RENTON, Wash. -- Chris Carson was stopped. Twice.
Early in the fourth quarter of the Seattle Seahawks' loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, he took a shotgun handoff on fourth-and-goal from the 1 and ran into a wall at the line of scrimmage. He looked so dead to rights that two 49ers defenders started to run off the field in celebration, figuring the play was about to be whistled dead. As Pete Carroll would later point out, Seahawks play-by-play man Steve Raible assumed the same thing on the radio broadcast.