Seattle Seahawks stop Broncos, now Super Bowl champion [View all]

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Source: NFL

The Denver Broncos offense set all the regular season records. But the Seattle Seahawks defense will be the ones remembered as all-time greats.

The Seahawks are Super Bowl champions for the first time after whacking the Broncos 43-8 Sunday night. Coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider spent the last four years building the toughest, deepest, most versatile defense in football. Their vision was fully realized for the world to see on the game's biggest stage.

For so long, we thought the weather would be a factor in the first outdoor Super Bowl in the Northeast. Peyton Manning and the Broncos got perfect conditions -- it was 49 degrees at kickoff -- but the worst possible opponent.....

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ETA Seattle Times link, story since, after all, the Seahawks are Seattle

http://seattletimes.com/html/seahawks/2022823508_seahawks03xml.html

Seahawks dominate Denver from start to finish to win Super Bowl

Believe it, Seattle — after 38 years, the Seahawks are finally Super Bowl champions.

In fact, by the time it ended, the only thing unbelievable about this one was how easy it was, as the Seahawks cruised to a 43-8 victory over the Denver Broncos to take Super Bowl XLVIII in front of 82,529 spectators at MetLife Stadium.

A young and brash Seattle defense made Peyton Manning and Denver’s record-setting offense merely look old and slow, dominating the action from the start and forcing two first-half turnovers as the Seahawks jumped to a 22-0 halftime lead, the third-largest in Super Bowl history.

Percy Harvin then ended any thoughts of a Denver comeback as quickly as possible, returning the opening kickoff of the second half 87 yards for a touchdown to give Seattle, which entered the game as 2½-point underdogs in most sports books, a 29-0 lead....(more@ link)