31:26 on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.

On February 7th (local time) the Chiefs now ask for a duel, who won against the Buffalo Bills with a sovereign 38:24.

The Super Bowl will be played at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium.

There has never been a home team involved.

"Whenever you can be the first to do something, it's usually something cool," said Brady, looking forward to the time until the kick-off on the German night on February 8th (0.30 a.m. CET).

"It will be two exciting weeks."

With six Super Bowl wins, Brady is already the record holder in the NFL.

He won all titles in the 20 years with the Patriots, from which he said goodbye in March 2020.

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Brady was also responsible for the fact that the game against the favored Packers around quarterback Aaron Rodgers was still exciting despite being 18 points ahead.

After a routine and strong performance in the first half, he made three interceptions in the second half.

All three resulted in points for the Packers.

Such a series of failures has only happened once before in Brady's long career.

But the Packers also made mistakes.

After the touchdown to 28:23 in the third quarter, they tried to shorten the gap with two extra points instead of one, but the German-American pass recipient Equanimeous St. Brown could not hold the ball thrown by Rodgers in the end zone.

A little later, coach Matt LaFleur decided on a field goal instead of trusting Rodgers for a touchdown pass on a fourth attempt eight yards from the end zone.

While the frustrated Rodgers described his future with the Packers as "uncertain" after the game, Brady's impressive career is supplemented by another chapter entitled Super Bowl.

The best possible opponent awaits him with the Chiefs.

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