HISTORY WILL SUGGEST that Tom Brady was the story of Super Bowl LV, but history will lie. The man who won his seventh ring and his fifth Super Bowl MVP was a story, to be sure, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers became the first NFL team to win a championship in its own stadium because of everything that swirled around him.
There were two enduring images of a surprisingly noncompetitive Super Bowl. The first was Brady challenging Tyrann Mathieu, face-to-face and scream for scream, a 43-year-old playing to prove everything once more, always as if this time might be the last time.