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Matthew Stafford is the first Super Bowl winning quarterback from UGA

Matthew Stafford is the first Super Bowl winning quarterback from UGA

ATHENS, Ga. (BVM) – The 2021-22 football season seems to be the year of the Dawgs. After Georgia football won their first national championship in 41 years, yet another Bulldog has reached the hallowed land of success.

Matthew Stafford, quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams, led his team to the Super Bowl in his first season with the team and came out with the win. They faced a gritty and tough Cincinnati Bengals squad that has pulled out so many upset wins this season against some of the best teams in the league. 

Stafford joined some rare company of starting quarterbacks to win the Super Bowl in the same season that their alma mater won the national championship in football. The only other occurrence of this was Joe Montana winning Super Bowl XXIII in 1988, the same season Notre Dame climbed to the top of the mountain. 

Stafford produced 283 yards and three touchdowns on 26-of-40 passing in the Super Bowl. Most significantly, he led the last-minute game-winning touchdown drive that put the Rams up 23-20 over the Bengals. With 1:25 left in the game, he found his favorite target in Cooper Kupp at the goal-line for the touchdown.  

Stafford is known for his late-game heroics, having led 42 game-clinching drives throughout his career. That ties him for second all-time with Matt Ryan, behind Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger (53). 

Georgia football is not known for producing NFL-level quarterbacks. However, Stafford has had a steady career in the league thus far. 

At the end of the 2020-21 season, Stafford was traded to the Rams from the Lions. Stafford had an excellent stint with the Lions, although without playoff success. In eight of his 12 years in Detroit, he produced at least 4,000 yards per season. He led the Lions to the playoffs on three occasions and lost in their first game each time. 

In his first season with the Rams after the trade, Stafford put up 41 passing touchdowns, which ties a career high. He also produced 4,886 passing yards, his third highest passing total of his career. Most significantly of all, he became the first Bulldog quarterback to win a Super Bowl.