Super Bowl: New England/Seattle Notes

The Super Bowl meeting between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, will be the 17th time the two franchises have met. All 16 previous were regular season games.

Each team has won eight times. When Seattle was in the AFC, the teams met 13 times and have met three times since the Seahawks moved to the NFC.

It is interesting that the man who scored the first points ever in a Patriots vs Seahawks game was Tight End Don Hasselbeck, playing for New England in a (31-0) win over the second year Seahawks on October 9, 1977.

Don Hasselbeck is the father of two NFL quarterback sons. Tim, who had a brief NFL stint, and Matt, the longtime Seahawk QB, who is still active with the Indy Colts and was one round from facing “SEA” in this year’s “Supe.”

Matt played in more playoff games as the Seahawks quarterback (11) than any other Seattle quarterback. He also started in the Seahawks 2005 Super Bowl loss to to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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