What a Super Bowl Victory Would Mean for the 8 Remaining Quarterbacks

by Keith Edwards, writer for The Penalty Flag

While winning Super Bowl XLVI would me so much to each franchise, its no secret that Super Bowl rings mean more to certain player's legacies than others. The "Marino Effect" has plagued many great players including one of my favorites, Michael Strahan. Strahan would still have been a Hall of Fame pass rusher had the Giants never won a title with him. However, prior to 2007, when you talked about him, you mentioned his sack record, the gaping hole in between his two incisors and the fact he had never won a championship. Of course he overcame that with a magical victory and a lifelong Christmas card commitment to David Tyree. 


Strahan aside, the opportunity to win a ring is especially lucrative for quarterbacks, the sexiest position in the NFL. Dating back to playing touch football in the front yard, everyone wanted to be the QB. No child ever got especially jazzed because he was the nose tackle. You wanted the ball in your hands. You wanted to directly affect the outcome of the game. You wanted to be sexy, because that's what the quarterback position is. The glamor and media glory make the Lombardi Trophy carry a different weight for the guys under center, especially for the remaining eight this year.

Group 1: The Long-Shots 

Tim Tebow, Denver Broncos

Remembering 2011: The Things We Loved

Welcome to the last year of the entire world. Maybe. If I were a betting man, I would wager that there’s not a single day this year that the History Channel will not run some “Nostradamus mastermind” or “end of the world, Mayan style” piece. The world will be blazing in a giant inferno and History Channel suits will be high-fiving and screaming “boo-ya!” the whole way down.  Heck, if the world doesn’t end, they may be setting some random fires in public places just so they didn’t waste an entire year of programming. Of course, this is a complete dramatization. 

In our final days, what better way to move on to accepting our fate than reflecting on yesteryear and our favorite things, which now seem meaningless with eminent doom waiting on the screen-in patio (rather dark intro to what I thought would be a fun piece…o well, maybe after the jump).