Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady won his NFL-record fifth Super Bowl MVP award after completing 21 of 29 passes for 201 yards and three touchdowns in a 31-9 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.

Brady, who won his seventh Super Bowl title, found former New England Patriots teammate Rob Gronkowski for a pair of touchdowns in the first half.

The first came from eight yards out and gave the Bucs a 6-3 lead before the first quarter ended.

The second occurred when Brady hit Gronkowski in stride for a 17-yard score, giving the Bucs a 13-3 edge.

Brady and Gronkowski have now connected on an NFL-record 14 postseason touchdowns.

The 43-year-old then linked with another former Pats teammate in wide receiver Antonio Brown, finding him from one yard out to put Tampa Bay up 20-6 with six seconds left before halftime.

Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk provided a bewildering statistic following the Brown touchdown:

Brady finished the first half completing 16 of 20 passes for 140 yards and three scores, with Next Gen Stats providing the pass chart:

He was exceptional, but so was his offensive line, especially in comparison to the Chiefs' blocking efforts. ESPN's Mina Kimes noted the difference:

The Chiefs hit a field goal to start the third quarter, but Brady engineered a six-play, 74-yard touchdown drive that included a 25-yard pass to Gronkowski.

One play later, Leonard Fournette scored on a 27-yard touchdown run.

The Bucs' running game and defense dominated in the second half, salting the game away as Brady piloted Tampa Bay to its second-ever Super Bowl victory.

Brady's first-half performance ultimately gave his team a significant halftime edge to do just that, and now the 43-year-old has won Super Bowls (and Super Bowl MVP awards) in three different decades.

He's also earned this remarkable distinction:

Brady also went through a gauntlet of some of the game's best all-time quarterbacks to get there:

Los Angeles Lakers guard/forward LeBron James, who is squarely in the NBA's greatest-of-all-time conversation, praised Brady postgame:

Pro Football Hall of Famer and Super Bowl champion Kurt Warner has no doubt as to who the greatest of all time is in the NFL:

As NBC Sports' Bruce Beck noted, Brady has now won a Super Bowl in one-third of his 21 seasons.

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