Order by the year each player first won Super Bowl MVP, by the calendar year the game was played. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Each card is a player named Super Bowl MVP, with his team and position printed below the name. Sort them by the year he first won the award, counting the calendar year the game was played rather than the season it capped. One MVP begins on the timeline with his year visible. Every new card needs a gap; choose well and the year appears, choose poorly and the player still moves to his true place while you lose one of your three lives.
The roll covers the whole history of the game, from the first championship meetings to the latest winners. Only a player's first MVP counts, which matters for quarterbacks who collected the trophy more than once. Quarterbacks dominate the list, so the position line rarely helps, though a defender, receiver or returner stands out. Dynasties are the trap: teammates from the same run can sit years apart, and the team names repeat in every era.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.