How to Build a Super Bowl Winning Team

It’s Super Sunday, and as we think about what it would take for our Vikings to once again get back to the big game, it’s worth looking into what secret sauce allows teams to advance to the biggest game in American sports- and win it.

When we think about Super Bowl teams of the past, we often think of the quarterbacks of those teams. Sometimes of dominating defenses. But what can history show us in terms of the common elements to Super Bowl winning teams in the recent past?

Let’s take a look.

A Top 10 Passer-Rating Quarterback

Of the 22 quarterbacks playing in the last 11 Super Bowls, 18 were top ten in passer rating the year they played in the Super Bowl. Two others were ranked 11th, and one…