Super Bowl LX Recap: Seahawks ride dominant defense to 29-13 win over Patriots, franchise's second title
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
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Summary
Any short list of the best stories in the NFL this season would have to include the Seattle Seahawks' dominant defense, Sam Darnold's full redemption, and Seattle's ceaseless climb to the top of the league. So it was perhaps fitting that all three of those stories came together on Super Bowl Sunday, resulting in another Lombardi Trophy making its way to the Pacific Northwest. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman recap the Seahawks' 29-13 win over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX live from Levi's Stadium on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm recording this on the concourse on the 200 level of Levi's Stadium. |
| 0:10.4 | We just wrapped up our Super Bowl 60 recap. |
| 0:13.5 | Just an ass kicking from the Seattle Seahawks. |
| 0:16.2 | My God, they were the best team in the NFL, I think for most of this season. |
| 0:19.9 | They were the best defense in the NFL for most of this season. |
| 0:22.6 | And they really showed us that over the course of this game. |
| 0:25.0 | Patriots had absolutely no answers. |
| 0:27.2 | We saw the reasons that Mike McDonald and this group are really a truly special team and unit overall. |
| 0:33.8 | Big game from Kenneth Walker was about to get paid a lot of money and really just the type of |
| 0:38.5 | performance from the Seattle Seahawks that we probably should have expected given what they were |
| 0:42.8 | throughout this entire season. We dug into all of it. What we saw from Seattle, how they got to this |
| 0:48.1 | moment, what this means for Mike McDonald and John Schneider, what was really special about that |
| 0:52.8 | Seahawks defense and all the ways that we saw |
| 0:54.6 | tonight? dug into all of that with me, Derek Klasson, and Dave Hellman. So let's get to it right now. |
| 1:05.8 | Coming to you guys live from Levi's Stadium after Super Bowl 60. This is the athletic football show. Derek, |
| 1:14.1 | I felt like the Seattle Seahawks were the best team in football for most of this season. |
| 1:18.2 | I think they absolutely were that over the second half of the season. Coming into this game, |
| 1:22.0 | I felt like they were the substantially better team. And I think they showed us that tonight, |
| 1:26.2 | to say the least. there's kind of a comfort |
| 1:28.1 | in them doing it in the exact way that we all thought they would which is the defense chokes them |
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