SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) This Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will face the Kansas City Chiefs in Tampa, Florida at the 55th Super Bowl.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be just the third team to ever appear in a Super Bowl in their home region. The other two were the the Los Angeles Rams who appeared in the 1980 Super Bowl in the Rose Bowl, and the San Francisco 49ers who appeared in the 1985 Super Bowl at the old Stanford Stadium.
When the Red and Gold won in 1985, it was its second win in three years -and the first time the Bay Area hosted a Super Bowl championship game which was at Stanford. The Niners won 38 to 16 against the Miami Dolphins.
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TAMPA, Fla (Reuters) – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are making the most of their hometown advantage in the run-up to Sunday’s Super Bowl, settling into a routine after a chaotic National Football League (NFL) season where virtually nothing felt like business as usual.
After numerous delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but no outright cancellations, the NFL is barreling toward its season finale with the Bucs taking on the Kansas City Chiefs at home – the first time in the Super Bowl’s 55-year history that a team has competed in the championship in their own stadium.
Oddsmakers on Sunday established the defending NFL champion Kansas City Chiefs as the favorites for Super Bowl LV in Tampa on Feb. 7 despite the presence of six time-Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers playing the game in their home stadium. The Chiefs, who defeated the San Francisco 49ers a year ago in Super Bowl LIV, were made favorite by anywhere from 3 points to 3.5 points by most sportsbook operators. The over/under on the game was set at 57 or 57.5. Brady, 43, the future Hall of Fame quarterback who joined Tampa Bay after 20 seasons with New England Patriots an NFL record for the longest time playing quarterback for one franchise – led the Buccaneers to a 31-26 win on the road Sunday over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship game. The Chiefs beat the Buffalo Bills at home, 38-24, in the