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NFL playoffs: Ranking all 53 Super Bowl MVPs

Tom Brady, Steve Young, Joe Montana, Larry Csonka. Where do the superstars’ MVP performances in the Super Bowl rank?

The Super Bowl MVP is a pinnacle for a player. Each year someone earns the award. There have been great efforts and some that were merely right spot, right time. A look at how they all stack up.

53. Dexter Jackson (XXXVII)

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Dexter Jackson had a pair of picks for 34 return yards in earning honors. The DB didn’t have the most return yards of interceptions on his team as Dwight Smith had 94 and a pair of Pick-Sixes. Meanwhile, Derrick Brooks also had a Pick-Six but Jackson was given the award.

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Joe Namath implores Tom Brady to stay with the Patriots

Joe Namath made the mistake at the end of his career and Broadway Joe doesn’t want Tom Brady to do what he did.

Joe Namath urged fellow Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady not to make the same mistake the Jets’ QB did at the end of his career.

Namath played for the Jets from 1965-76. Then, faced with a new Alabama QB having been selected by New York in Richard Todd and a coaching change to Walt Michaels, Namath went from Broadway Joe to Hollywood Joe, joining the Los Angeles Rams for 1977.

It did not work out. He was 2-2 in four starts, throwing four picks in his final one — against the Bears on MNF — before retiring. Namath doesn’t want Brady to follow his white-shoed footsteps.

“It’s almost beyond my belief that (Brady) would go to another team under any circumstances,” said Namath, via ESPN. “I can’t imagine that separation. Moving out of the New England area that he’s been so accustomed to, and his family, that’s a hard thing, too. I don’t think he’ll ever leave that totally behind, I really don’t. I want to see him play as long as he physically and mentally wants to, man, because we’ve all seen over the years the execution that has been superb more times than not. We don’t get to see that kind of player, that kind of character, very often. It’s very rare.

“I wish I knew what I learned in making that transition before making it, “meaning it turned out to be a very difficult transition.”