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Tom Brady superfan Zhang Weili at Super Bowl LV as cardboard cut-out
- UFC strawweight champion congratulates ‘Idol’ after quarterback secures seventh Super Bowl win with victory over Kansas City Chiefs
- Chinese fighter joins other NFL fans as cardboard cut-outs, including Simone Biles, Eminem and Bernie Sanders
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China’s UFC champion Zhang Weili was among those in the crowd at Super Bowl LV on Sunday night, with the Tom Brady fan there as one of 30,000 cardboard cut-outs.
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A limit of 25,000 fans were in the stands at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, to see Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in a one-sided 31-9 victory.
The rest of the seats at the first socially distanced Super Bowl were filled with cut-outs, which were sold for US$100 each. Zhang was one of the famous faces among them.
A video shared on Weibo by “Zhang Weili MMA”, her verified personal account, showed the UFC strawweight champion’s cardboard likeness in position behind the Chiefs end zone.
“As a fan of @TomBrady, I’m so excited to see the old man enter #Super Bowl# again! @NFL the 55th Super Bowl is about to start, come and join me to cheer for Brady!,” the video was captioned.
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Zhang later congratulated Brady on his seventh Super Bowl victory – one more than his former team, the New England Patriots, the NFL’s most successful team.
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