Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes will face each other at the Super Bowl LV on February 7, after leading their teams to victory on Sunday in the championship.
Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers surprised the exciting Green Bay Packers by 31-26 in the NFC championship, while the Kansas City Chiefs of Mahomes defeated the Buffalo Bills 38-24 in the AFC championship.
And given the 18-year age difference between two-star defenders, fans are thrilled by the idea of Brady, 43, facing Mahomes, 25, in Tampa Bay, in two weeks.
Some compared them to Yoda’s two editions of the Star Wars films and the Mandelorian TV series.
Others tweeted photos announcing the two titans’ confrontation with images of two goats – suggesting that Brady and Mahomes are two of the greatest players of all time – while others compared him to a young Kobe Bryant
facing an older Michael Jordan.
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Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and now CBS commentator Tony Romo
described as an “all-time showdown” as well as comparing it to “LeBron and Jordan playing in the NBA finals”.
It will also be the
first always Super Bowl clash between the winning quarterbacks of the previous two Super Bowls.
By winning on Sunday, Brady advanced to his 10th Super Bowl – nine with the New England Patriots and now one with the Buccaneers, after signing with them before this season.
And as he did the last time he came to the big game in 2019, he celebrated in style with his longtime Patriots teammate Rob Gronkowski, who also moved to Tampa Bay before this season.
How Brady helped transform the Buccaneers was remarkable, taking the team to the Super Bowl when last year they didn’t even make it to the playoffs.
For Mahomes, on the other hand, his stock is only rising.
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He will be playing in his second consecutive Super Bowl, having won last year and
joined Kurt Warner, Brady and Russell Wilson were the only defenders to reach the Super Bowl twice in their first four seasons in the NFL, according to NFL Research.
NBA five-time All-Star Damian Lillard even compared Mahomes’ ability to that of Steph Curry on Instagram.
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