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The Super Bowl and the Australian Open Day 1 were running concurrently so I only saw bits and pieces of the football game. I saw Tampa Bay’s second touchdown, where Tom Brady passed to Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski and I briefly enjoyed the collective tears of Patriots fans. While Brady is MAGA and I’ll never accept him or even like him because of that alone, I was… surprised that Brady managed to bounce back with Tampa Bay so thoroughly, make it to the Super Bowl and f–king win the thing for his seventh Super Bowl ring. Brady has broken all kinds of records and I don’t know anything about football, so I won’t even try to parse it. I do think there’s probably a case to be made that Brady is the GOAT in football. But… it’s not really comparable to other sports. At least not while Simone Biles and Serena Williams exist.

So, yeah, the Tampa Bay (“Tompa Bay”) Buccaneers absolutely routed the Kansas City Chiefs. On my TL, it seemed like people kind of hated the game and found it really dull because it was so lopsided? And because the Chiefs couldn’t get their acts together. And because the refs were apparently making every call to benefit Brady and the Bucs.

Tom’s wife Gisele Bundchen walked onto the field (with her mask pulled down, ugh) and gave her husband a kiss and all of that. I do think Gisele is probably much happier in Florida, don’t you think? And Tom has always been a Florida Man at heart. Some funny tweets:

If you have to have the ref on your team is that really winning!!! @giseleofficial lol ??????????

— Randi Mahomes (@tootgail) February 8, 2021

Funny how we’re all supposed to forget Tom Brady’s politics but not Kap’s. ?

— Margaret Thornton (@MaggieEThornton) February 7, 2021

Tom Brady doesn’t even know they put End Racism on the back of his helmet

— ¯_(?)_/¯ (@ijustbIuemyself) February 8, 2021

Tom Brady when he saw his family ??

(via @NFLUpOfficial)pic.twitter.com/6b9xgTgOKP

— ESPN (@espn) February 8, 2021

Patriots fans watching Gronk and Brady do work pic.twitter.com/4n4BwzQnwV

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 8, 2021

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