Next Up: Saints vs Buccaneers
🗓: Sunday
🕠: 5:40 pm CT
📺: FOX#TBvsNO | #ForNOLA pic.twitter.com/RbrHNpkxSH— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) January 11, 2021
There it is: the NFL announced the kickoff time and date for the next New Orleans Saints game, in which the black and gold will play hosts to a familiar opponent. Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will visit the Mercedes-Benz Superdome during the Divisional Rounds of the playoffs on Sunday, Jan. 17 for kickoff at 5:40 p.m. CT on FOX.
It’s going to be a high-powered matchup between the NFC South-champion Saints and the much-hyped runners-up. Tampa Bay let the Washington Football Team hang around with them in the Wild-Card Round for most of the evening, while the Saints had some frustration with the Chicago Bears until their stifling defense boxed Chicago into a corner. A last-second touchdown catch to Bears tight end Jimmy Graham in garbage time made the 21-9 score look closer than it truly was.
Anyway. The board is set for a pivotal rematch between the Saints and the Buccaneers, who will be looking to avenge their two regular season losses to New Orleans. Good luck to them considering teams in their position are 14-7 in the playoffs since the AFL-NFL merger.
