It’s been nearly a decade since Malcolm Butler picked off Russell Wilson to seal Super Bowl XLIX, but people still talk about the Seahawks’ decision to throw the ball at the 1-yard line instead of giving the ball to Marshawn Lynch. Even some of the players involved still don’t seem to have gotten over what happened in the game.
While appearing on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay program in an episode released Thursday, Lynch explained what transpired in that fateful moment, including his laughing in Pete Carroll’s face on the sideline. Lynch then explained to Sharpe that if Seattle had scored and won their second consecutive Super Bowl, the entire trajectory of the organization could have changed.
“You took a dream away. You took a moment away. You arguably took a dynasty away,” Lynch said. “You put us in the history books as the dumbest call in football history.”
