This video has been floating around for a few days, but I got around to watching it because it’s 10 damn minutes long. So yes, this is a commitment, but the payoff is pretty sweet. A bunch of goober Seattle Seahawks fans are crushed when their team loses the Super Bowl.
The video is long because it takes you through a number of big plays that went in Seattle’s favor before getting to the payoff. That payoff is these clowns standing really close to the TV chanting “Beast Mode,” only to watch Badger great Russell Wilson throw an interception to the Patriots’ Malcolm Butler at the 1-yard line.
And then, disbelief.
The whole gang is here. You’ve got young Chachie with his totally douchetastic camera that mommy and daddy gave him for Christmas taking random crowd shots, drunk aunt Hildy who no one wants to celebrate with because she was caught vomiting off the back porch not two hours ago, and pederast cousin James, who’s sweet-ass mustache is finally coming in after all of these years.
One of my friends mentioned that this was kind of like how we felt watching the NFC Championship game. I disagree. It wasn’t nearly as sudden. When you’re in the midst of one of the all-time greatest collapses in NFL history, it just feels different. The fact that the Packers made it to overtime didn’t even matter to me. I already knew the game was over and the Packers weren’t going to win. You don’t recover from a collapse of epic proportions while you’re collapsing.
For Seattle, it was a sudden punch in the gut. For Green Bay, it was more like a snowball rolling down a hill. At some point, you just say, well, this obviously isn’t going to stop so I better just get out of the way.
That doesn’t make it any better, but this almost does.