Well, ladies and gentlemen, the final game of the 2025-26 National Football League season is nearly upon us, as we’ll all be tuned in tomorrow to see the New England Patriots face off against the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX.
We asked all of you out there who you thought was going to win this one, and. . .well, there is defintely a pronounced lean.
Of those readers who responded to our poll, a full 87% believe that the Seattle Seahawks will take home their second Lombardi Trophy tomorrow, with just 13% believing that the Patriots will pull off the upset (the folks at FanDuel currently have the Seahawks as a 4.5-point favorite). I suppose that’s an understandable feeling. Even though it isn’t the Brady/Belichick Patriots anymore, I’m sure there are still a lot of people who still have Patriots fatigue. The Seahawks do present a solid potential alternative.
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We also asked about whether or not you, as a Vikings fan, would be happy for Sam Darnold if the Seahawks should come out with the victory tomorrow, given Darnold’s history with the Vikings. There’s a pretty solid majority answer to this question as well.
Of those who responded to our poll, 89% said that they would be happy for Sam Darnold if he were to lead the Seahawks to a victory.
Well, put me in the minority, I guess. Nothing personal against Darnold per se, honestly, although I wish he had managed to find a way to not be awful when he could have taken the Vikings on a playoff run last year. It’s just that, quite frankly, I don’t care when former Vikings go on to have this level of success with teams that aren’t the Vikings. If the Patriots win, I’m not going to care that Stefon Diggs or Garrett Bradbury are getting a championship, and I wasn’t particularly moved when Percy Harvin, Sidney Rice, and Tarvaris Jackson (RIP) got rings the last time the Seahawks won a Super Bowl, either.
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There’s one team’s players I get happy for. Unfortunately, that team isn’t playing tomorrow. That team hasn’t played in a Super Bowl since I was three months old, and they didn’t win that one either. And if only being happy or caring about one team winning makes me a bad person or a bad fan. . .well, I guess I’m just a bad person or a bad fan. I can live with that.
Those are the results of our SB Nation Reacts poll for this Super Bowl week, folks. Thank you, as always, to everyone who participated, and keep your eyes open for more of these during the offseason as things move along.