With yet another Super Bowl victory, Tom Brady secured entry into the “7 Chip Club,” a place reserved for only the greatest athletes in sports history such as… Robert Horry? Yes, Horry is one of only nine players in NBA history to have won at least seven championships, and he’s the only player in that group who wasn’t a member […]

The road to Super Bowl 56 might run through Kansas City or Tampa Bay — again. While the Buccaneers handed the Chiefs a devastating 31-9 Super Bowl 55 loss, the two squads could have a future in Super Bowl 56, if oddsmakers are to be believed. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs open with the best odds to win next year’s Super Bowl […]

Editor’s note: Below is a letter to NFL fans from Commissioner Roger Goodell following the conclusion of Super Bowl LV: To Our Faithful Fans: With Super Bowl LV now in the history books, congratulations to the Buccaneers and their remarkable fans. What a spectacular game last night.    We are so grateful to our players, coaches, team personnel, and so many others […]

Moments after winning Super Bowl LV, Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers began thinking about a repeat. Brady is back for Year 2 in Tampa. Coach Bruce Arians didn’t retire. Rob Gronkowski, a free agent, suggested he’d like to return. The stalwart offensive line and key young pieces in the secondary remain intact. Defensive coordinator Todd Bowles and offensive […]

Leonard Fournette still thinks it’s crazy. He was cut by the Jacksonville Jaguars, who finished a league-worst 1-15, on Sept. 1. He signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, now the Super Bowl champions, less than a week later. Fournette’s regular-season load dropped from 22 touches per game in three Jacksonville seasons to 10 this year in Tampa. He wondered, at times: […]

Seven Super Bowl rings, each one sparkling as brightly as the next, now sit upon Tom Brady’s fingers, all won in greatly contrasting fashion. Here we take a look at how the GOAT secured his magnificent seven… New England Patriots 20-17 St Louis Rams Super Bowl XXXVI, New Orleans, 2002 Along with Sunday’s match-up with the Kansas City Chiefs, this […]

Bill Barnwell is a staff writer for ESPN.com. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers took something abstract and made it real. The much-ballyhooed game plan for what it would take to beat the Kansas City Chiefs was easy to write down and understand, but putting it into practice seemed virtually impossible for much of the 2020 NFL season. Outside of a shootout […]

Rob Gronkowski was in full Gronk mode Sunday night — beaming from his postgame podium, joking with teammates, laughing and patiently answering reporters' questions.  Fresh off a six-catch, 67-yard, two-touchdown night in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 31-9 thrashing of the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 55, his performance had just earned him a fourth championship ring. Yet a year earlier, he'd been […]

The 55 things we learned from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 31-9 Super Bowl 55 victory to conclude the 2020 NFL season: 1. Bucs QB Tom Brady extended his own record by earning his seventh Super Bowl ring. 2. No NFL franchise has won more than six Super Bowls, the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers tied for the lead … but […]

Tom Brady played in nine Super Bowls with the Patriots and won six of them. That was more than enough to make him NFL’s greatest quarterback of all time when he left them a year ago. So what does earning a seventh ring in his 10 career Super Bowl trips mean? Given he did it while leading a new team, […]