Last Sunday night, the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots had an incredible back-and-forth contest that ended in a 31-24 victory for the Seahawks and unlike so many forgotten HBO shows (Vinyl, Luck, John in Cincinnati) managed to live up to the hype. That hype was fueled mostly by “NFL circumstantial evidence” aka “sports narratives.”
Bill Belichick vs Pete Carroll, Pete Carroll vs his old team, rematch of Super Bowl 49, Russell Wilson and Tom Brady, Jeremy Lane vs his ACL and left arm. And while the game could certainly be a Super Bowl preview between perhaps the best team in either conference, it may have not been between the two best teams in the NFL.