Seahawks ride a dominating defense past Patriots to win Super Bowl LX

For an NBC pregame hit, San Francisco 49ers star Fred Warner sat in front of his locker. But none of his stuff was in it anymore. Only jerseys of an ocean blue and lime green complexion. 

"It's taking everything in me not to just start ripping stuff down in here," Warner said.

Seattle Seahawks gear defaced the home locker room at Levi's Stadium. Then came the Champagne geysers.

Warner rooted for the New England Patriots to protect his stomping grounds from a divisional rival. Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan was perhaps more realistic. Shanahan as a guest analyst correctly spent his pregame pick on the Seahawks, whose defense earned the franchise its second Super Bowl in a 29-13 win Sunday, Seattle's first title since the Legion of Boom in 2013. 

Super Bowl LX was a late bloomer. Fans waited until the fourth quarter to see touchdowns. Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold tossed one to uncovered tight end AJ Barner. Patriots quarterback Drake Maye answered with a 35-yard long ball to wide receiver Mack Hollins. And even a streaker made an appearance.

Of course, a spurt of intrigue was just a temporary distraction from the brainchild of Seahawks second-year head coach Mike Macdonald. 

Maye subsequently threw an interception and got contorted amid another on back-to-back possessions. Cornerback Devon Witherspoon sprinted through him unblocked on the second INT. Then linebacker Uchenna Nwosu took the jarred football 45 yards to the opposite end zone.

Seattle finished with six sacks, including one strip sack. Shanahan was asked to preview the same daunting Seahawks defense that held the 49ers to three field goals in eight quarters last month: "I know you guys want my expert opinion, but I haven't scored a touchdown on these guys the last two times we played them," he said. "So I don't know how good that is."

With the MVP runner-up at quarterback, they were shut out in the first half. No team with zero points at halftime of a Super Bowl has ever won.

Thanks to running back Kenneth Walker, who chipped in 100 scrimmage yards through two quarters and ended with 161, three field goals off the right foot of Seahawks kicker Jason Myers was all the last two NFL teams standing had to show for.

The first half of the Super Bowl basically opened for Bad Bunny, the main headliner.

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