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The Vince Lombardi Trophy, also known simply as the Lombardi Trophy or just the Lombardi, is the trophy awarded each year to the winning team of the National Football League's championship game, the Super Bowl. The trophy is named in honor of NFL coach Vince Lombardi, who led the Green Bay Packers to victories in the first two Super Bowl games. [1]
The trophy was deemed lost for decades; it was believed the Minnesota Vikings, who were the last to win the trophy, somehow lost it when the league switched over to the Lombardi Trophy the following year. [4] [5] However, in 2015, the trophy was found to be in the possession of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame, along with two replicas. [6]
The NFL Championship Game was ended after the 1969 season, succeeded by the NFC Championship Game. [2] [6] The champions of that game play the champions of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl to determine the NFL champion. [2] The Green Bay Packers won the most NFL championships before the merger, winning eleven of the fifty ...
Jackson is the seventh Heisman Trophy winner to win NFL MVP honors. The others are: Cam Newton: 2010 Heisman, 2015 NFL MVP. Barry Sanders: 1988 Heisman, 1997 NFL MVP. Marcus Allen: 1981 Heisman ...
A quarterback has won the Heisman Trophy the most out of any position since the trophy first was awarded in 1935. A total of 36 quarterbacks have won the Heisman, most recently Jayden Daniels in 2023.
List of NFL MVP awards; Newspaper Enterprise Association NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award; NFL 50th Anniversary All-Time Team; NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team; NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team; NFL Alumni; NFL Moment of the Year Award; NFL Rookie of the Week; NFL Teacher of the Year; NFLPA Alan Page Community Award
Manning did not win the Heisman Trophy, despite an impressive tenure as the the Vols' quarterback from 1994 to 1997. He finished as high as the 1997 runner-up to Woodson.
The Sporting News has given a pro football coach of the year award since 1947 and in 1949 gave its award to a non-NFL coach, Paul Brown of the All-America Football Conference's Cleveland Browns. Other NFL Coach of the Year awards are presented by Pro Football Weekly/Pro Football Writers of America and the Maxwell Football Club.