Players with the most Super Bowl appearances
Fans of professional football need not be told how popular the sport is.
For 17 weeks a year, many fans set aside some time on Sunday afternoons to watch their favorite teams and players battle it out on the gridiron.
But interest tends to reach a fever pitch once those 17 weeks have come and gone and the National Football League’s postseason begins, ultimately culminating with the Super Bowl.
According to Nielsen.com, seven of the 10 most-watched television broadcasts in United States history have been Super Bowls. Fans with especially sharp eyes and memories might have noticed some players have appeared in more Super Bowls than others.
Tom Brady, considered by many to be the greatest quarterback of all-time, has appeared in eight Super Bowls as New England Patriots’ signal caller, winning five of them.
The eight appearances are the most ever, and Brady’s five Super Bowl wins with a single team are a record as well. Incredibly, Brady is still going at age 41, so he might even add to his record number of Super Bowl appearances.
Even diehard football fans might be surprised to learn Mike Lodish, a nose tackle who played for the Buffalo Bills and Denver Broncos, has appeared in the second most Super Bowls of any player in NFL history. Lodish was a member of the Buffalo Bills teams of the early 1990s that lost four consecutive Super Bowls.
But Lodish would eventually play in two more for the Broncos, winning them both.
Many players have appeared in five Super Bowls. Cornelius Bennett, Lodish’s teammate on the Bills, appeared in five Super Bowls during his career. Unfortunately for Bennett, he lost all five, including one with the Falcons after he departed Buffalo as a free agent.
On the flip side of that coin is Charles Haley, who shares Brady’s record for Super Bowl wins as a player.
Haley appeared in five Super Bowls during his playing days with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys, winning all five.