The 55th edition of the NFL Super Bowl took place on the night between Sunday and Monday in Tampa, Florida. The home team, Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers - the first to play the Super Bowl in their stadium - beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9, who were winners last year and considered favorites. For the Buccaneers - owned by the Glazer family, the same that controls Manchester United - it is the second NFL title. For their quarterback Tom Brady - already the most successful player in American football - it is the seventh victory in ten Super Bowls played in his career: he obtained it at the age of 43 and in his first season with the Buccaneers, the team that led to the playoffs after thirteen years and in the final after eighteen.
The expected confrontation between the two quarterbacks Brady
and Patrick Mahomes, with the latter younger than eighteen and considered the
symbol of a new generation, was won by Brady, the most experienced. Thanks to
his throws, the Buccaneers have made four touchdowns, three of which with Rob
Gronkowski and Antonio Brown, two players wanted in Tampa Bay by Brady, and
both of his former teammates in the New England Patriots.
Gronkowski had retired from football after
winning the 2018 Super Bowl and
ended up briefly in WWE wrestling. Brown, on the other hand, after being kicked
out of the Oakland Riders for unprofessional conduct, had received a suspension
from the NFL for involvement in two sexual harassment cases, in which the
Patriots had decided to tear up his contract within weeks of hiring. . Brown
had returned to play at Tampa Bay only in the middle of this last season.
The game was played at Raymond
James Stadium in Tampa in the presence of 25,000 spectators, 7,500 of whom
vaccinated health workers, in as many silhouettes of fans distributed in the
stands to fill the empty spaces. It was preceded by a speech by US President
Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, who invited everyone to respect the
contagion prevention measures, and by a poem by Amanda Gorman, a poet who became
famous on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of Biden.