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Seahawks Super Bowl Bound
Seattle keeps it close to win NFC Championship
(AP) - Richard Sherman did a overs, and Russell Wilson threw a
CenturyLink Leap.
35-yard touchdown pass on fourth
Golden Tate grabbed a 12th Man down for the winning points. Se­
flag and circled the field with it.
attle will meet Denver! 15-3) for the
Even team owner Paul Allen NFL title in two weeks in the New
made an appearance and gave a Jersey Meadowlands. It's the first
victory speech.
trip to the big game for the Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks are headed (15-3) since they lost to Pittsburgh
to the Big Apple for the Super Bowl. after the 2005 season.
"To see all our work that we put
The conference champs had the
in - the mornings, the nights, the best records in the league this year,
weights, all your life, as a young the second time the top seeds have
player and in the NFL," Malcolm gotten to the Super Bowl in 20 sea­
Smith said after his end zone inter­ sons. It also is a classic confronta­
ception with 22 seconds remaining tion of Denver's record-setting of­
clinched the 23-17 victory over the fense led by Peyton M anning
San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. against the NFL's stingiest defense.
"It's amazing."
Denver opened as a 1-point favor­
Seattle's top-ranked defense ite over Seattle on the Glantz-Cul-
forced three fourth-quarter tum- verLine.
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"It will be a great matchup,"
coach Pete Carroll said. "I think it's
an extraordinaryopportunity to go
against a guy that set all the records
in the history of the game."
Moments after Sherman tipped
Colin Kaepemick's pass to Smith
for the interception, the All-Pro
comerback jumped into the stands
behind the end zone, saluting the
Seahawks' raucous fans. With 12th
Man flags waving every where, and
"New York, New York" blaring over
the loudspeakers, C enturyL ink
Field rocked like never before.
"That's as sweet as it gets," said
Sherman, who also went into sev­
eral rants about 49ers wideout
Michael Crabtree, whom he called a
"sorry receiver."
"This is really special," added
Carroll, who has turned around the
Seahawks in four seasons in charge.
"It would really be a mistake to not
remember the connection and the
relationship between this football
team and the 12th Man and these
fans. It's unbelievable."
M NNM M M M N
Seattle
Seahawks'
Jermaine
Kearse
celebrates
after
catching a
touch-down
pass during
the second
half of the
NFL football
NFC
Champion­
ship game
against the
San Fran­
cisco 49ers,
Sunday, In
Seattle.
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PSU Players in Big Game
For the first time ever a pair of
former Portland State football play­
ers will meet in the Super Bowl.
Julius Thomas of the Denver Bron­
cos and DeShawn Shead of the
Seattle Seahawks will both play in
Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 2 at
MetLife Stadium in East Ruther­
ford, N. J.
Thomas, a Pro Bowl tight end
with the Broncos this season, was
a winner on Sunday as Denver beat
New England, 26-16, in the AFC
Championship. A 6-5,250-pounder
who played both football and bas­
ketball at Portland State from 2007-
10, Thomas had a team-high eight
receptions for 85 yards in the game.
Shead, a special teamer and
backup defensive back for the
Seahawks, was a winner as Seattle
defeated San Francisco, 23-17.
Shead, at 6-2, 220-pounds, played
forthe Vikings from2008-1 l.H edid
not record any statistics in Sunday's
NFC C ham pionship gam e but
played on kick and punt return
teams for the Seahawks.
The meeting of the former Viking
teammates means one of them is
guaranteed to be a Super Bowl
Champion.
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