SAN FRANCISCO — The Seahawks and Patriots meet again in Super Bowl 2026 — 11 years since Pete Carroll’s offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell made the worst play call in Super Bowl history, 11 years since the football gods smiled down on Malcolm Butler and allowed him to make the dramatic, last-minute, goal-line interception that changed his life and the course of NFL history.
Butler was the most unlikely Super Bowl hero of all — an undrafted free agent rookie cornerback from Hinds CC and the University of West Alabama who snatched a back-to-back Super Bowl championship from Carroll and Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch and the Legion of Boom, and delivered Tom Brady and Bill Belichick their fourth Lombardi Trophy.
Butler, in an exclusive interview, took a trip down memory lane for The Post to recall his magical moment, one of the greatest plays in Super Bowl history, in the game he dreamed about as a boy in Vicksburg, Miss., that no one could possibly have seen coming.
“I was looking at Russell and I kept seeing him looking,” Butler said. “If they run the ball, I ain’t got nothing to do with it. But I do if it comes my way. I just took advantage of the opportunity.”