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Super Bowl power rankings: Which winner is the greatest?

By Cody Williams

St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner looks to make pass in a 23-16 win over the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV on January 30, 2000 at Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Allen Kee/Getty Images)
St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner looks to make pass in a 23-16 win over the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV on January 30, 2000 at Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Allen Kee/Getty Images) /
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Which Super Bowl winner is the greatest team in the modern era? We count down all 51 Super Bowl champions.

In that light, you have to wonder where each team would rank among the Super Bowl winners of the first 51 big games. If the New England Patriots were to win again, giving them two back-to back title runs in this era, they would be considered an all-time great champion. If the Philadelphia Eagles with Nick Foles and his questionable throwing ability at this point made it, would they be one of the worst winners in history?

We can’t say that for certain right now, but we can look at the 51 Super Bowl winners to this point and stack them up against each other. This is the definitive power ranking of every Super Bowl winner in NFL history.

51. 2011 New York Giants (SB XLVI)

There’s absolutely no question that the 2011 New York Giants are the worst team to ever win the Super Bowl, right? Even the most ardent of Giants fans have to admit that their team, despite getting it done in the playoffs and the big game, was hardly impressive for much of the year and just happened to get hot at the exact right time. While that’s admirable and opportunistic, it’s also not favorable in terms of this kind of rankings.

For starters, the Giants posted the worst regular season record of any team to win a Super Bowl. They went just 9-7 and, looking at their numbers, it’s not hard to see why. Eli Manning and the offense were respectable when they had the ball as they were the No. 9-ranked offense in the NFL. However, it was the defense that really battled for most of the year as they ranked 25th in the league and were actually so porous that the Giants posted a negative point differential on the season, even going on to win the big one.

As I said, the Giants got undeniably hot once the playoffs rolled around, though, and had a fantastic postseason while starting as a Wild Card team. Then throw in the fact that they again toppled the New England Patriots and it’s somewhat impressive. But that they had a negative point differential is just too crazy to overlook and why New York is at the very bottom of these rankings.

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