Revenge is a dish best served Bowl’d.
In Week 12, the Chiefs upended the Buccaneers 27-24 in, what would be, a Super Bowl preview. In the game, Tyreek Hill threw up his signature “deuces” to Bucs rookie safety Antoine Winfield Jr., solidifying his dominance on the monster performance. Hill went for 269 yards and three touchdowns in the performance.
Well, Winfield got his revenge in Super Bowl 55, not just by way of the scoreboard โ Tampa Bay won 31-9 โ but with a little personal vengeance as well, tossing up the deuces to Hill in the closing minutes of the game.
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Winfield earned a 15-yard penalty for the taunt (which is utterly ridiculous, by the way) but the Bucs weren’t hurt for it in the end. Winfield is feeling it, too.
I’m a Super Bowl CHAMPIONโ๏ธ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
โ Antoine Winfield Jr. (@AntoineWJr11) February 8, 2021
Plenty of people thought Winfield’s 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct was well worth it, and entertaining:
Bump that!! If you can throw the โ๐พ sign and back flip into the end zone then Winfield should get to do it to you when they are flat out whipping you. If you gotta throw the flag on 31 you have to throw the flag on 10 when heโs embarrassing folks.
โ Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) February 8, 2021
Most โworth itโ taunting penalty of all time. I love Winfield ๐๐๐
โ Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) February 8, 2021
Another perfect example there why a team should be rewarded, not penalized, for a good taunt. Just perfect timing, content and execution there from Antoine Winfield Jr.
โ Tyler Dunne (@TyDunne) February 8, 2021
I like Winfield. If he taunts Iโm cool lol
โ hydrated king chris long (@JOEL9ONE) February 8, 2021
Normally Iโd be so pissed at Winfield. But right now…
LET โEM KNOW ANTOINE!!!
โ NFL Philosophy (@NFLosophy) February 8, 2021
Hopefully there’s peace between the two. If not, a welcome new rivalry in the NFL is born.