
30.4, 16.4, and the average margin of victory, 14 points. The median score for the winners of the 52 Super Bowls is 30.5 points, for the losers, it's 17 points, and the median margin of victory is 12 points. So what can we learn from the small dataset of 52 Super Bowls? Let's first look at scoring. Over those 52 seasons, rules have changed, strategies have evolved, players have gotten faster and stronger, and salaries have gone up a lot. At the time of this recording, there had been 52 Super Bowls. 256 regular season NFL games, 10 playoff games, all lead to one single championship game, the Super Bowl, a massive television event and a nationwide party, complete with food, drinks, gambling, and usually, a musical halftime show. That's the number of games that take us to the Super Bowl. He led the NFL in the regular season with 47% of his third-down passes going for first downs.īutker also connected from 49 and 34 yards in the first half and has made all six attempts this season from at least 50 yards.- 256, 10, and one. Mahomes is 0 for 6 passing on third down in the game with Kansas City’s only conversion coming on his run. The long kick came after Patrick Mahomes couldn’t connect with Travis Kelce on third and 8. Harrison Butker kicked a 52-yard field goal to cut Tampa Bay’s lead to 21-9. Defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo walked over to an irate Mathieu on the bench and spoke to the safety briefly.ģQ, 11:41 - The Kansas City Chiefs got another field goal to start the second half but are still seeking their first touchdown of the Super Bowl. When Mathieu got called for interfering with Evans in the end zone, Brady hit Antonio Brown on the next play with 6 seconds left to give Tampa Bay a 21-6 lead at halftime.Īfter the score Mathieu and Brady jawed at each other and Mathieu was whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Brady threw the TD pass on the next play. The drive was extended again when Antonio Hamilton lined up offside on a field goal. The latest TD came after a potential interception was wiped out by a holding call on Charvarius Ward.

The two combined on their 13th career playoff touchdown in the first quarter that broke the record for most playoff TD passes for a duo that had been held by Joe Montana and Jerry Rice.

The Buccaneers punted on their first two possessions before Brady engineered an eight-play, 75-yard drive.ĢQ, 6:05 - Brady and Gronkowski have connected on another TD pass.īrady’s second touchdown pass to Gronkowski in the first half gave the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a 14-3 lead over the Kansas City Chiefs in the second quarter of the Super Bowl. That came on a field goal in the Patriots’ 41-33 loss to the Eagles in Super Bowl 52. That breaks the record they shared with Jerry Rice and Joe Montana.īrady’s nine Super Bowl teams in New England produced just three points total in the first quarter. It was the 13th time Brady and Gronk have hooked up for a postseason touchdown. 1Q, 0:37 - Brady has his first touchdown pass in the first quarter in his 10 career Super Bowls.īrady hooked up with former Patriots teammate Gronkowski for an 8-yard touchdown to put Tampa Bay up 7-3 over the Kansas City Chiefs with 37 seconds left in the first quarter.
