Today, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers can reach their second ever Super Bowl with a victory over the Green Bay Packers in snowy Lambeau Field. A victory would be noteworthy in the fact that the Bucs will become the first team to play a Super Bowl in their home stadium. San Francisco played SB XIX in nearby Palo Alto, CA and the Rams played SB XIV in Pasadena; de facto home games but not quite their home stadium.
Also, with a win the Tampa Bay metro area will reach some elite company. It will become the first metro area since Boston in 2018-19 to play for three successive Major League (NHL, NBA, MLB, NFL) championships (Red Sox won the World Series, Patriots won the Super Bowl, Bruins lost the Stanley Cup Final), and the first since Philadelphia in 1980-81 to have three or more Major League teams in said market to have all their respective teams reach the championship game/round for that respective sport. The Lightning are the defending Stanley Cup Champions and the Rays are the defending American League Champions.
Krewe, destiny awaits...
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