The Seattle Seahawks coasted to Super Bowl glory, routing the New England Patriots 29-13 as Sam Darnold sealed his journey from flop quarterback to conquerorof the NFL\u2019s biggest prize. <\/p>\n
Brushing off a reputation for wilting in big games, journeyman quarterback Darnold threw for a touchdown and some 200 yardson the grandest stage of all to give the Seahawks their second-ever Lombardi Trophy. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable. Everything that has happened in my career, but to do it with this team, I wouldn\u2019t want it any other way,\u201d said Darnold.<\/p>\n
The victory was buoyed by a dominant defensive display, and kicker Jason Myers\u2019 five field goals \u2014 the mostever by one player in a Super Bowl. Seattle avenged its loss to the Patriots in its previous appearance, back in 2015. <\/p>\n
It was also a triumph for Australian punter Michael Dickson, who played a key role for the Seahawks as he pinned back the Patriots time and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks coasted to Super Bowl glory, routing the New England Patriots 29-13 as Sam Darnold sealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2095,239478,64,63,163494,2490,5374,239483,36630,2105,114420,36300,239481,113591,28661,211614,42502,9139,1231,2041,2067,239477,239486,239482,239480,1269,5142,1254,239479,239484,85,68089,30663,239487,128902,2614,239485,137988],"class_list":["post-468770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-america","tag-american-sports-kicks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-championship-decider","tag-donald-trump","tag-drake-maye","tag-evil-empire","tag-final-practice","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-half-time-show","tag-halftime-show","tag-historic-half-time-performance","tag-immigration-crackdown","tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","tag-mike-macdonald","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-national-football-league","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-pop-culture-nonpareil","tag-prodigious-ball-carrying-runner","tag-rising-star-quarterback","tag-rival-quarterbacks-drake","tag-sam-darnold","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sow-hatred","tag-sporting-contest","tag-sports","tag-state-of-washington","tag-tom-brady","tag-top-offensive-player","tag-trophy-cabinet","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-vocal-critic","tag-young-phenom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}