It should be named after Halas, who did a lot more for the game. But I don't expect you to agree, though I could probably live with Curly Lambeau over Lombardi, too. Lombardi was at the right place at the right time; had the Super Bowls started two years later they might have named it after Weeb Ewbank (which would've sounded a lot freakier. 
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)if lombardi hadn't died so suddenly after winning the first two it would probably still be named the "world championship game trophy". if bert bell had lived until the merger, the trophy would probably be named after him. i mean, there's plenty of people in the NFL history it could be named after, but nobody dominated the game like lombardi did in his career, and the nature of his sudden illness and death gave a lot of people a lot of reasons to honor his contribution to the game in some meaningful fashion...
And for what it's worth I think you're pretty much dead on here. Perhaps it SHOULD still be named the championship trophy just to head off this kind of debate. The moment you name the overall trophy after someone primarily associated with one or two teams it starts to look a little biased; I can't help wondering what Madden and Landry thought of winning the "Lombardi" Trophy. The latter might not have minded, but you know it stuck in Maddens craw even if he didn't say anything.
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Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
The '97-'98 Broncos Still Blow My Mind. (THIS ONE'S FOR FLOFFE!11! )
- 30/09/2009 08:41:01 PM
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- 30/09/2009 08:41:01 PM
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Impressive post
- 30/09/2009 09:17:23 PM
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Just watch the videos; they largely speak for themselves.
- 30/09/2009 09:32:25 PM
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that hit on okoye was always listed as the turning point in his career
- 30/09/2009 10:32:35 PM
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Sorry, still chinese to me.
- 01/10/2009 11:30:42 AM
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They Stink! *NM*
- 30/09/2009 10:16:24 PM
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You're thinking of the '97 Packers...
- 30/09/2009 10:17:41 PM
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broncos are better than packers? who is the trophy named after again? *NM*
- 30/09/2009 10:27:15 PM
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Don't remind me of that travesty.
- 30/09/2009 10:51:37 PM
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NFC trophy is named after halas
- 01/10/2009 02:06:24 AM
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I know, I know, and it irks me every year.
- 01/10/2009 06:14:49 AM
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I've always thought if it wasn't for that crushing loss to Jacksonville in 96....
- 01/10/2009 02:35:00 AM
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I tend to agree, though some say that just prevented a threepeat (Note:No one in Green Bay does. )
- 01/10/2009 06:41:12 AM
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- 01/10/2009 06:41:12 AM
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The '85 Bears would beat them by two touchdowns. *NM*
- 01/10/2009 03:26:12 AM
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Reckon we'll never know, but I frankly doubt it.
- 01/10/2009 06:11:27 AM
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Defensive pressure trumps absolutely everything else in football. '85 Bears were the kings.
- 01/10/2009 09:37:37 PM
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I disagree with that statement as well as many of your others.
- 02/10/2009 12:43:33 AM
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Have a look at the teams to win the SB since '80 and then we'll talk.
- 02/10/2009 02:54:48 AM
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I referenced teams that have won since the '80s, as well as one from before then.
- 02/10/2009 03:53:47 AM
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You sound more and more ridiculous with each new post.
- 03/10/2009 03:48:09 AM
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Too bad they cheated to win.....yeah, heart.....
- 01/10/2009 04:07:02 AM
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- 01/10/2009 04:07:02 AM
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Al Davis lecturing people on playing by the rules?!!! 
- 01/10/2009 05:42:27 AM
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- 01/10/2009 05:42:27 AM
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Nice try, but facts are facts and the NFL agreed with Davis.....
- 01/10/2009 03:55:20 PM
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Failure to report some payments isn't a huge deal nor deliberate circumvention.
- 01/10/2009 04:31:01 PM
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