Tampa Bay won the second Super Bowl in its history by dethroning Kansas City (31-9), Sunday, February 7 in Tampa, Florida, where quarterback Tom Brady became a little more legendary in American football with a 7th coronation. in ten finals.
The Buccaneers, already winners in 2003, were the very first team to play a Super Bowl at home, at Raymond James Stadium, filled with some 25,000 spectators allowed to attend this global event, despite the coronavirus pandemic raging in the United States. United States.
Most were logically committed to their cause, but all bowed to the exceptional performance of Brady, who accumulates records of all kinds at 43 and has shown that he is still not satisfied.
A final marked by the performance of Tom Brady
The quarterback, who many mistakenly thought that the pantagruelic record, built for twenty years in the jersey of the New England Patriots (six coronations), could not grow bigger with Tampa Bay, managed three touchdowns on the throws in the first period that killed all suspense, facing the Chiefs never entered their game.
His arm, which never trembled, found Rob Gronkowski twice in the first and second quarters.
And Patriots fans, who did not qualify for the play-offs this season, to see, certainly depressed in front of their television, that the connection still worked wonderfully between the quarterback and the receiver who had given them three Super Bowls (2015 , 2017, 2019).
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Just before the break, he punished the Kansas City players, authors of an eighth penalty (95 yards in total), by sending the leather into the hands of Antonio Brown to accentuate the lead of his team (21 -6).
Opposite, Patrick Mahomes, 18 years his junior, called to follow in his footsteps on the road to a Pantheon of which only Brady holds the keys, could not find the solution in the face of an extremely dissuasive Florida defense.
His rare shots hitting their mark only brought the Chiefs close enough to register three shots on goal.
The Weeknd, halftime star
After halftime, whose show was provided by pop singer The Weeknd and his unmissable hit "Blinding Lights", the light of the Super Bowl continued to blind Kansas City and its quarterback, intercepted in the 3rd quarter. after Leonard Fournette entered the Buccaneers' 4th touchdown (28-9) in the race.
Last year, the Chiefs were led by ten points at the start of the last quarter before Mahomes managed to reverse the situation (31-20).
This time there was no comeback, his "desperado" throws never hit the mark in the money-time and he was intercepted a second time.
The future, however, still belongs to this talented player.
But this first setback in a final, he concedes it flat against the greatest player of all time, who can now boast of having single-handedly lifted more Vince-Lombardi trophies than any team (New England and Pittsburgh were six-time champions).
Simply stratospheric.
The worst for those who would have the presumptuous idea of following in his footsteps?
He intends to do even better, having repeated that he would see himself continuing to play at least until the age of 45
With AFP
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