These aren’t even the Super Bowl champs of your slightly-older uncle Bobby – you know, that uncle no one much talks about at the family reunions, the one who dances around on the weekends down at the intersection, holding that sign for the house-painting company.
Anyway, these most recent Lombardi Trophy hoisters are different from the champs of seasons gone by. Let us examine the ways . . .
They’re not grounded
Remember the legs of Larry Csonka, Franco Harris, Marcus Allen and John Riggins serving as the foundations of the Super squads of yesteryear?
Yesteryear is the key word here; it's simply not how the Roman Numeral Games are won anymore.
The last running back to rush off with Super Bowl MVP honors – the Broncos’ Terrell Davis in ’98 – has been retired for a decade now. Reaching the top via a punishing ground game disappeared from NFL game plans not long after.
Here’s a stat for you: Half of the past six Super Bowl champs – the ’11 Giants, the ’10 Packers and the ’06 Colts – actually were outrushed during the regular season. That’s as many times as it occurred among the first 40 Super winners.
This past season’s champion Giants drove that point home, finishing dead-last in the league during the regular season with an average of 89.2 rushing yards per game.
Yesteryear is the key word here; it's simply not how the Roman Numeral Games are won anymore.
The last running back to rush off with Super Bowl MVP honors – the Broncos’ Terrell Davis in ’98 – has been retired for a decade now. Reaching the top via a punishing ground game disappeared from NFL game plans not long after.
Here’s a stat for you: Half of the past six Super Bowl champs – the ’11 Giants, the ’10 Packers and the ’06 Colts – actually were outrushed during the regular season. That’s as many times as it occurred among the first 40 Super winners.
This past season’s champion Giants drove that point home, finishing dead-last in the league during the regular season with an average of 89.2 rushing yards per game.
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