The Super Bowl winner has been receiving the Vince Lombardi Trophy for several years now. Bill Belichick is now campaigning for it to be renamed the Tom Brady Trophy.
Quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick are the face of the New England Patriots dynasty. Between 2001 and 2018, the two won six Super Bowls and dominated the NFL.
Brady even won another Super Bowl after his time with the Patriots. In 2021, he won the Vince Lombardy Trophy for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But for how much longer will the Super Bowl trophy be named after the winner? If Bill Belichick has his way, the trophy will be renamed after his former protégé after 55 years.
Belichick: Players win trophies, not coaches
The eight-time champion, six of them as head coach, also has good reasons for this. “I had the great honor of working with great players. Lawrence Taylor, Tom Brady, Randy Moss […]. The players win the games. You can’t win without good players,“ Belichick said on the ‘Let’s Go’ podcast. ‘It doesn’t matter who the coach is, it’s impossible without good players.’
”Maybe they should call the trophy the Tom Brady Trophy. He’s won seven,” said the 72-year-old, who will be head coach at North Carolina State in college this year, defending Brady.
Since 1970, the trophy for the Super Bowl winner has been named after Vince Lombardi. The former head coach of the Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls with quarterback Bart Starr.
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