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To kick off Super Bowl week, this is a 1969 Topps football card of the only player in Super Bowl history to be named the game’s MVP after playing for the losing team, Dallas Cowboy linebacker Chuck Howley. In Super Bowl V, Howley intercepted 2 passes and recovered a fumble in a losing effort, and was named MVP. In a sign of the way players felt toward their profession at the time, he refused to accept the award, since his team had lost. The Cowboys won the Super Bowl the following year and Howley was again outstanding, but teammate Roger Staubach was the MVP. As for his career, Howley was drafted by the Chicago Bears and played 2 years for them before suffering a major knee injury that forced him to retire. He came out of retirement in 1961 to play for the expansion Cowboys, and it turned out to be a great decision, as he played another 13 seasons for them. He was a six time Pro Bowler, and one of many former players who probably deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, but isn’t.