Rocky Seto, the Seattle Seahawks’ longtime coaching assistant who once said “Jesus is better than the Super Bowl,” is leaving football to pursue a career as a Christian minister.
According to the Seattle Times, Seto, who has served as Seattle’s assistant head coach for defense for the past two seasons, reached the decision on his own.
Seto, 40, has spent many years working with Pete Carroll. He worked under Carroll at USC between 2001 and 2009, before joining his mentor in Seattle in 2010. Seto was promoted to assistant defensive backs coach in 2011, and later was named the passing game coordinator. In 2015, after Kris Richard took over as defensive coordinator, Seto was named assistant head coach for defense.
Seto, who said he became a Christian as a senior at USC in 1998, has long talked of how important his faith is to his life.
In 2014, he told Pastor Mark Driscoll: “We all need Jesus. Jesus is everything. Jesus owns me. Literally, Jesus is the greatest treasure in the universe. It just makes sense. It’s not like you give up your life and then you get something worse.
“He gave us everything. We had nothing, he gave us everything, so literally it’s just one plus one equals two, it’s that simple. Jesus is better than anything … even better than the Super Bowl, better than an NFL career, any of that.”
