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Former Seattle Seahawks running back
Marshawn Lynch said he didn’t have much of an interaction with head
coach Pete Carroll after the interception at the end of Super Bowl
XLIX that clinched the championship for the New England Patriots.
In one of the most memorable plays in
Super Bowl history, the Seahawks had the ball at the Pats’ one-yard
line down by four with 24 seconds left. Instead of handing the ball
to Lynch, Seattle called a Russell Wilson pass, which was intercepted by Malcolm
Butler.
Actor Kevin Hart asked Lynch about the
immediate aftermath of that play on the Cold as Balls episode
released Tuesday (8:50 mark of video).
“I come off the sideline, and in my
mind, I’m confused,” Lynch said. “And I’m walking by Pete, I’m
just laughing at him like, ‘Bro, what the…'”
Lynch joked he got over the
disappointment by meeting singer Lenny Kravitz, who performed alongside Katy
Perry during the Super Bowl halftime show, and then having a party
with his entire family that included a delivery of 76
12-bottle Hennessy cases.
The Seahawks were trying to win their
second straight Super Bowl title after beating the Denver Broncos to
close out the 2013 season. They’ve made the playoffs five times in
the seven years since that heartbreaking loss but have never
returned to the Super Bowl.
Carroll accepted responsibility for the
play-calling mistake in the aftermath of the loss.
“I told those guys, ‘That’s my
fault, totally,'” Carroll said. “But we had plenty of time
to win the game … we were playing for third and fourth down, give
them no time left … but didn’t work out that way.”
Lynch last played in 2019 but hasn’t
formally announced his retirement.
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