Somebody over at the worldwide leader sat down and built all-time Super Bowl rosters for the 23 franchises with multiple trips, and the number that jumped off the page at me is 13. Thirteen players ended up on more than one of those all-time Super Bowl rosters. That is the whole story right there, and it is a better story than it looks.
Think about what it takes to pull that off. You have to be great. Then you have to be great somewhere else, late enough in a career that most guys are coaching high school ball by then, and you have to land on a roster good enough to reach the last game of the year a second time. Three things, none of them in your control after the first one. Talent, timing, and a plane ticket.
The NFL has handed us a few of those careers and they are the ones everybody argues about in October. Tom Brady won six in New England and then went down to Tampa and won another. Peyton Manning raised the trophy with the Colts and did it again in Denver on a defense that carried him. Kurt Warner took the Rams to two and the Cardinals to one. Charles Haley has five rings across San Francisco and Dallas. Deion Sanders won back to back with two different teams. Von Miller was the MVP of Super Bowl 50 for the Broncos and got another with the Rams six years later.
checked the almanac: craig morton started a super bowl for the cowboys in january 1971 and another for the broncos in january 1978. seven years, two uniforms, same last game of the year. that is the whole genre in one guy.
I do not have the full 13 in front of me yet, and I am not going to guess my way to a list. What I will say is that these exercises are not really about rosters. They are about the shape of a career, how rare the second chapter is, and how many Hall of Fame talents never got one Sunday in February, let alone two. That is what I am watching for when the full list lands: not who made it twice, but who the great ones are that never made it once.