SEATTLE – For a team that was the joke of the NFL playoffs, look who’s laughing now.
Pete Carroll, Matt Hasselbeck and a Seattle team no one believed deserved to be in the postseason pulled off one of the biggest upsets with a 41-36 victory over the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints on Saturday.
Who dat say the Seahawks don’t belong?
Hasselbeck threw four touchdown passes and Marshawn Lynch scored on an electrifying 67-yard run with 3:22 left, and the party was on at the NFL’s loudest stadium.
The Seahawks (8-9) held a 34-20 early in the fourth quarter before Drew Brees looked ready to lead the Saints (11-6) on one of their patented comebacks. But Lynch broke about a half-dozen tackles for his TD to finish off the Saints.