While the Seattle Seahawks’ coaching staff is busy prepping the NFC roster for Sunday’s 2020 NFL Pro Bowl, the biggest game of the season is still ahead.
With this year’s Super Bowl pitting the San Francisco 49ers against the Kanas City Chiefs just over a week away, Nate Davis of USA TODAY Sports took at stab at ranking the best Super Sundays in history from first to worst.
The Seahawks’ 48-3 win over the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII landed at dead last on his list.
“The chasm between pre-game expectations and eventual outcome may have been the widest in the game’s history,” Davis writes. “Seattle’s Legion of Boom defense stifled a Peyton Manning-led offense that had scored a league-record 606 points.”
Seattle has appeared in two other Super Bowls, however, and Davis found the Seahawks’ most recent matchup against the Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX to live up to the hype at No. 3.
“It will forever be remembered for Russell Wilson’s goal-line interception with the game hanging in the balance when the Seahawks could have given the ball to bruising RB Marshawn ‘Beast Mode’ Lynch,” Davis notes. “The loss likely denied Seattle’s shot at a dynasty while burnishing the Patriot Way. Brady won a record-tying third MVP award as he and Belichick collected their fourth title together but first in a decade.”
Davis ranked the Seahawks’ loss to the Steelers in Super Bowl XL at No. 33.
