Should've Been Winners (Super Bowl)

 The Super Bowl is played every year, and every year there is a winner.  The right team doesn't always win though.  No, sometimes the universe makes a mistake and the wrong team wins.  But how do we know who these "Misplaced Winners" are?  

Well, this blog circles around one thing, and that's the Iowa Connection.  So, obviously every Super Bowl should have at least one Iowa Connection, but not every one does.  Either I've missed the connection (possible!), or the universe messed up.  Thanos snapped his fingers and the Patriots won.  So lets look at those Iowa-less Super Bowl winners and see who it should have been.

Note : Of the 55 Super Bowls, only 8 have been Iowa-less. (Maybe less, I'm always finding connections)

Update 1: Removed 1982 (Washington has Joe Bugel)

Update 2: Removed 2016 (New England had Brendon Daly)

Update 3: Removed 2007 (New York had Pat Flaherty)

Update 4: Removed 1977 (Dallas had Jim Myers)

Update 4: Removed 2002 (Tampa Bay had Art Valero)


2005

Wrong Winner : Pittsburgh Steelers

Correct Winner : Seattle Seahawks

Iowans who should've been champs :

  • Seneca Wallace, ISU
  • Ryan Hannam, UNI

2000

Wrong Winner : Baltimore Ravens

Correct Winner : Oakland Raiders

Iowan who should've been champ :

  • Greg Biekert, Iowa City

Or: Minnesota Vikings 

Iowans who should've been champs :

  • Dennis Green, Iowa
  • Bryce Paup, UNI

1998

Wrong Winner : Denver Broncos

Correct Winner : Minnesota Vikings

Iowans who should've been champs :


1997

Wrong Winner : Denver Broncos

Correct Winner : Green Bay Packers

Iowans who should've been champs :

  • Adam Timmerman, Cherokee
  • Ross Verba, Iowa

1983

Wrong Winner : Los Angeles Raiders

Correct Winner : San Francisco 49ers

Iowans who should've been champs :

  • George Seifert, Iowa
  • Roger Craig, Davenport
  • Bill Ring, Des Moines

1970

Wrong Winner : Baltimore Colts

Correct Winner : Dallas Cowboys

Iowan who should've been champ :

  • John Niland, Iowa

1968

Wrong Winner : New York Jets

Correct Winner : Baltimore Colts

Iowans who should've been champs :

  • Don Shula, ISU

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