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Super Bowl Bound: Bucs Head Home To Make History

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the first team to play the Super Bowl in their home stadium. See all the game highlights at buccaneers.com.

D'Ann Lawrence White, Patch Staff

Posted Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 6:20 pm ET|Updated Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:14 am ET

TAMPA, FL — After defeating the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in the 2020 NFC Championship Game, the Buccaneers will meet the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV on Feb. 7 in their own home stadium, Raymond James Stadium.

The Bucs defeated the Packers, 31-26, Sunday afternoon.

Tampa Bay will be the first team ever to battle for the Lombardi Trophy on their own home field, according to Buccaneers senior editor Scott Smith.

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The Buccaneers won the NFC Championship for the second time in franchise history, joining the 2002 team that went on to beat the Oakland Raiders, 48-21, in Super Bowl XXXVII. This marks the second time in a row that Tampa Bay has won the conference title game on the road; the 2002 team defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10, in the final game played at Veteran's Stadium.

The Buccaneers also made it to the NFC Championship Game in 1979 and 1999, losing to the Rams on both occasions.

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With Sunday's victory in Green Bay, the Bucs won the championship game after three road games against Washington, New Orleans and Green Bay.

Only three other teams have done that in the Super Bowl era: the 1985 New England Patriots, the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers and the 2007 New York Giants. Three of those four teams, excluding the Patriots, went on to win the Super Bowl.

Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady will be playing in his NFL-record 10th Super Bowl. He will also have a chance to extend his own record with a seventh Super Bowl championship ring.

If he and the Buccaneers capture that ring, Brady would join Peyton Manning as the only two quarterbacks in league history to win Super Bowls with two different teams.