Green Bay Packers Super Bowl Run in NFL
Video: Packers NFL Championship Game highlights.
Wilson had thrown 4 interceptions, but led Seattle on 2 scoring drives late in the 4th quarter to erase a 19-7 deficit. After a 1-yard TD run by Wilson cut the lead to 19-14, the Seahawks recovered an onsides kick just before the 2-minute warning. Three plays later, Marshawn Lynch took it in from 24 yards out for Seattle’s first lead 22-19 after the 2-point conversion.
But the Packers weren’t finished. Mason Crosby’s 48-yard field with 14 seconds left in regulation tied the game and sent it to the extra period. Green Bay never got the ball in OT as Seattle won in walk-off style.
On the game’s opening possession, the Packers drove to the Seattle 29-yard line, but Richard Sherman jumped in front of Davonte Adams and intercepted an Aaron Rodgers pass in the end zone on a 3rd and 10 play.
But on Seattle’s 3rd play from scrimmage, Russell Wilson was intercepted by Ha Ha Clinton-Dix on a deflection and the Pack got the ball inside the Seahawks’ 20. That play set up the first score of the game.
After taking over at the Seattle 19, Green Bay had to settle for an 18-yard Mason Crosby field goal and a 3-0 lead with just over 8 minutes left in the 1st quarter.
The Seahawks stopped 2 rush attempts from 1-yard out to force the field goal. John Kuhn ran for what was called a touchdown, but replay reversed the call, saying Kuhn’s elbow was down. Eddie Lacy was then stopped on 3rd.
On the ensuing kickoff, Doug Baldwin fumbled and the Pack got it back at the Seahawks’ 23.
After Morgan Burnett recovered Baldwin’s fumble on the kickoff at the Seattle 23, the Seahawks’ defense held the Packers out of the end zone and forced another Crosby field goal, this one from 19 yards out.
The Packers led 6-0 with 5:07 left in the 1st quarter.
Julius Peppers and the Green Bay D forced a Seattle punt on the next possession. Peppers had a sack of Wilson.
Crosby nailed a 48-yard field goal, his 4th of the game, to give the Packers a 19-7 lead with just under 11 remaining in the game.
After the Seahawks grabbed some momentum with a touchdown on a fake field and a defensive stop, the Packers’ defense stepped up and held Seattle from moving the ball.
James Starks had a 32-yard run on the drive which put the Packers in Seattle territory.
On the ensuing drive, the Seahawks got to the Green Bay 45, but Wilson was sacked then Seattle was forced to punt.
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