{"id":458427,"date":"2026-02-09T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458427\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:12:09","slug":"seahawks-entered-the-season-as-60-1-long-shots-to-win-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458427\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks entered the season as 60-1 long shots to win the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few teams in NFL history have overcome longer preseason odds to win the Super Bowl than the 2025-26 Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks were 60-1 long shots to win Super Bowl LX. They were a rare team that could legitimately say before the season, \u201cNo one believes in us\u201d and then proved everyone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.covers.com\/sportsoddshistory\/nfl-champs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SportsOddsHistory.com<\/a>, only one team has ever entered the season with longer odds than 60-1 and then won the Super Bowl: The 1999 St. Louis Rams, who were 150-1 long shots before Kurt Warner\u2019s Cinderella season.<\/p>\n<p>The 2001 Patriots were, like the Seahawks, Super Bowl champions who entered the season with 60-1 odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few teams in NFL history have overcome longer preseason odds to win the Super Bowl than the 2025-26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-458427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}