"The Super Bowl has become a game of such monumental excess that it poses a test within a test: Which NFL team can screen out the lavish absurdities, the gorging on celebrity and commerce, the insipid questions about favorite flavors and foods, and avoid becoming warped and overwearied before the ball is even kicked off? This year, that team was the Seattle Seahawks, a defensive-minded, unshowy bunch who had no use for indulgences as they defeated the New England Patriots, 29-13."
"The Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold, who broke the game open in the fourth quarter with a 16-yard scoring pass to A. J. Barner to bring the lead to 19-0, is a onetime bust, playing on his fourth team in four years. Six of his fellow starters on the 53-man squad had been considered so untalented in high school that the national ranking service Rivals had not even bothered rating them."
The Super Bowl has escalated into monumental excess with extravagant prices, celebrity spectacle, and ostentatious luxury offerings. Levi Stadium ticket prices and VIP food items exemplified extreme commercialization, including a $180 LX Hammer Burger, $40 Dungeness-crab nachos, and $17.50 domestic beer. The Seattle Seahawks maintained a defensive, unshowy approach and defeated the New England Patriots 29-13. Quarterback Sam Darnold, a former bust on his fourth team in four years, broke the game open with a fourth-quarter 16-yard touchdown to A. J. Barner. Many Seattle starters were previously unrated or undrafted, and a gritty, mud-digging mentality helped them ignore the surrounding spectacle.
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