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Ron Cook: Bill Russell is the greatest team athlete of all time

Matthew Stafford won his first Super Bowl championship Sunday night with the Los Angeles Rams. He will have to win another to match Ben Roethlisberger and three more to tie Terry Bradshaw. Of course, he needs six more to catch Tom Brady, whose seven Lombardi Trophies are more than any NFL franchise has. The Steelers have only six.

Good luck to Stafford matching Brady.

What's amazing is Brady isn't the greatest team athlete in sports history. Neither is Michael Jordan, who won six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls, nor Wayne Gretzky, who won four Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers and owns all of hockey's significant records and will for a long time as long as he can hold off Alex Ovechkin.

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