Jalen Hurts has a rare chance of redemption according to NFL history in upcoming Eagles' Super Bowl appearance
When a quarterback loses the first Super Bowl he ever plays in, climbing that mountain again and actually reaching the summit is one of the hardest accomplishments in NFL history. And yet here is Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts near the peak of the mountain once again after a one-year hiatus. Only three QBs in […]
When a quarterback loses the first Super Bowl he ever plays in, climbing that mountain again and actually reaching the summit is one of the hardest accomplishments in NFL history.
And yet here is Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts near the peak of the mountain once again after a one-year hiatus.
Only three QBs in the Super Bowl era have won a ring after coming up short their first time around. Hurts will look to join Len Dawson, Bob Griese, and John Elway in this exclusive list Sunday evening in Super Bowl LIX against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Dawson's Kansas City Chiefs lost the first-ever Super Bowl in 1967 to the Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers. There's a reason why the hardware is named the Lombardi Trophy, after all. Dawson and K.C. returned three years later and defeated the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. This was the last Super Bowl before the AFL and NFL merged in 1970, and the first Super Bowl ever played in New Orleans, which is where Sunday's tilt will be held.
Two years later it was Griese's Miami Dolphins that fell to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI, once again held in NOLA. The Dolphins notably didn't lose a game the following year, completing the sport's only perfect season in 1972, and Griese became the second QB to join this list. Miami also won Super Bowl VII the following year.
It would be 25 years until Elway bumped the list up to three QBs. His Denver Broncos suffered three Super Bowl losses in four years from 1987-1990. Elway wouldn't make it back until Super Bowl XXXII in 1998 when he finally got over the hump against the Green Bay Packers. Denver went back-to-back with Elway against the Atlanta Falcons the following year in what was the last game of his Hall of Fame career.
We're nearly 30 years removed since Elway's iconic final on-field chapter ended, and all three of the above QBs are now in the Hall of Fame. Should Hurts pull off the upset Sunday and gain this rare form of redemption, his eventual resume for Canton would gain quite the bullet point.
Philadelphia is 1-3 all-time in Super Bowls. The previous two QBs who lost, Ron Jaworski and Donovan McNabb, never made it back to the big game.
Hurts is back, and has a chance to cement himself in the history books as well as Philadelphia lore.
