I Will Never Forget This Night: The Seahawks are World Champions & I Finally Have My Championship

After 11 long years, the Seattle Seahawks have finally avenged their Super Bowl XLIX loss to the New England Patriots and for the first time since the 2013 NFL season, the Seahawks have taken their rightful place atop the NFL as Super Bowl champions, beating the Patriots 29–13 in Super Bowl LX.

And honestly, I don’t even think that score tells you how dominant this game truly was.

This was a complete domination by the Seahawks, specifically on defense.

Now, I will give Mike Vrabel’s New England defense some credit. They made sure the Seahawks couldn’t find many explosive plays downfield for most of the night. They kept Offensive Player of the Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba in check, allowing him just four receptions for 27 yards. Sam Darnold didn’t have any huge plays, but he limited his mistakes and, once again, didn’t turn the ball over.

That completed a postseason where, after leading the NFL with 20 turnovers in the regular season, Darnold finished the playoffs with zero giveaways. New England did speed up his clock like they said they would. They got pressure on him, forced him to get rid of the ball quickly, and pushed him into a couple of uncomfortable throws that, as a Seahawks fan with a very heavy rooting interest, I thought were destined to be taken the other way.

So how did the Seahawks win this game? Because of their dominant defense, they will forever be remembered as “The Dark Side.”

Mike Macdonald, in just his second year as head coach, has turned the Seahawks defense into what I believe is one of the greatest defenses of the 21st century. While they may not be up there with the Legion of Boom or the “No Fly Zone” Broncos defense, there’s no doubt in my mind that this unit will be talked about for years to come because of how dominant they were.

In the Super Bowl, they forced Patriots star quarterback Drake Maye into multiple turnovers and sacked him six times. The second-year MVP runner-up just couldn’t get anything going consistently. And because of that, the Seattle Seahawks are world champions.

As a Seahawk fan, yes, I’m obviously excited.

This is the first time in my sports life that I’ve seen one of my favorite teams in any sport actually win a championship. Some of you might say, “What about the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016?” And while that was special, it’s not the same. I’m more of a LeBron James fan than a Cavs fan.

My two teams, my real two loves in sports are the Montreall Canadiens and the Seattle Seahawks. The Canadiens came close in 2021, but the Seahawks are the team that finally got it done for me. I also have to admit that I wasn’t a true football fan back in 2013. It was the following season (2014), when the Seahawks lost to the Patriots at the one-yard line in Super Bowl XLIX where I truly got into football.

Now, for the first time in my life, I’ve gotten to celebrate a championship. It’s one of those moments I don’t think I’ll ever forget, and it’s something I’ll never take for granted.

This title means more to me than just a win.

I don’t like to say I don’t have much going on in my life (because it's not true), but there aren’t many things that truly get me excited outside of sports. Maybe being active on a consistent basis, and we’ll see how this solo trip to New York in a few weeks goes. But nothing will ever top sports for me, and nothing will ever top it when either the Habs or the Seahawks are doing well.

I think we all have things that get us out of bed in the morning. For me right now, that’s my my love of sports. Could that change over time? Absolutely. I’m open to new possibilities, new people, and new things that might make me feel a certain way. But right now, this is my life.

The Seahawks being world champions is part of it.

I’ll have plenty of blog posts over the next few weeks as ideas start flowing, but at the end of the day, this is more than a championship for me. This is one of my loves finally getting it done, and me, as a lifelong sports fan, finally having a championship of my own.

To the Seahawks players: Sam Darnold, Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and that entire defensive unit, thank you. To Head Coach Mike Macdonald for scheming it all up and having this team ready to go. To General Manager John Schneider for building this roster and bringing his second Lombardi Trophy to Seattle, this time with a completely different coach, quarterback, and core.

Thank you.

I needed this. Seahawks fans needed this. We are Super Bowl champions.

As Mike Macdonald says, we are 12 as one. And for the next little while, we are the standard the entire NFL is chasing.

Go Seahawks.

We are world champions.