57 Super Bowls changed lives of winning quarterbacks ... and there are only 34 of them
The conversation occurred in the immediate aftermath of Super Bowl XXVII, when Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman was riding with his agent from the Rose Bowl back to the team hotel in Santa Monica.
"Do you know what just happened?" Leigh Steinberg asked his exhausted client.
"Yeah," Aikman said, "we just won the game."
"No," the agent corrected him. "When you entered the game you were Troy Aikman, very good quarterback. You left the game as Troy Aikman, superstar, name in lights."
There have been 57 Super Bowls and 34 starting quarterbacks who presided over winning teams. They are members of the most exclusive club in sports.
"It's talked about from middle school to high school to college, all the recruiting, how to evaluate the position," said Brad Johnson, who won a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay in 2002. "And it's the ultimate prize to lead your team to win the ultimate championship. If you've hoisted that trophy, it's a dream come true. It's a wow. It's not a vote. It's not a political thing. It's won, and it's
