At its core, the Vince Lombardi Trophy looks exactly as it did when it was first designed by Tiffany & Co. vice president Oscar Riedner in 1966.
Yes, there have been some very slight variations made to the engraving over the years, but the sterling silver regulation-size football oriented in the kicking position sitting atop a three-sided concave stand hasn't changed a bit.
Truth be told, the biggest change ever made to the annual Super Bowl prize was the name, as it didn't always honor the legendary head coach who led the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships and victories in the first two Super Bowls.
The Super Bowl trophy was renamed to honor Vince Lombardi following his death in 1970
When the Packers met the Kansas City Chiefs in the very first Super Bowl, which was then called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game on January 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the trophy was inscribed with the words "World Professional Football Championship."
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Green Bay, of course, went on to win that game, 35-10, and after defeating the Dallas Cowboys to win the 1967 NFL Championship on New Year's Eve in the famed "Ice Bowl" at Lambeau Field, the Packers went on to defeat the AFL champion Oakland Raiders in what's now known as Super Bowl 2 by a score of 33-14.
Shortly after that win over Oakland, Lombardi stepped down as head coach but maintained his role as Green Bay's general manager for the 1968 season before leaving to become the head coach and executive vice president of the team now known as the Washington Commanders in 1969.
Sadly, just ahead of his second season in Washington and the first official season under the NFL-AFL merger, Lombardi died on September 3, 1970, due to an aggressive form of colon cancer, which he'd been diagnosed with only 10 weeks earlier.
Following his death, the NFL officially renamed the Super Bowl trophy in his honor, and the first team to officially hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy was the Baltimore Colts, who took down Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl 5 by a score of 16-13.
In addition to their two World Professional Football Championship trophies from the first two Super Bowls, the Packers, of course, have since added a pair of Lombardis to their team trophy case, winning Super Bowl 31 over the New England Patriots and Super Bowl 40 over the Pittsburgh Steelers.