If you win the Super Bowl, you’re probably happy enough about that to pass by the idea that your efforts in the biggest game (or games) of your life left you short of the game’s Most Valuable Player award, even when that omission is clearly unfair.
So, with Super Bowl LVI upon us in mere days, it’s time to recognize those players from Super Bowls past whose play on the field should have merited them the game’s greatest honor. Because a ring is the thing, but recognition is also important.
In preparation for this article, I did a little Twitter crowd-sourcing to see what our readers thought. The replies were fascinating, and while not all of these snubs made the cut, they all had legitimate arguments.
Who's the most egregious Super Bowl MVP snub?
— Doug Farrar ✍ (@NFL_DougFarrar) February 8, 2022
With that, here are our 15 most disconcerting Super Bowl MVP misses.
