Tom Brady led seven teams to Super Bowl victories, more than any quarterback in NFL history. On Sunday night, former Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts earned his first NFL championship as the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX.
After the game, Brady interviewed Hurts in his role as the analyst for FOX’s coverage of the NFL championship game for the 2024 season, and he had some advice for the Philadelphia QB.
“Don’t let that jersey out of your sight,” Brady told Hurts. “I had a few stolen over the years, so keep track of that. It’s going to be memorable down the road.”
The jerseys that Brady wore in the New England Patriots’ 28-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX and 34-28 overtime victory against the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI were stolen from the locker room. They were recovered by the FBI.
Brady won the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award five times. Hurts won that honor for Super Bowl LIX and was presented the Pete Rozelle Trophy after the game.
In Philadelphia’s victory on Sunday, Hurts accomplished something that Brady was unable to do despite his record number of championships.
In Hurts’ first Super Bowl appearance, the Eagles lost to Kansas City and quarterback Patrick Mahomes 38-35 two years ago. Hurts became the first quarterback in Super Bowl history to win the second round of a head-to-head QB matchup after losing the first.
For Brady, he and the Patriots lost to the New York Giants and quarterback Eli Manning 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII and 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI.
“I give all glory to God first and foremost,” Hurts told Brady about the victory. “He’s greater than all the highs and the lows. I just think that all the hard work, all the effort, all the determination over the years, and then carrying it over to this team, carrying it over to Philadelphia and being able to build something very special over my tenure here and coach’s tenure here as well. It all goes back to the work, and it’s a team effort. I was telling Mr. (Jeffrey) Lurie (the team owner), ‘Defense wins championships,’ and that defense played their ass off today.”
In Super Bowl LIX, Hurts completed 17-of-22 passes for 221 yards with two touchdowns and one interception and ran for 72 yards and one touchdown on 11 rushing attempts.
Hurts again set the Super Bowl record for rushing yards by a quarterback. He had 70 in the Eagles’ loss in Super Bowl LVII.
Hurts’ performance marked the third time in NFL history that a player had at least 221 passing yards, two touchdown passes, 72 rushing yards, one rushing touchdown and a completion rate of 77 percent in the same game.
