What is the name of the Super Bowl trophy, and why does it have that name?

The NFL team that wins the Super Bowl each year is honored with the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The trophy is sometimes referred to as simply the Lombardi.

Winning the Super Bowl, which dates to 1967, is the football world's most prestigious honor. The award bears Lombardi's name because he led the Green Bay Packers to victories in the first two Super Bowls after previously winning five NFL championships.

At the time, those games were known as the AFL-NFL Championship Game. The competing leagues played separate schedules, only meeting in the championship game, before a full merger in 1970. The NFL was the more established league.

The football trophy is 22 inches tall and is made of sterling silver. The majority of the trophy's body is long-standing, on which the words "Vince Lombardi Trophy" are etched alongside the NFL shield and the year in roman numerals. A regulation-size football caps off the trophy to complete its visual style and give it an instantly recognizable look.

Story behind the name “Vince Lombardi” for the Super Bowl

Despite the fact that American football has been played since 1869, the first Super Bowl trophy was given out in 1967 when the Green Bay Packers, under the direction of Vince Lombardi, easily defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl. Lombardi also triumphed in the second Super Bowl the following year against the Oakland Raiders.

The Green Bay Packers won their first trophy, with the inscription "World Professional Football Championship," on Jan. 15, 1967.

"Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing," Lombardi once said.

Vince Lombardi, who died from cancer in late 1970 at the age of 57, is remembered with the Lombardi Trophy. The championship trophy, once known as the "World Professional Football Championship" trophy, was renamed in his honor that year.

The Lombardi Trophy, as such, was presented for the first time to the Baltimore Colts after they defeated the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V.

All you need to learn about the Vince Lombardi Trophy

Oscar Reidner, Tiffany & Co.'s vice president of design, created the design for the Vince Lombardi Trophy on a napkin in 1966 for the Super Bowl.

The drawing showed a football in the kicking position on a three-sided stand, and that is still how the trophy — made each year to be preserved by the winners — looks today.

Every NFL season, the trophy is manufactured by Tiffany and takes four months to complete.

The trophy measures 22 inches tall, is seven pounds, and weighs 22 pounds.

Sterling silver is used to make the Lombardi Trophy. Every year, Tiffany & Co. manufactures the coveted award. The first trophy was made in New Jersey, but since 2017, the award has been made in Cumberland, Rhode Island.

A regulation-sized football mounted in a kicking position atop a pyramid serves as the trophy.

Height: 20.75 inches

Weight: 107.3 ounces

Value: In excess of $10,000

The award was initially given out in the winning team's locker room. It has been given to the winning team's owner on the field since Super Bowl XXX in January 1996. Following Super Bowl XXXI and Super Bowl XLV, respectively, Packers team president and CEO Bob Harlan and Mark Murphy presented the trophy on behalf of the Green Bay community.