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Apparently an urban legend has grown that claims Chuck Howley refused to accept the MVP award for Super Bowl V, allegedly because we lost that game.
The only problem of course, is that the urban legend is not true. Anyone making that claim, when asked to provide evidence, can't do it. Probably because it's false.
Howley himself in a 2015 Vice interview, confirms that he accepted the award:
It's been widely reported that Howley refused the Super Bowl MVP award after the game, but Howley insists he did not. "I don't refuse an award like that. Not at all," the native West Virginian said in a telephone interview. "I was quite, I guess, dumbfounded that I had won. It was just something that was hard to accept, winning and losing the ballgame. I would much rather have won the game and played as well."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pg5...ing-the-game-a-conversation-with-chuck-howley
The only problem of course, is that the urban legend is not true. Anyone making that claim, when asked to provide evidence, can't do it. Probably because it's false.
Howley himself in a 2015 Vice interview, confirms that he accepted the award:
It's been widely reported that Howley refused the Super Bowl MVP award after the game, but Howley insists he did not. "I don't refuse an award like that. Not at all," the native West Virginian said in a telephone interview. "I was quite, I guess, dumbfounded that I had won. It was just something that was hard to accept, winning and losing the ballgame. I would much rather have won the game and played as well."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pg5...ing-the-game-a-conversation-with-chuck-howley
