On Sunday, Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger will meet for the first time since Manning picked up his second Super Bowl ring. The game will be the 9th such matchup between two teams whose starting quarterbacks have each won multiple Super Bowls as starters.
This is the third straight year where we have such a game on the heels of a 25-year drought. In each of the last two seasons, the Steelers and Patriots have played, with Roethlisberger and Tom Brady starting both games. But prior to 2010, the last NFL matchup between two starting quarterbacks with multiple rings was in 1985, featuring the San Francisco 49ers (Joe Montana) and the Los Angeles Raiders (Jim Plunkett).
But today’s trivia question wants to know: which two quarterbacks starred in the first NFL game between two quarterbacks with multiple Super Bowl rings?
Bart Starr was the first quarterback to win two Super Bowls but he never faced another quarterback with two Super Bowl rings. Instead, it was the second quarterback to win two Lombardi Trophies that is half of today’s trivia answer.
Terry Bradshaw and Bob Griese became the first quarterbacks with multiple Super Bowl rings to square off, and did so in this game, a 14-3 Steelers win. Two years later, Roger Staubach and Griese became the second pair to play, and in 1979, Bradshaw and Staubach faced each other twice while Griese and Bradshaw had a second matchup.
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