With Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, their will a new Super Bowl winner for the 17th straight season, per the NFL.
Not since Brady led the Patriots to back-to-back Super Bowl wins has a team repeated. Seventeen! That extends the longest streak without a repeat winner in league history.
Also, with Cincinnati playing for a berth in Super Bowl LVI, 75 percent of the league (24 of 32 teams) has played for a trip to the Super Bowl in the past 12 seasons (2010-21).
Along those same lines, four of the last 10 teams that played in the Super Bowl – the 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2019 San Francisco 49ers, 2017 Philadelphia Eagles and 2016 Atlanta Falcons – reached that pinnacle after missing the playoffs the prior season.