With a thrilling end to the Super Bowl 2020, one can only wonder how exciting the next season is going to be. With unpredictability being the common element, the NFL has seen some nail biting encounters last season. Super Bowl 2021 will be played in Tampa, Florida. Betting enthusiasts would be rubbing their hands in anticipation of what’s in store. Kansas City Chiefs are the favourites to win it next year, and you can find the best NFL betting odds, statistics and power rankingsonline. One can expect plenty drama and high-quality football matches throughout the coming season.

Super Bowl 2021 venue

The Super Bowl 2021 will be hosted in Tampa, Florida at the beautiful Raymond James Stadium. The stadium is the home ground of the famous Tampa Bay Buccaneers who have already hosted the event many times in the past. This proved to be a critical requirement for the Super Bowl 2021 which was supposed to be held in Los Angeles but then was later moved to Tampa to meet the requirements of the grand event. It will be the fifth time that Tampa will host a Super Bowl having last hosted it in 2009.

Players to watch out 

Super Bowl MVP, Patrick Mahomes is the man of the moment and deservingly so. He has been fantastic in the last two seasons and would want to continue impressing and breaking records in the coming season. The young quarterback has got everybody talking and looking forward to his performances. Patrick ‘Showtime’ Mahomes as they call him, would definitely be the player to watch out, for both fans and opposition teams.

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, after being named the NFL’s most valuable player will look forward to the next season with a point to prove. He has played superbly the last year and at just 23 years of age, he has a great opportunity to win some more awards. He was awarded the NFL’s most valuable player at the pre-Super Bowl awards. The pre- Super Bowl awards also saw San Francisco 49ers Nick Bosa named Rookie of the Year. He would be an exciting watch as he also won the Defensive Rookie of the Year. Bosa along with the many other young talents will be the ones to watch out for in the coming season.

Teams to watch out 

Kansas City Chiefs with their exciting playing style and the rise of their starlets will be favourites to win the championship next year. San Francisco 49ers came very close to winning it and were only a quarter away from winning the Super Bowl 2020, and would be challenging for the championship.

Baltimore Ravens would want to start winning titles again and would face stiff competition from the New Orleans Saints in doing so. The New England Patriots would want to add to their illustrious cabinet of trophies and will definitely fight for the championship.

Date of commencement 

The 101^stseason of the NFL will begin in September and end after week 17 is played in January.

Another significant retirement has taken place in the world of pro football as Los Angeles Rams Safety, Eric Weddle has announced his retirement.

A two-time Mountain West Conference Defensive Player of the Year at Utah, Weddle was drafted in the second round in 2007 by the San Diego Chargers.  Weddle took over as the starting Free Safety in his sophomore season, and he would play for the Chargers for nine seasons, with three of them earning him a trip to the Pro Bowl.  He would also be named a First Team All-Pro twice (2011 & 2014), and would lead the NFL in Interceptions with seven in 2011. 

He would then join the Baltimore Ravens for three seasons, and he was a Pro Bowl Selection in all of them, bringing his overall total to six.  He joined the Rams last year, which is now his last.

In our 2019 pre-season that ranked active players in terms of their playoff consideration, Weddle was ranked #30 overall and #3 among Defensive Backs.

Weddle will be eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2025, and he will definitely receive a spot on our future Notinhalloffame.com listof those to consider for Canton.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to thank Weddle for all of his on-field moments and we wish him the best in his post-playing career.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is news to us that the Philadelphia Phillies will be retiring the #34 of the late Roy Halladay, who died in 2017 plane crash.

The event will take place on May 29 on the tenth-year anniversary of his perfect game against the Florida Marlins.  In the four seasons that he played for the Phillies, he would win the 2010 Cy Young Award, was a two-time All-Star, and threw a no-hitter in the NLDS against Cincinnati.  Statically, with Philadelphia he had a record of 55-29 with a 3.35 ERA and 622 Strikeouts.

Halladay was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2019. The Toronto Blue Jays have already retired his number.

In addition to the retirement of his number, a statue of Halladay will be placed in Third Base Plaza.

At present, the Phillies have retired the numbers of Richie Ashburn (#1), Jim Bunning (#14), Mike Schmidt (#20), Steve Carlton (#32), Robin Roberts (#36), and the league mandated Jackie Robinson (#42).

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the family of Roy Halladay at this time.

The world of pro football lost another legend as Hall of Fame Defensive Back, Willie Wood passed away at the age of 83 after a long battle with dementia.

Wood was a Quarterback at USC, and he broke the color barrier as the first African-American Quarterback in the Pac 12.  Sadly, this was the 50s, and this was not a time when the NFL would look at a black man at this position.  He went undrafted in 1960, and he was signed by the Green Bay Packers after he wrote a letter to their Head Coach, Vince Lombardi.  

Wood made the team as a Safety, and he would play all 12 of his seasons in the NFL for Green Bay.  With the Packers, he would win five NFL Championships, including the first two Super Bowls.  Individually, he would go to eight Pro Bowls, was a five-time First Team All-Pro, and he recorded 48 Interceptions over his career.  Wood was named to the 1960s All-Decade Team and he was chosen for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the friends, family and fans of Willie Wood.