ok ... usually, the skirt wearing pansy assed QB's get all the Super Bowl publicity, and even though it is deserved in most cases, it can sometimes lead to things being ignored
like guys doing that extra effort to just be there
so, put on your thinking caps, and look back upon all the Super Bowls you've seen ... and then talk about the perhaps less heralded tough guys you remember
the player doesn't have to have been the MVP ... doesn't even have to have been on the winning team ... just had to do something noteworthy others did not
and the first person I think of when it comes to this is Jack Youngblood, DE for the then Los Angeles Rams
Youngblood played in Super Bowl XIV with a broken leg ... as a matter of fact, he played the entire post season that year with his fractured fibula
now of course it wasn't a compound fracture, with bone protruding ... but it was a broken leg ... on a defensive lineman ... and it didn't really seem to slow him down much
maybe it was good drugs ... maybe it was adrenaline ... maybe both
so Jack Youngblood gets my vote as a true Super Bowl tough guy