In a week Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes will lead their teams into Super Bowl LV in what may be the best quarterback matchup in Super Bowl history.
This is Brady’s tenth Super Bowl appearance, and Mahomes is the best quarterback Brady has faced in the big game up until this point.
Brady and Mahomes is still a dream matchup but is dinged a little due to the fact Brady, at 43 years old, is not the quarterback he once was. Brady is still a great quarterback, but cannot will a team to victory consistently like he used to be able to do.
Mahomes on the other hand can carry a team when nothing goes right during a given game.
Other historically great Super Bowl matchups from the last 30 years (1990-Present):
Troy Aikman vs. Jim Kelly (1992 and 1993): Aikman and Kelly are both in the NFL Hall of Fame and are considered two of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game.
John Elway vs. Brett Favre (1997): Elway and Favre are arguably two of the top five quarterbacks in NFL history.
Tom Brady vs. Kurt Warner (2001): This Super Bowl will definitely go down in the history books. This was Brady’s first Super Bowl and he got the win against MVP Warner and “The Greatest Show on Turf.”
Eli Manning vs. Tom Brady (20007 and 2011): Manning got the best of Brady twice, but both are surefire future Hall of Famers.
Ben Roethlisberger vs. Kurt Warner (2008): Roethlisberger was just entering his prime while Warner was on his way out of the NFL.
Drew Brees vs. Peyton Manning (2009): This was a Super Bowl matchup between two all-time greats.
Aaron Rodgers vs. Ben Roethlisberger (2010): The Packers win gave Rodgers his lone championship.
Russell Wilson vs. Peyton Manning (2013): Manning had the best year of his career throwing 55 touchdown passes and Wilson was just beginning to blossom into the great quarterback he is now.
Tom Brady vs. Russell Wilson (2014): This Super Bowl will go down in the annals of history as the game where Seattle threw the ball on the one-yard line and it was intercepted. Seattle has never been the same since.
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