Super Bowl LV Prediction

Bryan Eglesia
2 min readFeb 6, 2021

We are just over 24 hours until the biggest game of the season in the National Football league: the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl LV, 55, features a matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in Tampa Bay, Florida. This Super Bowl will be nothing like people have ever witnessed. Super Bowl LV will be the most unusual Super Bowl in NFL history.

Due to all the change, uncertainty, and disarray during this pandemic, organizations all over the world have had to adjust to life in the new world. There will not be 75,000 screaming fans in attendance at Raymond J. Stadium on February 7th. No large crowds of people will be gathering in one place to watch the game.

With all the rules, regulations, and protocols set by the United States government, the NFL, shockingly, somehow was able to complete a full season of games.

The NFL is truly a stubborn behemoth, completing a full season, despite COVID-19 issues, playing games on Tuesday afternoons and Friday evenings, but not even the NFL can hide from COVID-19.

Multiple reports have shown that two players on the Chiefs, Center Daniel Kilgore and Wide Receiver Demarcus Robinson, tested positive for COVID-19, and were put on the COVID-19 watch list.

Reports show that they went to a barbershop together, days before the game, and contracted symptoms of COVID-19 after getting a hair cut.

Kilgore and Robinson risked their chance of being able to play in the biggest game of their careers. Players dream about playing in the Super Bowl, players throughout all levels of the game, and Kilgore and Robinson risked it all for a measly haircut.

NFL teams don’t like to have any distractions in their organization, on and off the field, but this is not the only distraction regarding the Chiefs too. They’ve had some major injury issues too.

Starting Chief’s offensive tackles, Eric Fisher and Mitchell Schwarts, are out with injuries. Kansas City will have to go with back up offensive linemen while going against one of the best defensive-front seven units in the NFL with the Buccaneers.

The chiefs have a lot of unwarranted distractions, on and off the field, that can hinder a team during the playoffs. All the distractions will be too much for the Chiefs to overcome.

I have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers winning the Super Bowl 35–30.

Tom Brady and the Bucs will complete the dream season and hoist the Lombardi on their home field for the first time in NFL history. Brady will win his seventh Super Bowl, 5th Super Bowl MVP, and solidify himself as the Greatest Quarterback of all time in NFL history.

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