Super Bowl LX Was The Beatdown That Will Leave No Trace | Defector

"For a half, the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player was either Jason Myers or Bad Bunny, and you could have gotten equal odds on either one. But bad games rarely stay bad forever, and because the second half more resembled a normal game with exotic things like touchdowns, we would not be subjected to a choice of potential MVPs between the Seattle Seahawks place kicker and the star of the halftime show. In the end, there would also be Seattle punter Michael Dickson."

"Such was the comprehensive beatdown that was LX, a 29-13 Seattle triumph over the New England Patriots whose final score actually flattered the Pats. No matter what statistic you could pull from the game, if it did not lead directly to a tale of the Seahawks' utter dominance, it was a lie."

"Drake Maye threw for 295 yards that didn't matter. Kenneth Walker The Third ran for 135 yards, which was about 100 less than it looked. The bad part of that is, because almost everyone expected the game to be a rout for the Seahawks, there is nobody to mock today. Everyone was right, from your grandfather who's been saying "defense wins championships" since you were crib-bait, to the lowliest pundit who ran out of ideas four days too soon, to the mugs in Las Vegas who took all the New England money they could get and nearly got a group hernia from the stifled laughter. You couldn't find anyone outside of Bill Simmons who saw a happy ending for New England, and now you know why."

Seattle dominated New England 29-13 in Super Bowl LX, producing a comprehensive beatdown that made the final score flattering to the Patriots. The Seahawks controlled the game so thoroughly that statistics such as Drake Maye's 295 passing yards and Kenneth Walker III's 135 rushing yards carried little weight. The game devolved from halftime oddities to a normal, touchdown-driven second half in which Seattle stayed the aggressor. Defensive plays and late flurries, including a stripsack/pick-six by Uchenna Nwosu and a nullified 49-yard Walker touchdown, underscored the one-sided nature of the matchup. Pre-game expectations of a rout proved accurate.

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