Seattle Seahawks and Super Bowl Notes

This Sunday will be the 49th Super Bowl game. If Seattle wins, they will be the first team to repeat as Super Bowl champions since their opponent, the New England Patriots, did so 10 years ago.

The Seattle Seahawks attempt to repeat as Super Bowl champions is the 12th time a team has reached the Super Bowl game in a bid to repeat as champions.

Eight of the eleven teams attempting to repeat as “Supe” winners, were successful in their bid to repeat as Super Bowl champions.

Seattle is hoping to join the 1978 and 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers as the only teams to host consecutive conference championship games and win the Super Bowl in those two seasons.

An interesting note on the city of Seattle: When the NBA franchise now known and located as the Oklahoma City Thunder, were the Seattle SuperSonics, they also made consecutive finals, losing in 1978 and winning in 1979. Each of those series were against the Washington Bullets.

Will they repeat?