If Bill Belichick had it his way, he would rename the NFL's championship trophy.
Since 1970, the Super Bowl winner has been presented with the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named after the former head coach of the Green Bay Packers. He famously led the Packers to wins in the first two Super Bowls played.
During his NFL coaching career, Bill Belichick has raised the Lombardi Trophy six times, but he always gives credit to his players for getting the victories.
"Players win games. You can't win games without good players," Belichick said Wednesday on his appearance on SiriusXM's "Let's Go" podcast. "You gotta have good players and as a coach, you want to give your players a chance to win. You wanna put 'em in a position where if they go out there and play well, they'll have a chance to win.
"That's what coach (Bill) Parcells taught me, is there's always a way to win. You just gotta figure out what it is, and you have to give the players a chance."
As co-host Jim Gray noted to Belichick: "They didn't name it the (Bart) Starr Trophy, it's named the Lombardi Trophy."
In response, Belichick offered his retort saying, "Maybe they should name it the Brady Trophy. He won seven of them."
Brady won the Super Bowl six times with the Patriots and added a seventh to his resume while with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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