SF 49ers: Hater’s guide to Super Bowl 55 between Chiefs, Bucs
By Peter Panacy
SF 49ers fans are going to be conflicted in Super Bowl 55 when choosing who to root against: Tom Brady and the Buccaneers or the Chiefs.
There was realistically only one team in the conference championship round SF 49ers fans could get behind: the Buffalo Bills.
Certainly not the Green Bay Packers, especially those Niners fans who recalled the second half of the 1990s and how Green Bay seemingly ended San Francisco’s playoff pushes each and every year. And definitely not the Kansas City Chiefs, who sent SF 49ers fans into heartache mode after what happened last February when the Niners held a 10-point second-half lead, only to lose it to quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Co.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, meanwhile, wouldn’t have been too bad a story. Except for the fact quarterback Tom Brady is now vying for his seventh Super Bowl ring.
Mahomes versus Brady is going to be the storyline for Super Bowl 55 on Feb. 7. Niners fans couldn’t be more disinterested, and some could even be on the borderline of “haters.”
If that describes you, it’s OK. Niner Noise has you covered.
An SF 49ers ‘Hater’s Guide’ to Super Bowl 55
If you’re thinking about all the things you’re going to hear this Super Bowl, these are certainly going to make you cringe:
- Tom Brady is the greatest to ever play the game
- How many teams, including the SF 49ers, passed up on Patrick Mahomes in the NFL Draft
- Mahomes and the Chiefs coming from behind in Super Bowl 54
- How the Niners passed on Tom Brady as a free agent last offseason
Ugh.
In an ideal world, neither the Bucs and Chiefs would win Super Bowl 55. They’d end in a tie that never ended, and the game would be called before the Lombardi Trophy was presented. Since that won’t happen, though, it’s OK to find reasons why “loving to hate” would be a great move for Sunday’s NFL championship bout.
For starters, seeing a Buccaneers win would mean more of those Brady-like montages of him hoisting the Lombardi Trophy including those six with the New England Patriots. But fans have dealt with that for nearly two decades now. Surely, they can weather another year of the same.
And the reward would be watching Mahomes and the Chiefs exit the field dejected, going through the same feelings the Niners had a year ago.
Kansas City’s fanbase, too, wouldn’t be propping up all those suggestions of the NFL’s next dynasty either. At least not yet.
Still, fans everywhere outside of New England and Tampa Bay have reveled in the sight of a dejected Brady on the sideline leading up to one of his three Super Bowl losses. There’s nothing quite like the photo capture below:
Sure, Brady grew up an SF 49ers fan. Mahomes didn’t. But again, that storyline played itself out long ago and no longer ends up being part of the discussion in any of those Super Bowl games the future Hall of Famer finds himself in.
And besides, there doesn’t need to be any more chatter about Brady being the best to ever do it.
Niners fans can always choose to not watch the game. Let’s be real, though. You’ll likely watch it.
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Super Bowl 55 kicks off on Sunday, Feb. 7 at 6:40 p.m. ET.
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