The Tampa Bay Buccaneers face the Kansas City Chiefs in their own stadium in the Super Bowl.
In the largest sporting event in the world, there is also a generation duel between Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Kansas City Chiefs -: - (- :-), Monday, 12:30 am
Super Bowl: The Florida pirates receive the defending champion from Kansas.
Generational duel: NFL legend Tom Brady meets his legitimate successor Patrick Mahomes.
Tampa Bay - It's the biggest sporting event of the year.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers face the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
Tom Brady, the most successful player of all time, challenges defending champion Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback in American football.
Super Bowl in the live ticker: Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the home final in front of 25,000 spectators
This year is a lot different.
The big football party is canceled.
For the first time, the Super Bowl will only see 25,000 live.
Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay on Florida's Gulf Coast will only be a third full - after all.
The National Football League has set an example in times of the pandemic and allows 7500 vaccinated nurses free entry as a "thank you".
At halftime there will be another spectacular show with music.
Just that year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers made it into the Super Bowl led by quarterback Tom Brady.
As the first team ever, the Bucs will have the honor to play part of the final at home.
FC Bayern can tell you a thing or two about the fact that a so-called “final at home” doesn't always have to be an advantage.
Super Bowl in the live ticker: Tom Brady just can't get enough
The Bucs won the title in their first and so far only participation 18 years ago.
In the final against the favored Kansas City Chiefs, it will depend on Brady as in the previous rounds.
The 43-year-old is not only the oldest player of all time in the Super Bowl, but also with six titles the most successful player who has ever played this game.
Brady, who everyone just reverently called "GOAT" - Greatest Of All Time, is competing in the Super Bowl for the tenth time.
Before the season started, after 20 years with the New England Patriots, he had set off on new shores in his old days.
Within a very short time he breathed a winning mentality into the Bucs and made their first playoff entry since 2007.
A German NFL star and former teammate is keeping his fingers crossed for Brady.
Brady just can't get enough of winning and wants his seventh Super Bowl ring.
"You never know when the moment will come because it is a contact sport," said Brady with a view to a possible end of his career, which according to his former rival Peyton Manning could not happen until the age of 70.
If, on the other hand, he stays healthy, he'll probably hang on for at least another season - and maybe even more.
One thing is essential for this: “I have to commit myself 100 percent so that I can continue.” In order to be well prepared for the finals, his family around his wife and model Gisele Bündchen is also away: “For twelve days I have an empty house. "
Super Bowl in the live ticker: Brady against Mahomes - generation duel electrified
In the Super Bowl there is now a quarterback duel with Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs.
The 25-year-old Texan hit the NFL like a bomb.
In his first year as a starter he was crowned MVP, the most valuable player in the league, with an incredible 50 touchdown passes.
In the second, he took it easy, instead won the title with Kansas City and was named Super Bowl MVP.
Mahomes' respect for Brady, 18 years his senior, seems limitless.
"If you're a young athlete and you don't look up to guys like Tom Brady, you're crazy," Mahomes said in awe.
Brady is the kind of greatness one strives for, the "GOAT", the greatest of all time.
So it comes to a duel of generations.
Mahomes will probably be the face of the league when the all-time winner stops.
"It's like LeBron James and Michael Jordan would play against each other in the NBA finals," said former quarterback and now TV expert Tony Romo.
This gigantic duel never happened in basketball.
For that reason alone, everyone is looking forward to the Super Bowl.
Many experts already see Mahomes as the Mini-GOAT, the designated successor to Brady.
In a direct duel between the two most talented quarterbacks in football history, it is 2-2.
Two months ago, Mahomes narrowly won the last generation duel with 27:24.
In January 2019, Brady Mahomes missed his first and to date only play-off bankruptcy when the Patriots prevailed in overtime in Kansas City.
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