{"id":65866,"date":"2026-02-10T05:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/welcome-to-the-dark-side-seattles-brutal-super-bowl-winning-defense-is-here-to-stay\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:55:27","slug":"welcome-to-the-dark-side-seattles-brutal-super-bowl-winning-defense-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/welcome-to-the-dark-side-seattles-brutal-super-bowl-winning-defense-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Dark Side: Seattle\u2019s brutal, Super Bowl-winning defense is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seahawks\u2019 Legion of Boom terrorized opponents in the 2010s. Now a new unit has taken up the mantle \u2013 and delivered another title<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/super-bowl-lx\">Super Bowl LX<\/a> was a two-score game with less than five minutes remaining. New England had the ball on the Seahawks\u2019 44-yard line and \u2013 after reaching the end zone in the fourth quarter, finally \u2013 that familiar sense of possibility. But that quickly vaporized when Devon Witherspoon knifed in on a corner blitz and jarred the ball loose from the Patriots quarterback, Drake Maye, mid-throw. Uchenna Nwosu snatched it in stride and rumbled 45 yards to the end zone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/08\/super-bowl-lx-seahawks-patriots\">sealing Seattle\u2019s 29\u201113 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That the league\u2019s top defense was able to punctuate this moment, more than a decade in the making, with an interception as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/03\/malcolm-butler-interception-super-bowl-seahawks-patriots-nfl\">Super Bowl XLIX hero Malcolm Butler<\/a> looked on made the Seahawks\u2019 revenge all the sweeter. \u201cThey lived up to the Dark Side today,\u201d the Seattle head coach, Mike Macdonald, said of his defense. \u201cIt\u2019s going to go down in the history books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/10\/seattle-seahawks-defense-super-bowl-dark-side-nfl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seahawks\u2019 Legion of Boom terrorized opponents in the 2010s. Now a new unit has taken up the mantle \u2013 and delivered another title Super Bowl LX was a two-score game with less than five minutes remaining. New England had the ball on the Seahawks\u2019 44-yard line and \u2013 after reaching the end zone in &#8230; <a title=\"Welcome to the Dark Side: Seattle\u2019s brutal, Super Bowl-winning defense is here to stay\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/welcome-to-the-dark-side-seattles-brutal-super-bowl-winning-defense-is-here-to-stay\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Welcome to the Dark Side: Seattle\u2019s brutal, Super Bowl-winning defense is here to stay\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}