After an impressive performance, Tom Brady can now add Super Bowl LV MVP to his resume, among his many other achievements.
On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, to earn the Lombardi Trophy. Brady led the way for Tampa Bay’s offense, helping the team earn a 31-9 victory.
Accepting the honor on the podium — where he was joined by his three children, Jack, Benjamin and Vivian — Brady remarked to the smaller-then-usual crowd due to COVID precautions, “How ’bout that?”
“I’m so proud of all these guys out here,” he said of his teammates. “We had a rough month of November … we came together at the right time. I think we knew this was gonna happen tonight, didn’t we?”
He also told the crowd, “This team is world champions forever, you can’t take it away from us.”
Brady also promised that he wouldn’t be retiring any time soon, assuring, “We’re coming back.”
Super Bowl LV was one of the most highly-anticipated events of the past year, which saw the country devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. The game pitted Brady against Patrick Mahomes, one of the most gifted quarterbacks in the league. Both quarterbacks have won a Super Bowl in the last two years (Brady in 2019 and Mahomes in 2020).
Brady has appeared in 10 Super Bowls throughout his career and secured his seventh Super Bowl win at Super Bowl LV.
Canadian singer The Weeknd performed during the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show on Sunday, and because of the coronavirus pandemic, the NFL capped attendance at Raymond James Stadium.
The change was to allow fans enough space to socially distance themselves from each other in seating pods. Of those allowed inside, 7,500 were vaccinated healthcare workers who were gifted free tickets from the league. The other 14,500 were paying fans selected in a lottery.
