QBs in Super Bowls Passing grades: Super Bowls make Superstars By Gary D'Amato
of the Journal Sentinel staff Jan. 25, 1997 New Orleans Terry Bradshaw led the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl victories in a six-year span and twice was named the game's most valuable player. Those special Sundays, on which the best quarterback on the best team stood alone at the pinnacle of his profession, should have been among the most enjoyable days of Bradshaw's life. QB or not QB? That is the question for New England's Drew Bledsoe and Green Bay's Brett Favre as they lead guide the Patriots and Packers in the biggest game of their respective careers, Super Bowl XXXI Sunday in the Superdome. Photos/Packer Plus They were just the opposite. "If you think playing in the Super Bowl is fun, you're crazy," Bradshaw said. "It's frightening. It's not fun at all. I didn't like it. The only fun is when it's over and you've won. Outside of that, you can have it. "The Super Bowl week was easily, easily, the worst experience of my career. The worst." What made those games exercises in terror were the almost unbearable pressures, both internal and external, that Bradshaw carried into them. The weight of the world was on his shoulder pads. He was the quarterback, the leader, the player in the spotlight. | |
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