CHIEFS vs. BUCCANEERS

Sunday, Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m. (CBS)

Bowl with the game at home doesn’t even seem real. Usually there’s a buildup. A team goes to the playoffs, loses and goes back and loses again. It takes time to get good,” long-time fan Justin Heaven said.

“The Bucs go 7-9 with Jameis Winston, haven’t won a playoff game in 18 years and haven’t been to the playoffs in 13,” Heaven added. “Tom Brady comes to town and it’s basically: ‘You want to go to the Super Bowl? Come on, let’s go.’”

Fans happily are following, even if they won’t be able to get in or mingle around the stadium with a game-day crowd that’ll include 7,500 vaccinated health care workers given tickets as a thank you for their service during the pandemic.

Restaurants and bars figure to be busier than they’ve been in months, though much of the glitz and glamour usually associated with the Super Bowl will be muted with some events canceled and city officials urging local residents and visitors to practice social distancing.

“We’ve got the biggest game in our house, we’re in it and can’t fill it? I know that’s disappointing for a lot of fans. But people have got to be smart and stay safe,” Sapp, one of the stars of Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl championship run 18 years ago, said.

“You want that place rocking. 22,000? And then 7,500 of that are going to be neutral, and the rest maybe split even. That’s just our luck,” the Hall of Fame defensive tackle said. “I’d like to see all 65,000 — at least 60 — in there pulling or us.”

Derrick Brooks, another Hall of Famer and defensive star with the 2002 Bucs, is co-chairman of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl Host Committee, which has worked closely with the NFL and