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As Super Bowl 60 ended, Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald was dumped in Gatorade, shook hands with the opposing coach, and then kind of awkwardly stood there and looked up to the sky for several seconds.
A day after a dominant performance from his all-time defense, Macdonald fulfilled the American tradition of appearing on late night television. He was a guest Monday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” where he discussed what caught his attention in the sky.
“I have bad history with memes now, between that and ‘We did not care,’” Macdonald joked on ‘Kimmel.’
“It all happened really fast, we tried to tackle a guy in bounds so the game would end. Then the game’s over, one of our coaches is like, ‘Hey, you just won the Super Bowl,’ I was like, that’s pretty cool.
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“Then the Gatorade came, which was awesome. But then there’s cameras everywhere. And so, I’m like awkward, I’m not trying to look at the cameras. I don’t know what to do.
“There are fireworks, so my head goes up. I was looking at the fireworks.”
Super Bowl felt like a home game, Macdonald says
The New England Patriots offense was unable to get anything going all game. Macdonald discussed one advantage his defense had — environment.
The game was played at Levi’s Stadium, home to the San Francisco 49ers, in Santa Clara, California. A much closer travel distance for passionate Seahawks fans from the Pacific Northwest, compared to Patriots fans on the East Coast.
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“Must have been 75-25, it felt like,” Macdonald said Monday.
“When you come play on a road game (in Seattle), it’s hard to do a verbal cadence for the quarterback to snap the ball because they can’t hear. You have to have some sort of silent cadence, where you lift the leg.
“Their offense was on silent cadence the whole game, which gives us an advantage on defense. Our offense was able to use verbal cadence, where Sam could give all the commands to the center. It was like playing a home game.”
The Seahawks defense is considered one of the all-time greats. Macdonald also made NFL history, becoming the first defensive play-caller to win the Super Bowl as head coach. His response to that achievement was simple:
“Somebody’s gotta call ‘em,” he said.
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