Marshawn Lynch and the Seattle Seahawks were on the verge of a second championship in Super Bowl XLIX against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
The Seahawks had the ball on the Patriots one-yard line looking to secure the victory. Many observers expected quarterback Russell Wilson to hand off the ball to their star running back Lynch.
However, head coach Pete Carroll called a slant pass. And Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler entered the pantheon of the League’s history by securing an interception that won the Super Bowl.
Lynch recently sat down with I Am Athlete podcast and admitted that he wanted to confront his head coach in the immediate aftermath of the game’s deciding play.
“At the end of the day, it’s a football play,” Lynch said. “…But it comes to the play call, and it was that type of situation… I’m balling! All I could do was think, ‘I need to get in [Coach Carroll’s] face.’ That happened in that mindset of, ‘give me the ball, give me the ball.'”
Thankfully for Carroll, Lynch decided against turning his anger into a physical confrontation with his head coach. Unfortunately for Seahawks fans, their team hasn’t gotten that close to winning a championship since.
