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  • A Head Coach Botched The End Of The Super Bowl, And It Wasn’t Pete Carroll

    02/02/2015 1:47:52 PM PST · by OddLane · 153 replies
    FiveThirtyEight ^ | February 2, 2015 | Benjamin Morris
    Everyone knew it was coming. Second-and-1 on the 1-yard line. Marshawn Lynch was waiting in the backfield, poised to do what he was put on this Earth to do: Get a touchdown — this touchdown. The football gods had telegraphed how they wanted the game to end, directing a floating ball straight into Jermaine Kearse’s hands. Beast Mode was going to drag the New England team kicking and screaming into the end zone if he had to. But the play call came in, Russell Wilson attempted a doomed pass that Malcolm Butler intercepted, and it was Seattle that punched and...