Tampa Bay won the game 43-29. It was a game of many first's; Tampa
became the first place to win the Arena Bowl and the Super Bowl, It
was among others, John Kaleo's first AFL Championship, Lawrence
Samuels became the first player to win both Ironman of the Game and
Arena Bowl MVP, and Pat O'Hara became the first QB to win an Arena
Bowl with one team (Orlando,1998) then win another Arena Bowl with
the team he beat in the previous one. It was coach Tim Marcum's 7th
Arena Bowl Title and the Storm's 5th, the first since 1996, and the
most in the league.