ANDThis Sunday, February 7, Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have a date with history. They will face the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV and the former New England Patiots quarterback could break some records to further enhance his legend.
First quarterback to win a Super Bowl in three decades
To date, Brady, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning are the only starting quarterbacks to have won Super Bowls in different decades. If the Buccaneers defeat the Chiefs, Brady will become the only QB to achieve a ring in three decades. He won three in a four-year span from 2001-04, and three in a five-year span from 2014-18. Brady has a 6-3 record in the Super Bowl.
Brady, seventh champion QB coming from wild-card round
Brady can join another exclusive quarterback club if the Buccaneers beat the Chiefs. With a win, Brady would join Jim Plunkett (Raiders 1980), John Elway (Broncos 19997), Trent Dilfer (Ravens 2000), Ben Roethlisberger (Steelers 2005), Eli Manning (Giants 2007) and Aaron Rodgers (2010 Packers) as the only QBs to lead a team from the wild-card round of the playoffs to a Super Bowl title. In any case, it must be borne in mind that this year the teams that played the first round of playoffs or wild card have gone from 8 to 12.
Brady can match Manning’s single record
With a win over the Chiefs, Brady would join Peyton Manning as the only starting quarterbacks to win the Super Bowls with two franchises . Manning led the Broncos to victory in Super Bowl 50, nine years after being champion with the Colts, when they beat the Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI.
Manning, Brady, Craig Morton and Kurt Warner are the only QBs to have been present with more than one franchise at the Super Bowl. Ironically, Morton lost his second championship to the team he was quarterback for in his first Super Bowl. Six years after leading the Cowboys to the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance (16-13 loss to the Colts), Morton fell to Dallas’ ‘Doomsday Defense’ in Denver’s 27-10 loss. vs. the Cowboys in Super Bowl XII.