--- title: Super Bowl: Family 'Blames' the Seahawks for Dad's Untimely Death description: "We blame the Seahawks lousy play call for Mike's untimely demise.” canonical: https://time.com/3698252/seahawks-super-bowl-call-death/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-06T00:04:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:59.115Z article:section: Sports og:title: Family Blames Seahawks for Dad's Death og:description: But they're only making fun og:url: https://time.com/3698252/seahawks-super-bowl-call-death/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Family Blames Seahawks for Dad's Death twitter:description: But they're only making fun twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Family Blames Seahawks for Dad's Death > Sponsored content. 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The Seahawks’ mystifying decision to throw a pass on the 1-yard line in Super Bowl XLIX is already being compared to the sports world’s biggest blunders._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Feb 6, 2015 12:04 AM UTC by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Feb 6, 2015 12:04 AM UTC A Washington state man’s family used the obituary they wrote in honor of the late husband, father and grandfather as an opportunity to take a swipe at the Seattle Seahawks, who lost last weekend’s Super Bowl due a [widely-panned call](http://time.com/3691923/seahawks-carroll-interception/). “He was a small business owner in Kent, WA and loved his family, work, clients, traveling, the Seahawks and life,” Michael Vedvik’s obituary, published Monday in the _Spokesman-Review,_ [says](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/spokesman/obituary.aspx?n=michael-sven-vedvik&pid=174066726) of the 53-year-old. “We blame the Seahawks lousy play call for Mike’s untimely demise.” Ouch. Though the Seahawks would likely recoil at the words, his widow told the [_Spokesman-Review_](http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/feb/05/my-husband-would-have-laughed-about-seahawks-dig-o/) this week that her husband would have gotten a good laugh from it. “My husband would have thought it was hysterical,” said Stephanie Vedvik. “If I had read this obituary to my husband about somebody else, he would have had a laugh.” And according to the _Spokesman-Review_, Michael never got a chance to watch the game—he recorded it and planned to watch it later. \[[_Spokesman-Review_](http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/feb/05/my-husband-would-have-laughed-about-seahawks-dig-o/)\] ## Transcript It's a decision that took Seattle fans from pure jubilation to complete and utter gut wrenching disappointment in an instant. It was second and goal from the Patriots one yard line with one of the NFL's best rushers in the backfield, but Pete Carroll's bunch decided to put the ball in the air and the gamble cost the Seahawks the game. Patriots defender Malcolm Butler intercepted the pass to secure New England's 28- 24 Superbowl victory. And Twitter just about broke after the play went down. With fans, former players, and more chiming in. The general consensus? Worst play call ever. Was that really the worst play call ever? I'm not afraid to say it. I cannot believe it happened. Really. A truly horrendous brain cramp at the absolute worst time. How did one of the smartest coaches in captivity outsmart himself with the craziest, most nonsensical, play call maybe in Superbowl History. For his part, Pete Carroll owned up to the mistake. The veteran coach said he was just trying to catch the defense off guard. We had send in our personnel, they had sent in goal line. It's not the right match up for us. To run the football, so we, on second down, we throw the ball really to kind of waste that play. If we score, we do. If we don't, then we'll run it in on third and fourth down. Some have already even started to stack the odd play call against other infamous lapses of judgment in sports history, such as Bill Buckner's error in the 1986 World Series. And Chris Weber's time out when Michigan had none left a mistake that cost the Wolverines the NCAA title in 1993. But as flabbergasted as most were with the open seat play Seahawks QB Russell Wilson put things into perspective. We had a good play. If it was a catch it would be a completely different story. 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