Craig Sniffen gets up every morning and puts on his uniform for work, just like the players who will square off in Super Bowl LV Sunday in Tampa, Florida.
When either Tom Brady's Buccaneers or Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs hoist the Lombardi Trophy Sunday night as Super Bowl champion, they'll have Sniffen – and others like him in a FedEx uniform – to thank for it.
FedEx Express has provided the safe and on-time delivery of the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the Super Bowl for the last 20-plus years and this year, Sniffen – a 27-year FedEx Express team member – helped make the final delivery to Tampa where it was handed off (virtually) to Super Bowl XXXVII Champion, 11-time Pro Bowler, and Buccaneer all-timer Derrick Brooks.
Sniffen followed his brother – himself a 40 year veteran of the CCJ Top 250 No. 2 carrier – to FedEx. The annual delivery of the seven-pound sterling silver trophy handcrafted by Tiffany & Co. is "one of more than a billion deliveries that the more than 600,000 FedEx team members make for and to customers around the world each year," according to FedEx, and was one of the more than 200 packages that Sniffen could handle on an average day – a figure that could balloon to more than 2,000 depending on which route the swing driver is assigned.
He's a familiar face around Raymond James Stadium, especially at crunch time. Tampa has hosted four Super Bowls in his FedEx career and he's been one of the many couriers tasked with moving cargo in and around the area.
