TAMPA, Fla. -- There will be no NFC Championship Game in Tampa next week, and there will be no shot at a repeat Super Bowl for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as they suffered a heartbreaking loss late after scoring 24 straight points to knot the score at 27 with 42 seconds left.
But the Bucs’ quest to “go for two,” as coach Bruce Arians called it, for an eighth ring for quarterback Tom Brady and for a second boat parade along the Hillsborough River, has fallen short with a 30-27 defeat to the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC divisional round Sunday.