If you were Googling, “has there ever been a Super Bowl without a touchdown?” yesterday…you weren’t alone.
There were no touchdowns scored through three quarters yesterday, but then there were four scored in the fourth…two by each team. But one team also had five field goals…and the other had none.
The Seattle Seahawks destroyed the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60 yesterday, 29-to-13…but Seattle kicker Jason Myers was the only one to score until the final quarter. Now when we say destroyed, we really mean man handled. I still don’t know how the Patriots even managed to make it the big game playing the way did against the Seahawks. At least the ass whooping is over now and we can all move on. Especially the Patriots.
Seattle was up 3-0 after one…9-0 at halftime…and 12-0 after three. At that point, people started Googling about a potential, historic shutout.
For the record. There has never been a Super Bowl without a touchdown…there has never been a shut-out in the Super Bowl…and with the late offensive surge, the lowest scoring Super Bowl in history will still be the 2019 Super Bowl, where the Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams, 13-3.
Speaking of 2019, that was the year that Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold made the infamous comment that he was “seeing ghosts.” Darnold was with the New York Jets at the time, but that game was also against the Patriots.
Darnold “seeing ghosts” became a meme, but he was finally able to do some ghost-busting in the Super Bowl…while his opponent, Patriots QB Drake Maye, struggled to get anything going against Seattle’s ghastly defense.
Darnold was not the MVP though. Seattle running back Kenneth Walker the Third was named the Super Bowl MVP.
It was well-deserved. For most of the game, he was the only player, on either side, gaining any yardage. He finished with 135 yards on 27 carries…plus 26 yards on two catches.
This win was revenge for the Seahawks and their fans, The 12s…(or “the 12th man”)…after they lost to the Patriots in the Super Bowl 11 years ago.
In that one, Tom Brady and the Patriots came back from behind to defeat Russell Wilson and the Seahawks 28-to-24. That was when the Seahawks decided throw from the 1-yard line, rather than giving it to Marshawn Lynch.
This was the 10th Super Bowl rematch in NFL history…and the winner of the first meeting is now 6-4 in the second meeting.
(ESPN)