ATLANTA -- When New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was named MVP of Super Bowl XLIX against the Seattle Seahawks, he gifted the truck he received to cornerback Malcolm Butler.
“Without Malcolm, we don’t win that game,” Brady said at the time. “He saved the game for us.”
Butler will be forever revered in New England for his game-saving interception, and it will be hard to top his status as the greatest Super Bowl unsung hero in franchise (and NFL) history.
Butler was a rookie that season, having made the team as an undrafted free agent out of West Alabama, and he hadn’t played in the first half of the Super Bowl.