It Turns Out Tom Brady’s Lombardi Trophy Toss Wasn’t All That Risky

By Michael Hurley, CBS Boston

BOSTON (CBS) — You surely retrieve Tom Brady chucking the Lombardi Trophy from 1 vessel to different during the Buccaneers’ floating Super Bowl solemnisation successful February. That shiny metallic trophy precariously soared crossed the bay, perchance risking an costly mistake connected the portion of the top backmost of each time.

As it turns out, though, determination was ne'er immoderate hazard of losing the trophy astatine the bottommost of the bay.

The ESPN pregame unit decided to bash immoderate “Mythbusters” benignant of enactment connected Sunday, with Randy Moss throwing a Lombardi Trophy into the East River successful New York.

Moss — who ne'er won a Lombardi, which is simply a existent shame — happily obliged, sending the trophy into the water. Despite Tedy Bruschi’s certainty that the trophy would descend similar a stone, it conscionable …floated.

Can confirm: The Lombardi Trophy does interval 😂 pic.twitter.com/xwwUygL0cp

— NFL connected ESPN (@ESPNNFL) September 19, 2021

That’s 1 costly excavation toy.

The experimentation solved a enigma that, successful retrospect, could person been solved months ago. And it adds a much comical airy to immoderate of the consternation successful immoderate of the breathless coverage of Brady’s horrifically unsafe trophy toss.

After each of that, the lone existent hazard successful that flip was for the guys successful the receiving vessel catching a Lombardi disconnected the dome. The Lombardi is buoyant — who knew?!