And Tom Brady, after all.

This is all the pieces you have to find out about this yr’s sport so you’ll be able to immerse your self within the momentary phantasm that all the pieces is ok and the one factor to fret about is what potato chip advert will pop up subsequent.

Tremendous Bowl LV (that is 55 for you non-Romans) will kick off at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 7.

It will likely be broadcast stay on CBS. It’s also possible to stream the sport on CBSSports.com, the CBS Sports activities app, or different streaming units like Amazon Fireplace TV, Roku, Hulu and any machine that helps CBS All Entry.

The place is the Tremendous Bowl being performed?

This yr’s championship is being held in Tampa, Florida, at Raymond James Stadium, dwelling of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The stadium is often known as “Ray Jay,” and sources inform us followers truly do name it that! We thought it will be like “Hotlanta,” the place for those who truly stated it they’d snicker you out of the town.

What groups are enjoying within the Tremendous Bowl?

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will probably be enjoying the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in a garish red-on-red matchup that is certain to shave the highest layer of your cornea clear off. When you’ve got colorblind imaginative and prescient, this one might show troublesome. The sport will probably be historic as a result of it is the primary time a crew will probably be enjoying in its dwelling stadium for the Tremendous Bowl. (Tremendous Bowl host cities are determined years prematurely and don’t have anything to do with the precise destiny of the groups from a given season.)

Does the stadium have a ship in it?

It does! Nicely, technically it is a ship. (Technically technically it is a non-functioning duplicate attraction.) The pirate ship at Raymond James Stadium fires off cannons at any time when the Buccaneers do a very good job within the sport. Of the entire Florida sports activities issues, this appears like one of many Florida-iest. (Second to the beautifully deranged home run statue at Marlins Park in Miami, which was quickly eliminated however returned to the outfield final yr. Sure, the dinger fish is again!)

Do not the Tampa Bay Rays have a tank stuffed with precise rays of their baseball park? That additionally feels fairly Florida.

What gamers ought to I find out about?

One of many large storylines this yr will probably be of crabbed age and youth. They can’t play collectively. Youth is filled with pleasance. Age is filled with wheat grass and mindfulness incantations.

Within the position of crabbed age, we’ve Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady, who’s 43 (regular in human years, historic in soccer years). Youth will probably be performed by Patrick Mahomes, the 25-year-old quarterback of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Mahomes can be the man from the Allstate commercials, and Brady is the determine that looms on the foot of your mattress at any time when you will have an evening terror.

Wasn’t Tom Brady on the Patriots?

Shaggy dog story! Brady ended his historic run as Patriots QB final season, and then signed on with the Buccaneers. Oh, what amusing all of us had! Transferring to Florida? Typical retiree habits! It is not that the Buccaneers have been unhealthy, per se, however they weren’t the Patriots.

However identical to that, they’re headed to the Tremendous Bowl, and their New England expatriate seems like he is Benjamin Buttoning tougher than ever. Who’s laughing now? Not Tom Brady. That might disrupt his chi. The one individuals laughing are the parents that function these pirate ship cannons, and whoever thought up the unforgivable Bucs pun, “Tompa Bay.”

Are there another gamers I ought to find out about?

Don’t fret! Brady did not should make the transfer to Florida alone. The Tampa Bay brass gifted him an Emotional Assist Gronk. Rob Gronkowski, tight finish and longtime New England teammate of Brady’s, came out of retirement specifically to don the red and orange and take a shot at one other championship along with his buddy. Now THAT’s friendship.

Who’s going to win?

At present, Kansas Metropolis is favored by most books, however solely by about three factors — one measly area purpose. So it is sure to be a good matchup. (In fact, when you say that, a blowout is all however ensured.)

What is the take care of the Tremendous Bowl halftime present?

What if The Weeknd's Super Bowl halftime show set just looked like a postgame press conference dais?

The Weeknd will probably be headlining the halftime present, and there is all types of hypothesis over what the vibe of the occasion will probably be. In spite of everything, the stadium can have solely about 25,000 individuals in it because of the pandemic, and there most likely will not be any screaming and carrying on.

A PepsiCo advertising official guarantees the present will probably be “unlike anything we’ve seen on the halftime show before.” Will the Weeknd sit cross-legged and bust out an acoustic set? Will he do interpretive dance? Possibly it is going to be like a “Tremendous Bowl Dwelling Companion.” The anticipation is almost insufferable.

How concerning the adverts?

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OK, who ought to I root for?

Soccer followers are positively trying ahead to this matchup. Younger buck towards outdated Buc! Tremendous Bowl Champion towards, properly, Tremendous Bowl Champion! There’s actually no solution to lose. That is one other enjoyable truth to ruminate on: This Tremendous Bowl pits the final two Tremendous Bowl Champions collectively. So irrespective of who wins, the victor will probably be racking up a number of rings, and the loser can go hug their most up-to-date Lombardi Trophy for consolation.

I am . However I do not wish to simply have an interest, I wish to be ENAMORED. Which crew’s emblem is extra prone to seduce me with a single look?

Undoubtedly Tampa Bay. No, not the cranium holding the soccer! (Until you are into that.) It is Bucco Bruce, the outdated Tampa Bay emblem, that may actually get you.