{"id":337980,"date":"2021-02-05T06:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=337980"},"modified":"2021-02-05T06:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:04:23","slug":"bucs-or-chiefs-saipan-fans-take-their-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bucs-or-chiefs-saipan-fans-take-their-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs or Chiefs? Saipan fans take their pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sentimental favorite or the oddsmakers\u2019 choice?<\/p>\n

As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs meet in Super Bowl LV this Sunday (Monday on Saipan), the island\u2019s gridiron fans chose which side they are on or were simply forced to pick between Tom Brady\u2019s team and Patrick Mahomes\u2019 squad as their real favorites, unfortunately, were out of contention for the Vince Lombardi trophy.<\/p>\n

The deciding factor was either the numbers from this season, giving the defending champions Chiefs the advantage, or the Tom Brady legacy that the Bucs hope will hand them their first Super Bowl since 2003. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 2020-21 season was an exciting ride for this football fan. My Buffalo Bills had one heck of a run but they couldn\u2019t get past the defending champs in the AFC title game. The Kansas City Chiefs are a complete team and they should get a couple of their skill players back as Le\u2019Veon Bell and Sammy Watkins are expected to be ready for Super Bowl LV. It\u2019s not like superstar Patrick Mahomes needs any additional weapons but he\u2019ll gladly take them. On the other side of the ball, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a star-studded offense, savage defense, and a sage under center. I think Tommy Terrific gets his seventh ring this year in a close game thanks in no small part to the Tampa D. Tampa Bay 28, Kansas City 27.\u201d
\nBrad Ruszala,<\/strong> Joint Region Marianas public affairs specialist<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m going for the Bucs. I personally want to see a team win a Super Bowl in their home stadium especially with Tom Brady leading it. Everyone hates him because he\u2019s successful. I love it. Also, I have to throw my lot in with team man\u2019amko, not with Mahomes.\u201d
\nEdward Dela Cruz, Jr.,<\/strong> Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting firefighter <\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t have an opinion this year as the Niners aren\u2019t in, LOL. Kelvin (Fitial) was sitting beside me telling me to write \u2018Chiefs\u2019 and we started arguing at the table, LOL. But, I lean toward Tom Brady as he originally wanted to be a Niner. Go Bucs!
\nEd Arriola,<\/strong> former CNMI Sharks player<\/p>\n

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\u201cChiefs, because I know Patrick Mahomes will beat Tom Brady.\u201d
\nKelvin Fitial,<\/strong> MMA fighter<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think Brady Experience will win.\u201d
\nCharles Cepeda,<\/strong> Marianas Racing Association president<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m a Raider fan so I wanted the Raiders to win, and I don\u2019t like either team that\u2019s in the Super Bowl. But, if I had to choose, I\u2019d pick the Bucs because they\u2019re not the Chiefs and I like their defense.\u201d
\nLarry Maurin,<\/strong> Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality program manager<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the Chiefs will win this year\u2019s Super Bowl! They have a solid offense with their QB Pat Mahomes, speedster WR Tyreek Hill, and TE Travis Kelce. The Bucs\u2019 defense are having problems covering these guys. It\u2019s going to be exciting…I\u2019m just sad that my 49ers didn\u2019t make it this year, hopefully next year…34-26, Chiefs!
\nCarl James Hocog,<\/strong> Department of Public Safety officer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sentimental favorite or the oddsmakers\u2019 choice? As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":321626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3521,23758,4305,2558],"class_list":["post-337980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-brad-ruszala","tag-ed-arriola","tag-edward-dela-cruz","tag-kelvin-fitial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}