Pete Carroll was blaming only one person after the controversial call that many believed cost the Seattle Seahawks the Super Bowl.
With time running out, and the Seahawks 28-24 down, the Seahawks were intercepted a yard from the end zone. Many had expected Seattle to give the ball to one of the most powerful running backs in the game, Marshawn Lynch.
“I told those guys, ‘That’s my fault, totally,’ “ Carroll said on NBC’s postgame show. “But we had plenty of time to win the game. We were playing for third and fourth down, give them no time left. But [it] didn’t work out that way.”
Carroll was visibly shaken after the game, hardly a surprise as his team had come agonizingly close to winning a second successive Super Bowl.
“I can’t even feel it,” Carroll said. “It’s so hard to feel, just for all of these guys that have worked so hard and try so hard and have done so much to get to this point, coaches and players, the 12s and everybody, they’ve done everything they can possibly to do make us champions again.
“For it to come down to a play like that, I hate that we have to live with that, because we did everything right to win the football game at the end. But they did a great job, they gave themselves a shot and then they pulled it off, and they’re world champs, and we’re not.”
