Tampa Bay Buccaneers will win!
Anika Nicoll, Web Editor
I think the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will win the Super Bowl this year. They are the first team to ever play a Super Bowl in their home stadium and I think that may give them a competitive advantage. I don’t know a whole lot about the players, but I am familiar with Tampa Bay’s quarterback Patrick Mahomes. However, the Buccaneers also have the famous Tom Brady as their quarterback. I think it will be an intense quarterback matchup resulting in a win from the Buccaneers.
Savanna Rynearson, Copy Editor
I was just going to choose who would win based off which mascot I liked best, but that backfired because they are both terrifying … so I’m going to base my decision off of the team colors. Red and black are my favorite colors, so I’m picking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the winner.
Angela Palermo, News Editor
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will win the Super Bowl because the stars aligned and said so. I’m placing my bets on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But really, I’ll be keeping an eye out for the halftime show with The Weeknd.
Carter Kolpitke, Opinion Editor
Kansas City: 27 | Tampa Bay: 31
I think the Buccaneers will win the Super Bowl and Tom Brady will announce his retirement during his MVP speech after the game. Buccaneers are going to dominate the first half, with the Chiefs trailing up until the third quarter. Chiefs will hold the lead until Brady throws the game winning touchdown in the bottom of the fourth.
Kansas City Chiefs will win!
Zack Kellog, Editor-In-Chief
Kansas City: 27 | Tampa Bay: 23
Patrick Mahomes, the NFL’s best quarterback, against the undisputed G.O.A.T. Tom Brady in Tampa Bay will be an instant classic. With absurd amounts of talent on both rosters, it will all come down to late in the 4th quarter, as it always does with Brady. But the Kansas City Chiefs and Mahomes will come out on top, becoming back-to-back champions and capping a strange NFL season with the franchise’s third Super Bowl.
Emily Pearce, LIFE Editor
Kansas City Chiefs start out the game strong until a linebacker from Tampa Bay Buccaneers tackles one of the Chiefs by the knees, and they fly five feet in the air until crashing a hard landing on the turf. The first strike is given three minutes in the game and Chiefs’ fans fill the stadium with boo’s. Referees pause the game and give a second strike to the Chiefs for poor sportsmanship, riling up the crowd more! Kansas City wins because there’s no place like home, even though they aren’t in Kansas.
Anteia McCollum, Sports Editor
It’s going to be a close game, for sure. With Tom Brady’s experience going up against the sheer offensive energy of the Chiefs, the level of competitiveness is going to be fired up among players, coaches and fans alike. The Chiefs will be able to out-compete the Buccaneers because Brady has a lot of haters. Let’s all be honest here though, the true winner is the halftime show headliner The Weeknd. The halftime show is what draws people who don’t even care about football.
Richard Pathomsiri, Photo Editor
Kansas City: 35 | Tampa Bay: 31
If I’m going to be honest, the Chiefs will win because they’re an offensive machine. They can consistently attack the Buccaneers, unlike other teams. But if I’m going to be biased, Tom Brady and the Buccaneers beat my Packers. There’s no way I will ever think they’ll win.
Cody Roberts, VN Manager
Buccaneers will win. Sure, Brady has been around the block, but Mahomes is young, energetic and quite frankly, I don’t want to see Brady get a seventh Super Bowl ring. Six is already irksome.
Stevie Carr, Creative Editor
The year was 2002. Tom Brady won the Super Bowl. Life was good. The year is 2021. Tom Brady won’t win the Super Bowl. Life is bland.
Brad Bruhn
I think that Tampa Bay is going to win. I feel that the NFL wants him to one more Superbowl before he retires.