HOW MANY WINNING SUPER BOWLS TO FINISH FOOTBALL

 

 

Winning Super Bowls make history every year, like this year’s comeback. And it’s still not enough.

 

Hardly anyone argues that Tom Brady isn’t the best ever.

Better than Joe and Terry with their handful of rings and MVP gear.

You’ve got to give it to him.

Others say he’s the best of his era, that the NFL of the 70’s and 80’s wouldn’t snapped him.

But he takes hits like everybody else takes hits. They all look hard to get up from.

And he’s 39.

Has he had enough? Not by a long shot. Ask again in three or four years.

What you should be asking is why this man needs to stay engaged in football.

It’s an easy answer.

By most evidence the only thing he likes better than playing football is getting ready to play football.

That’s such a pro statement.

Except it’s not true.

Only one quarterback in the history of the league transcends winning Super Bowls, though he won one.

Joe Namath. That’s him up top loading his gun.

Joe was the guy who took the football player stereotype and crushed it for every high school football player in America.

Linemen wearing white shoes in 1973? Not without Joe.

Grow long hair over the summer and keep during football season? Okay.

He changed the look of the game from guys like the Packers after winning the first two Super Bowls.

Suddenly their golden boy, Paul Hornung, had company on the cool-guy bus.

Now everybody’s cool, just not cool like Joe.

No one else will be the first quarterback ever to win a college national championship, a major professional league championship and a Super Bowl.

Or be the first quarterback to pass 4000 yards.

Grow a mustache like Freddy Mercury?

Prance around in a full length fur coat?

Pantyhose?

Joe’s got it covered.

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Winning Super Bowls is the gold standard for football careers.

The guy you met at a conference with a huge ring?

You’ve never heard of him, but he’s been in winning Super Bowls.

The class ring you got for graduating college? You’d need three to make one of his.

Winning Super Bowls does something to the DNA.

How else can you explain the trance state Joe Buck goes into when he looks at Troy?

He’s looking at three Super Bowls. Close up. Maybe too close.

What happens when you look at five Super Bowls?

Only Tom will know. He’ll be looking down from the top of the list.

From wiki:

Starts	Player	Record	Team(s), Super Bowls	Win %	Ref,
7	Tom Brady	5–2	New England Patriots – XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLII, XLVI, XLIX, LI	71%	[1]
5	John Elway	2–3	Denver Broncos – XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXXII, XXXIII	40%	[2]
4	Terry Bradshaw	4–0	Pittsburgh Steelers – IX, X, XIII, XIV	100%	[3]
	Joe Montana	4–0	San Francisco 49ers – XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV	100%	[4]
	Roger Staubach	2–2	Dallas Cowboys – VI, X, XII, XIII	50%	[5]
	Peyton Manning*	2–2	Indianapolis Colts – XLI, XLIV; Denver Broncos – XLVIII, 50	50%	[6]
	Jim Kelly	0–4	Buffalo Bills – XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII	0%	[7]
3	Troy Aikman	3–0	Dallas Cowboys – XXVII, XXVIII, XXX	100%	[8]