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SI: Seahawks Super Bowl pass the worst play call in football history

Published Jul. 21, 2015 8:14 p.m. ET

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Nearly six months have passed and the play to essentially end Super Bowl XLIX is still being talked about.

Not surprisingly, Sports Illustrated writer Donnie Banks, who has covered the NFL for 25 years maintains this: "The play that was and remains the worst call in NFL history. Not just Super Bowl history. NFL history. Bar none."

But the bigger question remains for the Seahawks heading into 2015: Can they recover from this loss and make a third consecutive appearance in the Super Bowl? Not since the 1990-93 Buffalo Bills has a team made three straight trips.

The last franchise to win a Super Bowl following a loss? The 1971-72 Miami Dolphins.

Perhaps the ramifications might be even greater than just that one night in Arizona, one that Banks believes will continue to haunt the Seahawks into 2015.

"This was that rare haunting defeat—with the enormity of the sudden change in fortunes almost too dramatic to fully process—that a franchise, no matter how good it may be, doesn’t just shake off and bounce back from."

(h/t Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

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