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Super Bowl LV is Feb. 7 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m.

This is the 17th time the Super Bowl has been played in Florida, the most of any state.

Well, definitely not the Washington Football Team.

The Kansas City Chiefs are facing off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Patrick Mahomes will lead the Chiefs.

Tom Brady will lead the Buccaneers.

It’s Brady’s 10th trip to the NFL title round 鈥� making him one of the only players in the four major North American sports leagues to do that in more than 30 years. It’s also the first time the QB will be playing the Super Bowl in their home stadium.

Brady and LeBron James are the first players to make it to the title round for a 10th time since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did it in his final season in the NBA, in 1989.

A win on Sunday would be Brady鈥檚 seventh championship to go along with his three regular season MVP awards, a feat only Celtics legend Bill Russell, Yankees icons Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio have achieved in the four major sports leagues.

Apropos of nothing, it should be noted that Mahomes’ mother is not a fan of people shortening his name to “Pat.”

If this announcer doesn鈥檛 stop calling my son Pat.. ugh i may scream… lol

— Randi Mahomes (@tootgail)

Super Bowl LV will be broadcast on CBS (normally Ch. 2, check your grid for the HD channel) for the 21st time. You can listen on Westwood One (660 AM, 101.9 FM).

It will also be streamed online through and the聽, as well as a subscription.

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Jim Nantz will be in the booth for CBS. It’s his eighth Super Bowl.

Former Dallas Cowboys star Tony Romo has been tapped to join Nantz.

Grammy-nominated artists Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church will perform the national anthem ahead of the big game. Grammy-award winner H.E.R. is also slated to sing America the Beautiful.

Poet Amanda Gorman, who stole the show at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will also recite a poem during the pregame ceremony.

The Weeknd will headline this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.

He said he鈥檚 humbled by the opportunity.

鈥淲e all grow up watching the world鈥檚 biggest acts playing the Super Bowl and one can only dream of being in that position,鈥� the singer said in a statement. 鈥淚鈥檓 humbled, honored and ecstatic to be the center of that infamous stage.鈥�

The Weeknd broke through into the mainstream with his smash hit 鈥淐an鈥檛 Feel My Face鈥� that was featured on his second studio album, 鈥淏eauty Behind the Madness,鈥� which topped the Billboard 200 in 2015 and won a Grammy. He鈥檚 had three other chart-topping albums including his recent offering 鈥淎fter Hours,鈥� which was released in March.

He joins a list of celebrated musicians who have played during Super Bowl halftime shows, including Madonna, Beyonc茅, Coldplay, Katy Perry, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson and last year鈥檚 duo of Shakira and Jennifer Lopez.

There are always concerns about the coronavirus.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has said he doesn’t want the Super Bowl to turn into a super spreader event.

When it comes to Super Bowl parties during the pandemic, people should 鈥渏ust lay low and cool it,” he said.

鈥淵ou don鈥檛 want parties with people that you haven鈥檛 had much contact with,鈥� Fauci told NBC鈥檚 鈥淭oday鈥� show. 鈥淵ou just don鈥檛 know if they鈥檙e infected, so, as difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it.鈥�

The NFL has capped game attendance at 22,000 people because of the pandemic and citywide coronavirus mandates.

LeSean McCoy is a good person to ask. He spent last season with the Chiefs and Mahomes, helping them win the Super Bowl, then signed with Brady鈥檚 Bucs during the offseason and is back in position to win another.

He compares the quarterbacks to Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.

鈥淭hey both are competitive, extremely competitive,鈥� McCoy said. 鈥淭hey always want to win at any cost. They have that superstar quality to them. I think that Pat鈥檚 younger and Brady鈥檚 older, more established, so successful, and I think Pat is chasing that. I think he鈥檚 on the verge of being the next Brady. I love to watch them lead but lead differently, but they all have the ultimate same goal 鈥� they want to win.鈥�

Defenses have had a hard time slowing down Kansas City鈥檚 dynamic duo of Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce this postseason. Hill has 17 catches for 282 yards, while Kelce has 21 catches for 227 yards.

Both have topped 100 yards receiving in the first two playoff games and can be the first set of teammates to do that three games in a row in a single postseason.

Kelce and Hill can be the third set of teammates each to top 300 yards receiving in a single postseason, joining Carolina鈥檚 Steve Smith and Muhsin Muhammad (2003) and New England鈥檚 Julian Edelman and Chris Hogan (2016).

Brady has taken time to get started in his first nine trips to the Super Bowl. Brady has been the quarterback for 17 drives in the Super Bowl that started and ended in the first quarter and has scored on only one of those possessions, a field goal against Philadelphia in Super Bowl 52.

The fourth quarter has been a completely different story for Brady in those games. He led game-winning field goal drives in his first two trips to the title game and has been even better late in the game in his last four trips. Brady is 47 for 63 for 538 yards, four TDs, no interceptions and a 121 rating in the fourth quarter and overtime of those games.

Flag Super Bowl betting as one more thing the coronavirus pandemic has ruined for at least some people.

The American Gaming Association, the gambling industry鈥檚 national trade group, released a report Tuesday predicting that the number of people planning to make a bet on the big game will decrease this year.

That鈥檚 largely because many people still haven鈥檛 returned to work settings, where office pools and squares pools are often circulated and filled out, as well as because fewer people are planning to make bets at in-person sportsbooks, including casinos and horse tracks.

But at the same time, the report predicts that the rapid growth of legal sports betting in the U.S. should easily smash records in terms of the amount wagered online 鈥� the manner in which most sports bets are made.

The AGA report says 23.2 million Americans plan to bet on the game. That would be a decline of 12% from last year鈥檚 levels.

It says the $4.3 billion they are projected to wager, both legally and otherwise, would be down 38% from last year鈥檚 Super Bowl.

But it also forecast a record 7.6 million Americans betting with online sportsbooks, up 63% from last year.

Well, Tampa’s famed strip clubs are apparently preparing for a weird Super Bowl week because of coronavirus.

When Tampa was chosen host of this year鈥檚 Super Bowl, strip club owners anticipated a windfall. Now, though, making it rain is less of a guarantee. There鈥檚 a global pandemic, citywide mask mandates and an attendance cap of one-third of the stadium鈥檚 capacity, so only 22,000 fans can go. Plus, the hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers are in the game, which means fewer people will be traveling and spending money. That leaves the owners and dancers of Tampa鈥檚 numerous strip clubs worried about how this year will shake out.