SEATTLE (AP) — It took winning a Super Bowl and celebrating the championship for Bobby Wagner to gain a bit of clarity.
He came to understand that the Seattle Seahawks' domination of the Denver Broncos to win the Super Bowl in February 2014 was not the biggest game of that season. As joyous as it was for Seattle to win its first title in franchise history on that chilly night at the New Jersey Meadowlands, the game that felt more like a championship contest happened two weeks earlier.
That would be the NFC championship game: Seattle 23, San Francisco 17.