Bill Belichick: Name Lombardi Trophy after New England Patriots legendary quarterback Tom Brady

Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has suggested that the Lombardi Trophy be named after Tom Brady.Reason: Tom Brady has the highest number of Super Bowl wins since the 1960s - seven [six with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers].Tom Brady has been holding the record for most Super Bowl wins by a player in NFL history since February 2021.The Lombardi Trophy is named after Vince Lombardi, a legendary head coach of the Green Bay Packers who led the team to consecutive Super Bowl victories in Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II in the late 1960s. After his tragic passing in 1970, the trophy was named after him in his honor. It was initially called World Championship Game Trophy.Ever since then, the only head coach to have the most Super Bowl wins in NFL history is Bill Belichick. He has a total of six wins as a head coach and eight as a head coach and an assistant.Technically speaking, since the first trophy was named after a head coach, the second one could be named after a head coach too, but here’s something new: the record-holding head coach is vouching for his former record-holding quarterback.“Players win games. You can’t win games without good players. I don’t care who the coach is, it’s impossible. You can’t win without good players,” Bill Belichick said on Sirius XM NFL Radio. “You know that I found out when I had [Lawrence] Taylor, [Carl] Banks and Harry Carson, Pepper Johnson, Jim Burt, Everson Walls, all those guys at the [New York] Giants.And same thing, you know, when we got good at Cleveland [Browns] and then at New England [Patriots], I mean, it’s, you know, it’s [Tom] Brady, it’s [Willie] McGinest, it’s [Mike] Vrabel, it’s [Tedy] Bruschi, it’s Corey Dillon, it’s Randy Moss, Troy Brown, Lawyer Malloy, Ty Law, Rodney Harrison. Those are the guys that won the games, man. I didn’t make any tackles.I didn’t make any kicks. That was [Adam] Vinatieri that made that kick in four inches of snow. You got to have good players, and as a coach, you want to give your players a chance to win. You want to put them in a position where if they go out there and play well, they’ll have a chance to win.That’s what [legendary] Coach [Bill] Parcells taught me: there’s always a way to win. You just got to figure out what it is, and you have to give the players a chance.”“They don’t name it the [Bart] Starr Trophy. It’s named the Lombardi Trophy,” said sports commentator Jim Gray referencing Bart Starr, the Green Bay Packers quarterback who won the first two Super Bowls with head coach Vince Lombardi.“Maybe they should name it the Brady trophy. He won seven of them,” Belichick said.