Last weekend, we looked at the team with the most Pro Bowlers to win a championship. Today, we look at the reverse: the team with the fewest Pro Bowlers to win it all.
As a technical matter, the Pro Bowl hasn’t always been around, so some pre-1950 teams and the 1960 Oilers (there was no Pro Bowl in the AFL’s first season) had zero Pro Bowlers. But only one team has had exactly one Pro Bowler and won the title. Here are some hints:
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Four years later, this franchise became the first and only team to win a Super Bowl with only two Pro Bowlers.
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To win the Super Bowl, this team had to get through the only NFL team to ever have 13 Pro Bowlers.
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The 2007 Giants. Osi Umenyiora was the team’s lone Pro Bowl player. Four years later, Eli Manning and Jason Pierre-Paul were the only Giants to make the Pro Bowl, when New York again upset the Patriots in the Super Bowl. | |
Four other Super Bowl champs — the ’08 Steelers, ’03 Patriots, Washington in 1987 and Baltimore in 1970 — had three Pro Bowlers. The table below shows the Pro Bowlers for each team that’s won a championship since 1950. [1]Other than the 1965 Bills, where the AFL named each member of that squad to the Pro Bowl.
