The Kansas City Chiefs cut into their Super Bowl deficit after the half with a field goal, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers responded with a 74-yard drive that ended in a Leonard Fournette 27-yard touchdown.

The Buccaneers drove down the field with ease, and after a Rob Gronkowski 25-yard reception, Fournette took the handoff and bounced outside for the first rushing score of the game as the Bucs jumped out to a 28-9 lead in the third quarter.

Fournette has run the ball well all game, totaling 64 yards on 10 carries as the Buccaneers look to shut the door on Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.

Brady was efficient like he has been all game long, and the Chiefs defense needs to step up big time if they want to have a shot at repeating as champions against the Buccaneers.

The lead keeps getting bigger and bigger for Bruce Arians' team. The Buccaneers' coach said after halftime that the magic number was 40 points, and they are only a couple of scores away from that mark, up 31-9 late in the third quarter.

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Graham Barton (Duke), Junior Colson (Michigan), and MarShawn Lloyd (USC) around a Tampa Bay Buccaneers logo and a 2024 NFL draft background.

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Brady is 19 of 23 for 180 yards and three touchdowns with no turnovers, and Gronkowski has a pair of touchdowns in his best game of the season for the Buccaneers, on the biggest stage of them all.

Brady seeks that improbably seventh Lombardi Trophy and first with the Bucs, and as the game goes on, it seems to be getting more and more realistic for the Buccaneers to win their first title since 2003.

The Buccaneers are playing the first Super Bowl ever in which one team is playing the game in its regular-season home stadium. Though the actual in-house attendance is very low (under 23,000 fans) due to pandemic restrictions, one could not have imagined this game going any better for the Bucs if they had been playing in front of a packed house.