TAMPA, Florida – Tom Brady is not yet off the flashlight.
Brady, the 43-year-old defender who went to Tampa Bay for the final chapter of a career in the Hall of Fame, the first vote, proved to be the most dominant defender in the league, throwing for 201 yards and three touchdowns and winning the fifth. Super Bowl MVP and seventh ring, while the Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 for their first Super Bowl victory of 2003.
With the win, Brady has more Super Bowl titles (7) than any franchise in NFL history, surpassing the six won by the Steelers and Patriots. Brady also made history with the fifth MVP award, becoming the only player with five. Joe Montana is second with three.
“This team is the world champion forever, you can’t take us from us,” Brady said after the match.
When asked if he would return next season, he added, “We’re back.”
Brady joked with receiver General Tyreek Hill in July that he would go to the seventh ring after Hill promised a Chiefs dynasty with seven of his own. With the victory, Brady is 3-2 against Patrick Mahomes. His first two victories came in games in which he built a double-digit advantage in half and avoided the angry returns of the Chiefs.
This time, however, he will not return.
It would only be Brady and the talented teammates he brought to Tampa Bay when he went south to prove that he is more than just a Bill Belichick dynasty play. Winning shows that he is the kind of transcendent player who does not need a certain organization to build a dynasty. He can do it anytime, anywhere, in any uniform.
He did it on Sunday with Rob Gronkowski – a longtime Patriots teammate he persuaded to come out of retirement with promises of sunshine and another Super Bowl ring – and Leonard Fournette, whom he persuaded to sign in Tampa Bay. after the former first-rounder was cut by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
And he did it with Antonio Brown, the troubled receiver, who wanted another shot in the NFL and was sheltered by a defender who still wanted talent in an offense that had almost everything.
Gronkowski followed his friend to Florida and was rewarded with the first two touchdowns of the evening. His pair of scores, one at an option 8 yards from the goal line and the other a 17-yard reception, pushed the buccaneers so much in front of the bosses that the Kansas City counters were not enough.
“It’s great to see great players playing great games,” Brady said. “I just love what they did, what they added to the team. Gronk is an incredible player, teammate, talent, work ethic, commitment. And AB is just, since he got here, he’s done everything right. impressed by him Proud of him.
“It takes a lot of people to get to this point and we all have excellent support systems and I think everyone should celebrate them tonight.”
In a game considered to be changing the guard between Brady, the original GOAT, and Mahomes, the future GOAT, the veteran defender was lethal, while effectively choosing to defend the bosses. He completed 10 of 13 passes for 90 yards with three touchdowns in the first half, two for Gronkowski and one for Brown with less than a minute to go before the break.
In the third quarter, Brady completed just 4 of 6 attempts for 55 yards, but his 25-yard completion to Gronkowski in the third quarter set a 27-meter Fournette touchdown a piece later.
While Tampa Bay’s young and tenacious defense beat Muhammad, the Buccaneers’ offensive line kept Brady almost unscathed in his pocket. The Chiefs’ defensive end, Frank Clark, recorded Brady’s only sack, which came in the first quarter.
Although the young superstar’s defenders are about to take over the league, Brady defied the trend during the regular season and didn’t stop until he captured his seventh Super Bowl ring in his new home stadium, surrounded by fans who hugged. the defender as their own.