Five worst NFL quarterbacks with Super Bowl rings
By John Buhler
1. Mark Rypien: Super Bowl XXVI, Washington Redskins
Looking back on all the quarterbacks to have won a Super Bowl, Mark Rypien stands as the one nearly everybody overlooks. Rypien was the third different quarterback Joe Gibbs used to win his three Super Bowls. Joe Theismann beat the Miami Dolphins in XVII. Doug Williams destroyed John Elway and the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII. Rypien bested the Super Bowl cursed Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVI.
Though Rypien did win Super Bowl MVP that year, the Redskins blew the Bills out early. Getting to a 24-0 by the early third quarter proved too much for Jim Kelly and the Bills to overcome in Super Bowl XXVI.
Of the three quarterbacks Kelly lost and the Bills lost two, Rypien stands as the one he should have bested. Jeff Hostetler’s Giants were victorious by a missed Scott Norwood field goal. Troy Aikman’s Dallas Cowboys teams were almost unstoppable in the Bills’ last two misses.
Being the third of three Super Bowl winning quarterbacks for Gibbs and not being the television personality like Joe Theismann is or having the all-around legacy of Doug Williams (Grambling State, Tampa Bay, Washington) definitely hurts Rypien’s legacy as a Super Bowl winning quarterback.
Though the Calgary native made two Pro Bowls and won two Super Bowls (one as Williams’ backup) with the Redskins, Rypien never spent more than a season on another team after leaving Washington after 1993, retiring from the NFL after 2002.