Why Do Super Bowl MVPs Say I m Going to Disney World? Brady Says it Again
On 2/7/21 at 10:28 PM EST
Tom Brady has played in more Super Bowl games than any quarterback in NFL history, and he has been named the most valuable player in half of them. On Sunday night, Brady won his fifth MVP award in 10 appearances at the biggest annual sporting event in America.
Brady guided the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-9 win over the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida. Brady, 43, passed for 201 yards and three touchdowns. Brady spent the previous 20 years with the New England Patriots, who he took to nine Super Bowls, six titles and four MVPs in that span.
How the I m Going to Disney World Super Bowl Ad Started
February 7, 2021, 1:31 AM ·
Disney will not host its traditional post-game Super Bowl victory parade at Walt Disney World or Disneyland this year, due to the pandemic. But the company is still planning to film its I m Going to Disney World! TV commercial featuring one of the stars of the game, immediately after their big win. Michael Eisner and [his wife] Jane were having dinner at the Plaza Inn on the night that they opened Star Tours, and they were hosting Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, who d just flown around the world in that small plane. Jane Eisner said, My gosh, you folks have flown around the world nonstop, what are you going to do next? And [Jeana] said, we re going to Disneyland! Jane turned to Michael and said, That s a good phrase, remember it.
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Tampa Bay vs. Kansas City: Why every Super Bowl MVP says I m going to Disney World!
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Super Bowl XLVI MVP and New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning at Walt Disney World in 2012.Getty Images
No matter which teams make it to the Super Bowl, there are certain things you can count on every year: eating too many chicken wings, watching commercials more suggestive than the halftime show and the winning MVP, sweaty and dirty and exultant, saying “I’m going to Disney World!”
And they all do. But why?
The answer has to do with money, of course, but also a dinner party, and the most hated CEO in Disney history.
Why Super Bowl MVPs Say I m Going to Disney World the NFL Tradition Explained
On 2/5/21 at 12:00 PM EST
One of the Super Bowl s most famous and long-established traditions has nothing do with football, let alone the NFL. Every year, the Super Bowl MVP proclaims I m going to Disney World! to an audience of hundreds of millions of viewers.
For Mahomes it was the coronation of a dream he had shared with the public seven years earlier, just days after the Baltimore Ravens defeated the 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII.
Read more I bet it feels amazing to be the quarterback who says I m going to Disney World after winning the Super Bowl, Mahomes tweeted on February 6, 2013.