The Lombardi Trophy is iconic. It’s quintessentially soccer. It honors the one of many biggest coaches of all time, in addition to the winner of the primary Tremendous Bowl, Vince Lombardi. Just lately there’s been the suggestion that it’s time to revamp the identify, make it extra fashionable — and Invoice Belichick has an thought.
Talking on the Let’s Go! podcast this week, Belichick made a degree of claiming that coaches get glory, nevertheless it’s the gamers who truly win the award. When he was requested concerning the identify of the season-ending trophy he made a daring suggestion.
“Possibly they need to identify it the Brady Trophy. He received seven of them.”
Far be it from me to say it is a horrible thought, nevertheless it’s a horrible thought. You may’t identify an award after somebody who solely retired a few years in the past and is the present part-owner of the group. Heck, if the NBA known as it “The Michael Jordan Trophy” it will be equally ridiculous — and Jordan has been retired for damn-near 20 years now.
We don’t have to revamp something concerning the league’s closing trophy. Naming an award like it is a probability for future generations to surprise who Lombardi is, exterior of Inexperienced Bay’s area being named for him, and studying what a unimaginable influence he had on the sport of soccer.
The one potential identify change I might get down with is that if the NFL determined to honor the late, nice John Madden. His profession as a coach, broadcaster, and the namesake of the online game recognized worldwide, Madden is about the one man who might probably make sense renaming the trophy for.
In any other case go away it alone, Invoice. We’re not naming it after Tom Brady.
