Super Bowl Mvp Trophy

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The Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award , or Super Bowl MVP , is an award presented annually to the most valuable player of the Super Bowl, the National Football League's (NFL) championship game. The winner is chosen by a fan vote during the game and by a panel of 16 American football writers and broadcasters who vote after the game. The media panel's ballots count for 80 percent of the vote tally, while the viewers' ballots make up the other 20 percent. The game's viewing audience can vote on the Internet or by using cellular phones; Super Bowl XXXV, held in 2001, was the first Super Bowl where fan voting was allowed.

Since the first Super Bowl was held in 1967, the MVP award has been given to 40 players. From 1967 to 1989, the Super Bowl MVP was presented by Sport magazine. Bart Starr was the MVP of the first two Super Bowls. Since 1990, the award has been presented by the NFL. At Super Bowl XXV, the league first awarded the Pete Rozelle Trophy, named after the former NFL commissioner, to the Super Bowl MVP. Ottis Anderson was the first to win the trophy. The most recent Super Bowl MVP was Drew Brees, who was named the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLIV, held on February 7, 2010.

Joe Montana is the only player to have won three Super Bowl MVP awards; three others—Starr, Terry Bradshaw, and Tom Brady—have won the honor twice. The MVP has come from the winning team every year except 1971, when Dallas Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley won the award despite the Cowboys' loss in Super Bowl V to the Baltimore Colts. Harvey Martin and Randy White were named co-MVPs of Super Bowl XII, the only time co-MVPs have been chosen. Including the Super Bowl XII co-MVPs, seven Cowboys players have won Super Bowl MVP awards, the most of any NFL team. Quarterbacks have earned the honor 23 times in 44 games. Mark Rypien and Hines Ward are the only players born outside the United States to earn the Super Bowl MVP; they were born in Canada and South Korea, respectively. Roger Staubach, Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen, and Desmond Howard are the only four players to have won the Super Bowl MVP and college football's Heisman Trophy.

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Winners

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By team

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By position

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Notes

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  • a The Super Bowl, played in January or February, ends the previous year's NFL season. For example, Super Bowl XLIII, held on February 1, 2009, ended the 2008 season.
  • b Howley is the only player from a losing team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
  • c1 c2 Harvey Martin and Randy White were named co-MVPs of Super Bowl XII, the only Super Bowl where co-MVPs were named.
  • d The Cowboys' total includes the co-MVPs of Super Bowl XII as two different recipients.

References

  • "Super Bowl History". National Football League . http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/history . Retrieved January 6, 2009 .  
  1. ^ a b "Fans to vote online, via wireless devices for Cadillac Super Bowl MVP". National Football League . http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/story?id=09000d5d8065ada6&template=without-video&confirm=true . Retrieved January 12, 2009 .  
  2. ^ Cummings, Tommy (January 24, 2001). "MVP Voting Takes Interaction to a New Level". San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst Corporation) . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/01/24/SP140947.DTL&hw=CNNSI+COM&sn=007&sc=285 . Retrieved February 25, 2007 .  
  3. ^ a b 2009 ESPN Sports Almanac . New York City: ESPN Books. 2008. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-345-51172-0.  
  4. ^ "Sports People: Pro Football; The Rozelle Trophy". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). October 10, 1990 . http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DC103DF933A25753C1A966958260 . Retrieved February 25, 2007 .  
  5. ^ a b Litsky, Frank (January 28, 1991). "Super Bowl XXV: The Game; Giants Win". The New York Times (The New York Times Company) . http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DE1539F93BA15752C0A967958260 . Retrieved January 7, 2009 .  
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