Buffalo Bills versus Tampa Bay Buccaneers Is The Super Bowl We Need

With Conference Championship Weekend upon us, two games decide who’s going to the Super Bowl. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Green Bay Packers. Then the Buffalo Bills are facing the reigning champ Kansas City Chiefs. So far, every major outlet is talking about a Super Bowl I rematch between the Chiefs and Packers, Mahomes vs Rodgers, and old generation vs new. What everyone is missing out on is the much better redemption story of the Bucs vs the Bills.

Unless you’ve lived under a rock, or just got into football this year I’m sure you know just how much the Buffalo Bills meeting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl means for each team. No the two don’t have a long historic rivalry, but the history that is there means so much more for those involved. Tom Brady versus his old division rival Buffalo Bills.

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What better way would the Bills championship run be if at the end of it all they took their championship from the one guy who’s terrorized their season for the past two decades? Tom Brady has been the thorn in the side of the AFC East since entering the league. How much better would a championship run be than finally getting one over on your former rival? They’ve had a remarkable season, one that erased a playoff win record no team wants to have. If they can outlast the Chiefs, there’s a very real possibility of winning it all, and beating Brady would be the ultimate icing on the cake.

Brady wouldn’t need to win a championship to put his stamp on the NFL, but beating the Buffalo Bills would just feel right should he decide to walk away. Father Time comes for every quarterback and Brady is no exception. While he’s shown he can still get it done, maybe one more dance and it’ll be time to go. With long-time greats like Drew Brees and Philip Rivers deciding to call it careers, you have to wonder if this last championship will be enough to walk away. That’s the old vs new the NFL needs, division rivals.

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The “historic” matchup of the Chiefs and Packers just doesn’t have the same dramatics for me. Yes, we’d be watching generational gunslingers show off their skills as quarterbacks and outwit each other but the match is about 5 years too late. It would’ve been better off as a Super Bowl 50 matchup, a rematch 50 years later. Fifty-five years later just doesn’t ring out. Maybe it’s just the AFC East fan in me, but a Buffalo Bills vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl just has a way more potential for excitement for both teams.