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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 winner receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The contest is held in an American city, chosen three to four years beforehand, [ 1 ] usually at warm-weather sites or domed stadiums . [ 2 ] Since January 1971, the winner of the American Football Conference (AFC) Championship Game has faced the winner of the National Football Conference (NFC ...
The Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded to the winning team of each season's Super Bowl, the NFL's championship game.The original trophy, designed by jewelry retailer Tiffany & Co., was awarded in 1967 to the winner of the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, known retroactively as Super Bowl I.
Eli Manning holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy after the New York Giants' win in Super Bowl XLVI against the New England Patriots at Lucas Oil Stadium. ... The Pro Football Hall of Fame's full ...
After the AFL–NFL merger, the winner of the Super Bowl was given the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which was named after Green Bay's head coach Vince Lombardi. The Packers have won four Super Bowls, in 1966, 1967, 1996 and 2010. [9] [10] Since 1984, the winner of the NFC Championship game has been awarded the George Halas Trophy. The Packers have ...
Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi (right) and Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram met before Super Bowl I in January 1967 to view the first Super Bowl trophy, designed by Tiffany & Co ...
^Note 4 : Michael Strahan was a last-minute substitute for the Vince Lombardi Trophy presentation ceremony, as Terry Bradshaw (who has normally covered the Lombardi Trophy presentation ceremonies for Super Bowls airing on Fox) left the New Jersey/New York area the day before Super Bowl XLVIII to fly home due to the death of his father.
The trophy's namesake is Vince Lombardi, a coaching genius whose Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls in the late 1960s. Lombardi invested his energy in much more than football. He was ...