TAMPA, Florida – Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady lured Rob Gronkowski out of a one-year retirement period and convinced the Bucs to take a chance in front of wide receiver Antonio Brown, who no longer had football a year.
Those two players were great for Brady in the first half of Super Bowl LV on Sunday, with Gronkowski catching two touchdown passes and Brown with a third to give the Bucs a 21-6 lead over the Kansas City Chiefs at the break.
Brown’s 1-yard touchdown came on an angled path, working against defensive end Tyrann Mathieu, 10 seconds into the half.
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In the first quarter, Brady connected with Gronk for the 13th postseason touchdown on an 8-yard pass, led by Joe Montana and Jerry Rice for the most postseason TDs of a QB receiver combo in NFL history. . It was also his first time in Brady’s 10 Super Bowls, when he scored a touchdown in the first quarter.
On the game, which gave the Bucs a 7-3 advantage, Gronkowski ran over the back of the team and entered the apartment. It was Gronkowski’s fourth career, receiving a touchdown in the Super Bowl, breaking a five-way tie for second place in Super Bowl history.
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Twice as beautiful 😁
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Beast mode.
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Now he’s just following Rice, who is eight.
Brady and Gronk will replicate that magic in the second trimester. The Bucs lined up for a 40-yard goal after stopping deep in Kansas City, but the Chiefs’ Antonio Hamilton jumped out of the game, giving the Bushmen a first down.
In the next play, Brady found Gronkowski for a 17-meter touchdown pass, with Gronk pretending to run to the corner of the end zone before turning inside and losing to L’Jarius Sneed, extending Bucs’ lead to 14-3.