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Super Bowl Results, Winners, Champions


The Super Bowl begins and ends with the win. When Super Bowl XL takes place at Fort Field in Detroit, Michigan, on February 5, 2006, the bottomline is clear: there can only be one Super Bowl champion. Of all 32 NFL football teams, a few favorites to win the Super Bowl have begun to emerge: the Indianapolis Colts, New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, and Carolina Panthers. These are followed by the San Diego Chargers, Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, St. Louis Rams, and Arizona Cardinals. Favorite wild card bets include the New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons, Dallas Cowboys, and Greenbay Packers. Each NFL season, pro football fans find their heads reeling with the choice of NFL team upstarts, returning champions, and newly drafted hopeful rookies in college, all vying for that singular chance at fame in the Super Bowl. They all contribute to an expanding roster of Super Bowl past results and winners—a rare few, in more legendary ways than the rest.


In the memorable past, the San Francisco 49ers and QB Joe Montana had surely been names synonymous with NFL Super Bowl champions. The 49ers hold an unprecedented Super Bowl record of 5 wins and 0 losses; while Montana, an unbeaten Super Bowl record of three MVP titles in nine NFL seasons, and the highest passer rating in an entire career. 2005 was no doubt the season of the New England Patriots, which bagged their third Super Bowl championship in the past four years. The Patriots became only the second team in Super Bowl history to pull such a feat, after the Dallas Cowboys. At Super Bowl XXXIX, the AFC's Patriots bested the NFC's Philadelphia Eagles at 24-21. It was a consecutive, two-in-a-row championship for New England, the first in the Super Bowl since the Denver Broncos in 1997 to 1998.


New England Patriots receiver Deion Branch, who tied the Super Bowl record with 11 catches, was named the Super Bowl XXXIX's Most Valuable Player. In the Patriots' previous two wins, QB Tom Brady had won two-time Super Bowl MVP for New England. Earning his back-to-back titles within three seasons at age 26, Brady also broke the Super Bowl record for most passes completed in a game in 2004. As fans wonder whether Brady will pull a three-peat at Super Bowl XL, he is up against some very tough competition: Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts RB Edgerrin James, and Carolina Panthers RB Stephen Davis. In history, Joe Montana's record three Super Bowl MVP titles came in 1982, 1985, and 1990. Besides Tom Brady, there are only two other NFL players who were two-time Super Bowl MVPs: Bart Starr (the first ever Super Bowl MVP in 1967) and Terry Bradshaw.