TAMPA, Fla. - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are coming home for the Super Bowl, the first team in NFL history to be able to make that claim.With their 31-26 win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship, the Bucs earned a spot in Super Bowl LV, which is being played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, the Bucs’ home stadium, on February 7.They’ll face either Buffalo or Kansas City, depending on the outcome of this evening’s AFC Championship.Since the dawn of the Super Bowl era in 1967, no team has played a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
And while the stadium won’t be full – capacity will be capped at 22,000 fans due to the COVID pandemic – the NFL has said many of the invited fans will be health care workers from Central Florida, likely.