SAN FRANCISCO — Malcolm Butler is a walking Super Bowl legend. Sure, Tom Brady has seven Super Bowl rings. Bill Belichick is headed to the Hall of Fame … eventually. There’s Joe Montana, Lynn Swann, ...

Butler was the unexpected hero of the last Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl. Mark J. Rebilas / Imagn Images It’s Malcolm Butler’s time. The former New England Patriots cornerback and hero of Super Bowl ...

There is one stage for a football player that can change the rest of their NFL career: the Super Bowl. Over the decades of the big game, there have been a select few individual plays that decided ...

Brandon Browner (No. 39), Dont'a Hightower (No. 54) and Malcolm Butler (under the pile) all played outsized roles in a Super Bowl XLIX goal-line stand. Andy Lyons / Getty Images Let’s call it a yard.

Two weeks before Super Bowl 60, on the NFL's Conference Championship Sunday, Malcolm Butler's phone was "lagging." He was half-watching the two-game slate, only loosely aware of the matchups or the ...