Direct.That was the Buccaneers-Chiefs, minute by minute
Performance: Miley Cyrus steals The Weeknd's wallet at the Super Bowl
Protagonist: Rob Gronkowski, The Endless Giant's Party
The best scene in any good robbery movie is the moment in which the leader, usually a legal guy who is pushed by circumstances to crime, decides that he is going to strike one last blow and rallies the gang, taking the apparent one by one I withdraw his old colleagues.
Last spring,
Tom Brady
, a 43-year-old man who should be in his native California drinking daiquiris but for some reason continues to win
Super Bowls
, caused an earthquake never seen in the NFL by leaving the New England Patriots, the team with him. who had dominated the league for 20 years, and signed for a
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
who hadn't even played the
playoffs
.
With that step taken, he picked up the phone.
The other side answered
Rob Gronkowski
, the gentle giant with the shattered back, the old crony who won three titles in Boston and had been retired for a year, partying in Florida.
"Come".
And Gronko went.
Then he called
Antonio Brown
, the best receiver of the past decade, but also a troublesome guy who, based on extra-sports scandals, seemed out of the NFL forever, in fact he was suspended until the middle of the year.
But Brady had a plan: "Come."
And Antonio went.
Yesterday, before the break, Brady had given two
touchdown
passes
to Gronkowski and another to Brown.
Tampa went to the locker room winning 21-6 and the rest is history.
Sorry, the rest is history.
The Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers are the two teams with the most championships in their windows: six.
After demolishing the favorites and reigning champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9, Tom Brady has already won seven.
In a sport whose active life expectancy is short and in which everything is organized for maximum equality, Brady's case does not make sense.
No sense.
It has been a while since he has competed with Peyton Manning, Joe Montana or Aaron Rodgers for being the best quarterback in history.
No, his league is another.
That of
Michael Jordan
, that of
Muhammad Ali
, of
Usain Bolt
.
The one of the universal legends.
In his way was
Patrick Mahomes
, the chosen one, the only one who allows us to imagine that Brady's atrocity is repeatable, at least that someone can approach.
Don't feel sorry for him.
He is 25 years old, already a ring and even in a game like this, in which he was under permanent siege by a magnificent defense that devoured his battered and catastrophic offensive line (the five gentlemen, let's say, broad who are in front of the
quarterback
to protect him
), he left four or five passes that are physically impossible for a human.
But in his three years as a starter, it's not entirely clear that Mahomes is.
In this Super Bowl his magic came to nothing, surprisingly betrayed by his best partners,
Travis Kelce
and
Tyreek Hil
l, two superstars whose hands were suddenly smeared with butter and dropped several simple balls that, perhaps, maybe, who knows, they could have triggered a reaction.
There was not.
They will have more opportunities.
Even on his worst day, Mahomes is a prodigy.
The beating was such that it blurred the details.
The excess of avoidable fouls (of making and whistling) in the first half, the pioneer
Sarah Thomas
being the first woman to referee a Super Bowl, the great second half of
Leonard Fournette
, another disinherited who joined the Brady band in looking for redemption and glory and found it handfuls.
The break concert did not even detract from the spotlight.
This time we did not enjoy the miracle of
Prince
, the barbarity of
Beyoncé
, the glitter of
Jennifer Lopez
and
Shakira
or the mythical drunken sharks of
Katy Perry
.
Nothing, just an inconsequential performance by
The Weeknd
, reminding us that, in these dark times, every weekend is a bloody Monday.
The last two quarters were a placid road to Tom Brady's coronation.
The seventh ascension of the myth that made a pact with the devil and does not age.
A king whose kingdom is no longer of this world.
And next year it comes back.
The fucking psycho is back.
Greatness borders insanity and he is the greatest.
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