super bowl winners, super bowl history

Being the Super Bowl winners means a lot for a team. The players get bonuses, the flashy Super Bowl rings, maybe endorsement deals, but it also means that which ever team winds up being the Super Bowl winners also goes last during the allocation of NFL Draft picks. According to a recent article from The Canadian Press, " 'It is hard picking down at the bottom,' the Giants' general manager said after concluding the 2008 draft Sunday. 'It is a great thing to be picking down at the bottom, but it is just painful to sit there and see so many good players come off the board right before your eyes. And some guys you have targeted and you see them go a couple of picks before you pick. So it is hard to do that, but it is a good problem to have.' And so it goes in Super Bowl history. The Super Bowl winners have to go last in the draft because they were the big winners in the big game. It seems only fair that the worst teams get the first pick of the best players, but it's hard not to feel some sympathy for the Super Bowl winners as they have to sit on their hands and watch all the best college players get cherry-picked right before their eyes.