BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — In 2002, the Super Bowl included a second-year quarterback who was a sixth-round pick out of a Big Ten school. He was a gangly, underdeveloped central California kid, a later bloomer who happened to be extremely handsome.
Sixteen years later, the Super Bowl will include another gangly, second-year quarterback who grew up in central California, was drafted in the sixth round out of the Big Ten, and whose appearance makes people look twice.
And he happens to worship the first guy.
“Tom’s been my biggest idol my whole life because of those similarities,” Sudfeld said.