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Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are the only starting quarterbacks to have won Super Bowls for two NFL teams, while Craig Morton and Kurt Warner are the only other quarterbacks to have started for a second team. Jim McMahon won a second Super Bowl ring having been a backup on the Brett Favre-led Green Bay Packers team that won Super Bowl XXXI.
The Super Bowl win also made Montana one of only two quarterbacks – along with his idol Joe Namath – to win a college national championship and a Super Bowl. Montana, at 25 years, 227 days, was one day older than Namath was at the time of his first Super Bowl, making him the second-youngest quarterback to start a Super Bowl up to that time.
Super Bowl III in January 1969 was the first such game that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker in official marketing; the names "Super Bowl I" and "Super Bowl II" were retroactively applied to the first two games. [4] A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl. [5]
49ers quarterback Joe Montana went on to gain a reputation for his last-minute heroics, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000, his first year of eligibility. Meanwhile, the Cowboys, one of the most successful NFC teams in the 1970s with five Super Bowl appearances and two wins, never made it back to the Super Bowl in the 1980s.
Winning a Super Bowl transforms good quarterbacks into legends, and after 57 games there are only 34 starters in that winning club.
GOBankingRates included the (1) name of the quarterback; (2) number of Super Bowl appearances; (3) Super Bowls appeared in; and (4) teams played for in Super Bowl.
He was named NFL MVP in 1983 by four organizations. [18] He earned the Player of the Game Award in the second of his two Pro Bowl appearances. Theismann also punted once in his career, for one yard against the Chicago Bears. [18] [20] Joe Theismann's NFL rings; his 1983 NFC Championship ring (left), and his 1982 Super Bowl XVII Championship ...
He shares the record for the most touchdown passes (11) in a single postseason run and entered Super Bowl LVIII with the highest career playoff passer rating at 106.3.