Tremendous Bowl 2026: Seattle Seahawks beat New England Patriots to win second NFL championship

A lot of the 70,823 crowd favoured Seattle, who got here into the sport as slim favourites, and their win additionally means quarterback Sam Darnold accomplished his redemption story after being written off as a beginning NFL quarterback.

The Seahawks are Darnold’s fifth staff in his eight-year profession – and third in three years – however in his first 12 months in Seattle the previous third general draft choose has received the sport’s greatest prize.

The 28-year-old has been haunted by a remark he made as he struggled in a recreation towards the Patriots in 2019, when he stated “I am seeing ghosts”, however Darnold has now exorcised these demons.

As a substitute, it was Maye who suffered a nightmare when confronted with the quick, bodily defence that Durde and coach Macdonald have usual of their two seasons collectively in Seattle.

Such is the breadth and depth of the risk it carries that Devon Witherspoon claimed a sack from cornerback. He, Derick Corridor and Rylie Mills solely registered 2.5 sacks between all of them season however all three obtained to Maye within the first half.

The Patriots earned solely 4 first downs earlier than the interval and 52 yards in complete. Some merciless people on social media even joked that Unhealthy Bunny gained extra yards as he carried a ball throughout his half-time present.

Corridor’s second sack compelled a fumble which was recovered by Byron Murphy, who additionally sacked Maye twice because the Darkish Aspect wrote themselves into Seattle folklore alongside the ‘Legion of Increase’, the defence that led the Seahawks to their earlier Tremendous Bowl win in 2014.

“My team-mates and my coaches, they believed in me,” Darnold advised NBC.

“For the reason that first coaching camp, each single day we got here to work. Shout-out to our offensive line for the whole lot they did within the recreation. However I’ve additionally obtained to shout out our defence.

“We did it. It has been such a particular journey with these guys. A lot laborious work has been put into this and we did it.”