After a team wins the Super Bowl, there are certain traditions that follow. The team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy right after the victorious game, and gets to make the media round in the days following the game. It can hold a parade and will have to pick 32nd in the NFL draft, while it also gets to unveil a championship banner before what is usually the league’s first game of the next season.
When it comes to the New England Patriots, however, there is one tradition — to paraphrase Futurama: “It is a recent tradition, but it is a tradition nonetheless.