leonard fournette, welcome to the daily social distancing show.oes it feel, man, 26 years old, your first super bowl appearance and your first super bowl win at the same time. and on top of that, you really played a part in the team. like i have been part of winning teams in high school where i did absolutely nothing and i got it stand up and just celebrate with the team. but you were actually part of the team winning. you understand the gravity of what has happened to you? what is going on in your head. >> i'm going to start, that from the beginning of the season, from being cut from the jacksonville jaguars, it was confusing. i did everything i could to help the organization for my team and just become a better man to help my teammates through. so just from that, and tom brady, reaching out to me and wanting me to join the bucs organization, to help him get a ring. i had an up and down season. it wasn't the best. my stats wasn't as high as they used to be, a thousand yards, as many touchdowns as i wanted. it was always up and down for me, but wh

tampa turns to run leonard fournette. takes it all the way to the house that's a 27 yard run. the bucs literally running away with it they're up 28 to 9 meanwhile, mahomes the chiefs offense couldn't get anything going. that bucs defense was amazing on night here he's picked off by antwaun fields mahomes held in check all game that intersection led to a bucks field goal to make it 31 tonight, it's going to stay 4th quarter more from campus defense they had homes running and just like this. long they were just amazing him. still an amazing throw as he's falling down, but it's incomplete. tampa gets the ball back. mahomes i was going on for minutes left 31, i'm still again mahomes on the run. he goes deep. tyreek hill. i'm sure all night long you got to feel real the chiefs just not able to go anywhere offensively under 2 minutes ago, she's in the red zone again and once again. they're stopped that devin white lsu guy. mahomes picked off again this time by devin white brady knows it's over celebration begins tampa bay wins their second super bowl title for some 18 years and they

the bucs dominance continued in the second half, and soon out of sight when leonard fournette broke clear touchdown number four. number seven for brady. he alone now has more than any single franchise. >> where does this rank? >> i am not making any comparisons. being at here at experiencing it with this group of guys, every year is amazing. this team is world champions forever. yo ■ñ■ñ■ñ?ñ

another touchdown to the half. 21-6 and tampa would extend their lead in the second half with leonard fournetteunning it out from 27 yards out. patrick mahomes tried to muster out a come become, the mvp with one interception coming at a crucial time >> this culture has changed forever. >> here comes mahomes, trying to find the end zone. and no, how about that for one last time. >> oh, yeah, mahomes got picked off in the final moment stopped short of back-to-back super bowl in a season like any other, tampa bay buccaneers your super bowl champions tom is excited they win 31-9. it's the bucs second title in franchise history and the seventh of tom brady's career. he is g.o.a.t. brady is also the first quarterback to win the super bowl in the afc and nfc. >> you can take a deep breath and next ask, what is he going to do with his career now? >> just hang it up >> i would think so. >> gisele has wanted him to retire for some years now. >> yeah, go out on top now, the biden administration is working on selling its relief plan the president used a super bowl size audience to under score the $1.9 tril

after the break, leonard fournette around the right side for 27 yards and score.but the tampa defense was too much. final score, tampa bay buccaneers 31, kansas city chiefs 9. >> yeah, we're coming back. you already know that. >> tom brady's coming back. >> congratulations. >>> in other news this morning, president trump's second impeachment trial gets under way tomorrow. he's accused of inciting his followers to storm the u.s. capitol on january 6th. trump is the only president to be impeached twice and first to be tried in the senate after leaving office. >>> george schulz has passed away. he was secretary of state for six years during the reagan administration. prior to that, labor and treasury secretary under president richard nixon. george schulz was 100 years old. >>> president biden sat down with norah o'donnell for an exclusive pre-super bowl interview. at top of his agenda, a covid relief package. >> mr. president, thank you. >> great to be with you, thank you. >> you're not compromising on the $1,400 checks. >> no. >> made that promise, sticking to it. b

>> it wasn't all gronk leonard fournette broke free for a 27-yard score, putting the bucs up 28-6 things turned from bad to worse for kansas city in the second half with patrick mahomes throwing a pair of interceptions on drives that could have turned the tide for kansas city the bucs win the super bowl, super bowl lv, by the score of 31-9 it's the bucs' second title in franchise history, and the seventh of tom brady's career. and president biden congratulated the team on twitter, calling them in part a story of resilience. >> you saw it right there. and we'll see where tom brady goes from here watch that career. >> retiring, maybe >>> there are concerns that super bowl celebrations could cause a surge in coronavirus new cases and hospitalizations are trending downward across the country but the death toll from covid in the u.s. has surpassed 465,000. new research suggests the variant's first round of the uk is spreading quickly in america. nbc's sam brock joins us now with those details. >> reporter: frances, good morning. it is the perfect recipe for another spike of covid cases tens o

the bucs would lead 21-6 at the half tampa bay would extend their lead in the second half with leonard fournette running it from 27 yards out. patrick mahomes kept trying to muster a comeback but turnovers deterred the former mvp with one interception coming at a crucial time >> this culture's changed forever -- >> here comes mahomes. trying to find the end zone, and no how about that one last indignity. >> that's got to hurt. mahomes got picked off in the final moments, stopped short of back-to-back super bowls in a season unlike any other. the tampa bay buccaneers are your super bowl champs they win it 31-9 it's the bucs' second title in franchise history and the seventh of tom brady's career. brady's also the first quarterback to win a super bowl in both the afc and nfc. president biden congratulating the team on twitter, calling them in part a story of resilience and in our "early today" predictions, it seems like all of us, except for janessa, called the buccaneers win earlier in the weekend i actually got like -- >> you got the 31 right. >> phil got the 31 right as well. >> we just didn't

chiefs were working to dig up out of the 15 point hole. 21-9, third quarter bucks get behind leonard fournette 27-yard touchdown. 28-9 tampa. mahomes had a chance to get in the end zone and tried to force it to travis kellce and white picked it off. tom brady wins his 7th ring and the first title since they beat the raiders back in 2003. >> i think we knew this was going to happen tonight, didn't we? >> with all that you have done, where does this rank? is this the crowning achievement? >> i'm not making any comparisons. being down here and experiencing it with this group of guys, every year is amazing. and this team is world champions is forever. >> tom brady named super bowl mvp will get the headline but how about the defense? they faced drew brees and aaron d trhomes and beat them all. amazing. and don't even mention the word retirement with tom brady. >> no, the raiders found a way to beat up on kansas city and i am wondering how much of that film that they studied. >> raiders should have beat them on monday night football. >>> still to come the first report in our new series road to recov

and leonard fournette the running back who scored a touchdown, he played amazing. brady convinced him to join after he was cut from the jacksonville jaguars. and antonio brown, brady encouraged bucs to sign him. it all comes down to tom brady if he didn't go to tampa the buccaneers wouldn't be super bowl champions. it's just incredible that a 43-year-old can still be out there doing what he's doing. he's coming back for sure. >> oh, i have no doubt about that at all, especially from what we saw tonight. i like the exchange at the end between patrick mahomes and tom brady where tom brady said stay in touch, maybe it's code for, see you next year. andy schultz thank you so much for joining us. great to see you. >> ah. >>> the new coronavirus areaian the is spreading quickly in the united states and soon could become the dominant strain. what could be done, an expert weighs in. >> and the push to reopen schools, the agreement reached in two major cities. more after the break. i'm erin. -and i'm margo. we've always done things our own way. charted our own paths. i wasn

leonard fournette he's had himself a postseason all the way to the house 27 yard run.lly running away with a 28 to 9 who could have guessed meanwhile mahomes and chiefs offense couldn't get anything going that's bucs defense was amazing. here home to picked off by antwan winfield mahomes held in check all game. the interception led to a bucks field goal to make it 31 tonight, it's going to stand in the 4th quarter more from tampa bay's defense. they have homes running like this. game long. look at that and guess what still an amazing throw he's falling down. but it's incomplete. tampa bay gets the ball back mahomes likes what is going already minutes left in the red zone again and again they're turned away. as devin white with the interception those lsu boys doing great. that's the nail in the coffin brady knows it and he is celebrating a big win for tampa time. tampa bay was their second super bowl title first of 18 years and they do it in their home stadium brady wins his 7th super bowl in yes, 5th super bowl mvp award 31 in 9 bucks is taking homes. all right we also

leonard fournette, untouched. he's like a bull inny china shop out there.hird quarter still tampa bay. chiefs pass mahomes, tipped by the bucs, intercepted by winfield jr., 28-9. afterwards, after the big win it's going to be tom brady being named mvp of the super bowl for a fifth time in his career. here he was, after the game. >> i'm so proud of all these guys out here. everything we dealt with all year. we had a rough month of november. b.a. had a lot of confidence in us, the team had confidence. we came together at the right time. we knew this was going to happen, didn't we? we ended up playing our best game of the year. >> now tom brady there, shortly after, celebrating with his wife, gisele and their children on the field, something he has done six times before this. seven super bowl wins now for tom brady, more than any franchise in nfl history, bianna. >> kansas city, let's be real, never really stood a chance in this game. the first half, it was all brady and gronk show. i think we had to watch highlights back from the patriots games, right, to rel

and running back leonard fournette found the end zone on a 27-yard rush in the third quarter.hile, the bucs defense made kansas city's star quarterback, patrick mahomes, and the high-powered chiefs offense, a nonfactor. kc was held to just three field goals in the game, while mahomes was intercepted twice and sacked three times in the first double-digit loss of his four-year nfl career. wow! tampa's bruce arians became the oldest coach at 68 to win the super bowl, while the 43-year-old brady, who earned his fifth super bowl mvp award, broke his own record for oldest player to win the big game. and he joins hall of famer peyton manning as the only quarterbacks to win one with multiple franchises. truly the greatest of all time. brady signaled he's not done yet. >> the team had a lot of confidence. we came together at the right time. i think we knew this was going to happen tonight, didn't we? we ended up playing our best game of the year. >> and there's more to come, right, tom? >> yes. >> there's more to come as far as football. >> yeah, we're coming back. you already know tha

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best players doesn't win the game, the players with the best team wins the game tom, he got leonard fournetteng team, and they played a great game. so i was super, super happy for him. >> seth: do you -- are you friendly with tom brady? >> in my mind. >> seth: thank you for your honesty. >> like he didn't call me after the game, if that's what you mean >> seth: you have a couple of movies out right now "our friend" is a film that actually was based on an "esquire" article, a very moving "esquire" article, but not one that you'd read and would think right off the bat it would be easy to adapt. >> no. it was -- it's a -- it was written by a guy named matt teague, he was a journalist, he wrote an article about his wife struggling with cancer and -- and their two kids. and then that article was turned into a screenplay. and the screenplay was turned into a movie and it -- it isn't -- the article is a little bit of a kind of warts and all depiction of what it was like, heartbreaking, very sad account. and the movie made by gabriela cowperthwaite is not -- not really like that it focuses a lot on a

people like antonio brown, gronkowski, leonard fournette, it's a pretty extraordinary team of i don'tyouth of kansas city and the older guys just pulled it off, right? >> so many people were shaking their heads at the thought of "gronk" coming out of retirement and, of course, antonio brown coming off an eight-game suspension. tom brady vouched for a.b. for months saying this guy's got what it takes and basically told him i'm giving you9 another opportunity here in tampa bay, you need to make the most of it, and you need to stay on the straight and narrow and, lo and behold, the guy scored a touchdown in his first super bowl appearance, and of course the tandem of brady and i don't think, all-time record, 13 touchdowns together, most in the history of the nfl. it really is remarkable just how many of these guys were wrote off, suh, pierre-paul, everybody thought they don't have what it takes anymore, but tampa bay, again, only their second bowl appearance, but both appearances were absolute blowout performances where they've really outshined the other team. and it could be interesting

that hadn't even been tobry admpa lastea afr 20ea in neenglang some alongside him, including leonard fournettebout the difference it makes to have a guy with that aura, tom brady, step into your locker room. how important was that part, just as important as his ability on the field? >> to have a guy like that next to me in the back field, has a resume, understands the game, we just ran with it. >> reporter: then gronk. rob gronkowski came out of retirement to join his longtime friend and former patriots teammate brady on the field with his first quarter touchdown, brady and gronk set the record for the most playoff touchdowns by a tandem in nfl history. >> the old patriots teammates reunite in the super bowl for a score. >> great grk bime pla. te, talentworkthic, coitment and since here, he' takes a lot of people for us to get to this point and, you know, we all have great support systems in place and i think everybody should be celebrating. >> reporter: antoinio brown, th wide receiver who faced assault allegations off the field, but got brady's blessing for another shot at glory. >> for the

leonard leonard fournette, they allowed tom time to find gronkowski down the field.angerous weapon in football, patrick mahomes. and the most important story is brady because at this point he's clearly the greatest football player of all time. in my stills, he's the greatest -- smimghts he's the greatest athlete of all time, and it's not often you get to watch michelangelo paint, it's not often you get to see the greatest in realtime, in the present. by my calculation, it's been a quarter of a century. it was joe montana and michael jordan in the nba, and tom brady now. steve: and he said last night that his two favorite quarterbacks growing up were joe montana and steve young, both from san francisco. will: grew up in the bay area, group a san francisco 49er fan. brian: yeah, here's tom brady talking about coming back. >> there's more to come, right, tom? as far as football? >> yeah, we're coming back. >> coming back. tom brady's coming back. ainsley: those are his kids. he has one with bridget moynihan, and then he has a son and daughter with giselle. what went thr