The Seattle Seahawks came a pass away from winning two-straight Super Bowls, but then-New England Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler had other plans.
If you’ll recall, then-Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman’s shocked reaction to that pick play on the sideline turned into an instant meme, and head coach Pete Carroll came under fire for his play call decision to have quarterback Russell Wilson throw it when the team had running back Marshawn Lynch ready to pound it in on the goal line.
More than eight years after that fateful, goal-line Super Bowl interception that gave the Patriots a last-second win over the Seahawks, Carroll appeared on Sherman’s podcast to discuss that infamous moment in NFL history.
It appears that Carroll and Sherman are totally cool with each other despite the moment and have an intriguing conversation about one of the most famous plays in NFL history.
“You guys were so mad at me and so pissed,” Carroll joked with Sherman on the podcast about the goal-line play call.
“We were hurt,” Sherman quipped back, which Carroll said is an emotion he may never fully be able to understand.
“I wish I could feel it the way I should feel it, but, y’know, that play just happened,” Carroll added, to which Sherman responded that “you’ve got to keep going.”
The gist of the moment is that this is just the play that Carroll felt was appropriate in the moment because of something the Patriots did, and that it just didn’t go according to plan. We’ll let them take it from here.
Pete Carroll and @RSherman_25 take us behind the scenes of the Malcolm Butler interception play call in Super Bowl XLIX.
Watch the FULL interview with the @Seahawks head coach: https://t.co/LGREvVjkqQ pic.twitter.com/mtJszfBfIh
— The Volume (@TheVolumeSports) August 22, 2023
Hey, this was such a difficult moment for both Carroll and Sherman (and the entire Seahawks) that we’d understand if things were still a little tough to talk about.
However, this snippet does help add some context into why Seattle did what it did that night and why it’s still such a point of conversation all these years later.
