SEATTLE — Richmond-native and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is opening up about his team’s devastating Super Bowl loss. Wilson threw a goal-line interception to end the game after leading his team down to the one-yard-line as the final seconds ticked off the clock.
“One yard. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been thinking about that one yard for the past 17 days,” Wilson wrote in a first person account titled Call Me Crazy. “Everyone wants to know how I feel. Well… it’s complicated.” In a video that accompanied the post, Wilson spoke from the heart.
“Boom. It hits me. And it’s a tough feeling. It’s a tough feeling of losing,” he began. “All the great games. All the comeback wins, all the things come down to that one moment and it feels like it’s lost.”
As for the throw that ended the game? Despite the fact millions of football fans think the coaches should have called for a run, not a pass in that situation, Wilson took full responsibility for the interception.
“I’m the one that threw the pass,” he said. “I know that I’ll throw another one and hopefully I’ll be remembered for something different.”
