Bill Belichick jokes Lombardi Trophy should be renamed after Tom Brady

The NFL squad that wins the Super Bowl astatine the extremity of the play is handed the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

Lombardi was the caput manager of the Green Bay Packers erstwhile helium led the squad to 2 consecutive victories implicit the American Football League champions – the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders, respectively. It wasn’t until the 3rd NFL-AFL title crippled that the word Super Bowl was used.

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Lombardi’s Packers were 1 of the astir ascendant teams of the era. He had led Green Bay to 3 different NFL championships earlier the thought of an NFL vs. AFL was conceived.

Because of the history, the Super Bowl trophy was named aft Lombardi. It’s 1 of the astir prestigious trophies successful sports, adjacent to Lord Stanley’s Cup and the FIFA World Cup Trophy.

Legendary caput manager Bill Belichick discussed the Super Bowl with Jim Gray connected the "Let’s Go!" podcast. He told Gray it was the players who truly merit the recognition for the Super Bowl victory. The legendary sportscaster reminded Belichick that it was Lombardi who the trophy was named for and not Bart Starr, who was the MVP of the archetypal 2 games.

"Maybe they should sanction it the Brady Trophy," Belichick joked, referencing New England Patriots fable Tom Brady. "He won 7 of them."

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Belichick said teams can’t triumph without bully players. He said helium learned that erstwhile helium was a antiaircraft coordinator nether Bill Parcells with the New York Giants and erstwhile helium helped enactment unneurotic a tremendous Hall of Fame defence with the Patriots.

"You can't triumph games without bully players. I don't attraction who the manager is. It's impossible. You can't triumph without bully players," helium said. "I recovered that retired erstwhile I had (Lawrence) Taylor, (Carl) Banks, Harry Carson, Jim Burt, Everson Walls, each those guys with the Giants.

"Same happening erstwhile we got bully astatine Cleveland and astatine New England it’s (Willie) McGinest, it's (Mike) Vrabel, it's (Tedy) Bruschi, it's Corey Dillon, it's Randy Moss, Troy Brown, Lawyer Malloy, Ty Law, Rodney Harrison. Those are guys that won the games, man. I didn't marque immoderate tackles. I didn't marque immoderate kicks. That was (Adam) Vinatieri, made that footwear successful 4 inches of snow."

Brady and Belichick won six Super Bowl titles unneurotic with the Patriots. The prima backmost past won 1 much with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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