Butler's interception

The Brandon Five said:

The first video on this YouTube is still my favorite reaction ("He picked it! He picked the f****ing ball! Yaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!".

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I don't think anything can beat the "BEAST MODE" chants just before the play and the shock right after it. That's comedy gold!

A close 2nd is the video's with dogs and they start getting all excited wondering what is everyone getting excited about?

Towards the end of the game my brother and I were watching upstairs while my parents and husband were downstairs. When that circus catch happened, I was almost in tears. I said to my brother "again? Why is this happening again?"

Then the pick happened. I screamed, my brother screamed, we hugged. My parents were freaking out downstairs. Then my brother and I ran around the house saying "you mad bro?!"

My dad died a few weeks later so that superbowl win is an awesome memory for us

FWIW, I was watching this year's Seattle/Atlanta playoff game last night and noticed Atlanta threw an easy 10 yard TD to Jones on that exact same play, except on the left side.

Schmo said:

FWIW, I was watching this year's Seattle/Atlanta playoff game last night and noticed Atlanta threw an easy 10 yard TD to Jones on that exact same play, except on the left side.

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That was the play that some said they should have called Offensive pass interference.

I just remember sitting there in disbelief, watching the Kearse catch, thinking not again...in the same damn spot, this is the 3rd Superbowl we are going to lose on some ridiculous, fluky catch. Then Hightower stuffed the run, and you could see the confusion with the Seahawks on the field. And I was yelling, call the timeout, why isn't he calling the timeout...call the f*cking timeout. But then the camera panned to BB and he was just staring across the field and I said, "he knows something. He's going to let them play". Then Butler undercut the route and just crushed Kearse. Kearse didn't know what hit him, he just was flying through the air, the look on his face was priceless. Like I was supposed to be the Superbowl hero. At first he just thought the ball was deflected, but then he saw Butler on the ground with the ball in his hands and his soul died a little bit. You could see him deflate, live on TV. By that time I was out of my seat screaming, "he picked the f*cking ball", jumping up and down. It was an awesome moment.

Wheelman said:

That was the play that some said they should have called Offensive pass interference.

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F*ck that ****, Butler had a right to the ball just as much as Kearse .

Wilson was throwing to Lockette in what turned out to be the biggest interception in NFL history, was he not?

cscirpoli said:

F*ck that ****, Butler had a right to the ball just as much as Kearse .

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I was talking about the Julio Jones touchdown against the Seahawks this playoffs. And I said Offensive pass interference. So, uhm, what exactly are you on about? lol

chris_in_sunnyvale said:

The whole "Why didn't they run the ball?" lament goes up in smoke if Butler doesn't hold onto that ball. I've seen enough high speed collisions between WRs and DBs at the moment the ball arrives to conclude that ball almost always ends up on the ground as a broken up pass. Just a miraculous catch by Butler. Maybe the odds of him holding onto that ball are on par with the odds of Lynch fumbling the ball away or not getting 1yd in 3 plays.

But he did hold onto that ball, so of course in hindsight the Seahawks blew the game. :rollseyes:

Regards,
Chris

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They didn't have time for three running plays, hence, the pick.

The winning play in the CFB championship game was the same, but Renfro went out and not in. And the Bama DB let the Clemson "picking" WR drive him down the field.

Wheelman said:

That was the play that some said they should have called Offensive pass interference.

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Absolutely, but it showed how the CB off of the line would usually guard the outside route, and how Malcolm's play was the complete opposite of luck.

Seahawks fans cry about not running Lynch, but that is actually a great play for the offense. Obviously, Wilson had never seen that route covered so tightly, otherwise he would have had some caution throwing it.

Browner' aggressive halting of Kearse preserved Butler's freedom of action - he did not commit until Lockett did. Then he went like he was shot out of a cannon.

I love Kevin Harlan's call

If you replay the interception at quarter speed in YouTube, everyone else looks like they are in slow motion except that Butler is accelerating at normal speed.

I was holding my two week old son as he had been a lucky charm all game. I'd put him down, Pats would slip. I held him and the Pats would drive. During the end of the fourth quarter I gently told him as he was beginning to fuss "I'm not giving you back to your mother until after the game." I was far more calm and quiet than I normally was when Kearse made that catch. I was in shock. "Not again," I said, "Is this the play I'm going to have to watch for the rest of my life?" The interception however? I lost it, cussing and yelling all the while holding my tiny son like a football in one arm. I had put the vid on YouTube and I got equal amounts of "That's awesome you got to share that moment with your kid!" and "It's despicable you stood there yelling "**** YOU!" at the top of your lungs at Richard Sherman holding a newborn." He's turned out alright so far. It's a moment I'll never forget. I hope to share a similar moment again with my two year old.

NCpatriot said:

I was holding my two week old son as he had been a lucky charm all game. I'd put him down, Pats would slip. I held him and the Pats would drive. During the end of the fourth quarter I gently told him as he was beginning to fuss "I'm not giving you back to your mother until after the game." I was far more calm and quiet than I normally was when Kearse made that catch. I was in shock. "Not again," I said, "Is this the play I'm going to have to watch for the rest of my life?" The interception however? I lost it, cussing and yelling all the while holding my tiny son like a football in one arm. I had put the vid on YouTube and I got equal amounts of "That's awesome you got to share that moment with your kid!" and "It's despicable you stood there yelling "**** YOU!" at the top of your lungs at Richard Sherman holding a newborn." He's turned out alright so far. It's a moment I'll never forget. I hope to share a similar moment again with my two year old.

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You're forgiven!!


Where's the video?

It was the most electrifying play I've ever witnessed. I was pretty sure we were going to lose after Kearse made the catch but I wasn't going to stop watching until they got into the endzone. I did mute the TV and had my thumb on the power button on the clicker ready to turn it off.

Then it happened, I tossed my clicker away, un muted, jumped up and down like a maniac. Then was in a state of shock for several minutes. Pretty amazing feeling.

Could not relax until Brady drew the defense offside on the GL though.

It still pisses me off that a lot of mediots and fans dismiss that play as being a bad call. It really wasn't. IIRC, Lynch was something like 1-6 that season scoring from the 1 yd line, and if he doesn't make it, Carrol would had have to run some kind of run/pass option, and the Pats would have known it too. So passing on 2nd down was actually the right call. If you were going to pass in that series THAT was the down to do it.

Also lost to most observers was the fact the chance of the Pats picking a pass off were about the same as Lynch fumbling. What a lot of people forget is that the most remarkable part of Butler's play, wasn't that he was there to break up the pass, but that he caught the ball even though he absorbed a big enough hit that it knocked the bigger receiver backwards. 99 times out of a hundred Butler simply breaks up the play and Seattle lines up again and NO one ever questions the call

BTW- After the Kearse miracle, and the Lynch 4 yd run, I joined a lot of people who turned the TV off because I couldn't bear to see another Pats Giants-like superbowl loss after a miracle catch. But I knew I had to suck it up and turned it back on to see Brady jumping and screaming like a 6 year old and trying to figure out what happened to create that scene. Now the reason for all that celebration is indelably imprinted in all Pats fans heads.

Fanfrom1960 said:

Wilson was throwing to Lockette in what turned out to be the biggest interception in NFL history, was he not?

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Yes, Ricardo Lockette iirc

After Kearse catch I just stood there in disbelief, my wife and daughter left the room. I started going through all the scenarios while watching the clock, trying to figure out how much time our offense was going to have if they scored.

I received a text from a friend of mine who's a Seahawks fan with a simple message, "Boom"

After the Lynch run, I thought for sure we'd call a timeout but when we didn't, I thought, "my God, this is going to end shortly and we may lose another one.
Once Butler did his thing,I liked for a flag and couldn't believe one wasn't thrown. I jumped up and down yelling, "HOLY SH@T WE PICKED IT OFF!!!! HOLY F#CKIN SH$T!!! several times
My wife and daughter ran in as the Seahawks jumped offsides and as my wife cheered and my daughter started crying tears of joy,we knew it was over.
I sent a text back to my friend with the simple message
"Boom"