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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ed Malyon

How the Seahawks blueprint won the Super Bowl – and proved the NFL wrong

Sam Darnold and Uchenna Nwosu of the Seattle Seahawks celebrate - (Getty Images)

If you had to choose a defining moment in a Super Bowl of very few standout moments, it would probably be Uchenna Nwosu scooping up the ball in the wake of a Drake Maye sack to put the cherry on top of a Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl win that may not necessarily live long in the memory.

As it happened, the most unlikely of Super Bowls produced the most likely of outcomes, as Seattle torched the Patriots 29-13, a scoreline that might not even reflect the gulf between the teams. The game followed two weeks in which both sides were given a chance to make their case to win the biggest game of all, having entered the campaign without even a mention of being in this position.

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