Great games of legend tend to have finishes that are, well, legendary. Last-minute heroics have a way of doing that.<\/p>\n
But there can\u2019t be heroes without some peril to overcome. Sometimes that peril is created in exciting fashion, too. We just don\u2019t remember it as well.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl 2026 is a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX<\/a> 11 years ago \u2014 a game remembered for the Seahawks deciding not to give the ball to running back Marshawn Lynch at the goal line, needing a touchdown in the waning seconds. What people forget is, before Malcolm Butler\u2019s goal-line interception<\/a> that squashed Seattle\u2019s title hopes, Jermaine Kearse made a circus grab to put the Seahawks in position to potentially win the game.<\/p>\n It was an absolutely amazing grab. The live broadcast immediately showed a replay of David Tyree\u2019s legendary Helmet Catch of Super Bowl lore. For older fans, it brought back memories of Antonio Freeman\u2019s similar juggling\/falling grab that gave the Packers a Monday night overtime win over the Vikings to the beat of Al Michaels\u2019 now legendary \u201cHe did what?!\u201d broadcast call in November 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great games of legend tend to have finishes that are, well, legendary. Last-minute heroics have a way of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,249,6,261,9,2833,3248,505,41484],"class_list":{"0":"post-736719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england-patriots","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-super-bowl","16":"tag-super-bowl-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116031899813576168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}