Superbowl
And Tom Brady forever wins as Champion
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Quarterback Tom Brady wins the Superbowl for the seventh time. With the amazingly effortless 31-9 victory of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers over the Kansas City Chiefs, the 43-year-old playmaker continues to carve his own memorial.
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Tampa Bay with the trophy
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It’s a bit like “Groundhog Day”, this classic with Bill Murray, who as a weatherman experiences the same day over and over again in an endless loop. At least this is how it must feel for the rest of the National Football League (NFL) that a rain of confetti has poured down on Tom Brady on Monday night in Tampa, Florida. Brady celebrated his seventh title – and perhaps it was the most significant.
In 2020 Brady said goodbye to the New England Patriots after 20 years. At 43, as the oldest player in the league. In the midst of a pandemic that severely restricted how often you could train as a team. It didn’t matter: In the end Brady and the Buccaneers couldn’t be stopped, on Monday night they dismantled the title holder Kansas City Chiefs, 31: 9 in the 55th Superbowl. It was like a demonstration.
One of the most fascinating NFL professionals
Brady, that is the big difference to the last years of his work with the Patriots, did not even need to play outstanding – he threw for only 201 yards. But that was enough because the Buccaneers’ defense was so superior to the Chiefs, the most creative and explosive offensive department in the league around quarterback Patrick Mahomes, that it did not allow a single touchdown. Brady, on the other hand, threw three of them; two of them were caught by Rob Gronkowski, his old friend from their Patriots days, whom he had persuaded to resign last spring.
Rob Gronkowski, links, mit Tom Brady.
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Gronkowski is one of the most fascinating NFL professionals, he steadfastly refuses to grow up even at 31. A few years ago he organized a cruise to the Bahamas for his fans, during which the celebrations were so excessive that there was no second edition. After his resignation in 2019, he had passed the time with professional wrestling and an appearance in the American version of “The Masked Singer”. After a year of retirement, he decided the superbowl.
Brady reaches new heights with his triumph – in order to properly appreciate his unique career, superlatives are required, which have yet to be invented. Even Roger Federer was on the long list of well-wishers, he wrote on Twitter: “What an inspiring achievement”. It can possibly best be classified with this fact: The first Superbowl was held in 1967, no team has won the trophy more than six times. Brady is at seven of them. In terms of titles, he has now outstripped basketball icon Michael Jordan.
Brady keeps playing
It is Brady’s reward for his enormous ambition, for his discipline, his insatiable hunger for success, his hardships. He adheres to a rigid diet, rarely goes to bed after 8.30 p.m. and otherwise hardly seems to succumb to the temptations of life. Brady makes an exception, teammates vouch for that, when it comes to who can tumble down a beer fastest. He hates defeat so much that he has to be the best at it himself. From his time with the Patriots it is also said that it happened that he smashed his racket in anger when he lost a game of table tennis in the cabin.
Brady is gluttonous, he lives on success – and never gets enough. It would be easy for him now to ride into the sunset, in Florida these are especially beautiful. There is no more kitschy, more dignified career end point than winning the superbowl. But while the confetti was raining down on him on the podium, Brady announced that he would continue playing. “Groundhog Day” is not over for the pitiful competition in the NFL.
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