Seahawks fan makes Super Bowl play call joke in husband’s obituary

The Seattle Seahawks lost Super Bowl XLIX on one crucial play and the loss just might have sent one fan to eternal rest.

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A lot of people were pretty upset by the Seahawks final play call to throw a slant to receiver Ricardo Lockette as opposed to running it in with Beast Mode running back Marshawn Lynch. The result was an interception and game over for Seattle.

In Kent, Washington, a short distance south of Seattle, it was also sadly game over for one fan who died from a heart attack some hours after the game. His wife memorialized him in the following obituary.

There were a lot of jokes about defibrillators and paramedics after and during the game, believe me, but unfortunately this is one that came true.

However, as the man’s wife explains, the Seahawks causing game over for her husband isn’t actually 100 percent true. She told the Spokesman Review that her husband had not been feeling well all day and had recorded the Super Bowl to watch later.

"“My husband would have thought it was hysterical,” she says. “If I had read this obituary to my husband about somebody else, he would have had a laugh.”She adds of the sentiment contained in that last sentence, “It was just so true because my husband would have said, ‘What a dumbass.’”"

Stephanie Vedvik found her husband, Mike Vedvik, dead at 7am in their Kent home. He was 53. Doctors presumed he died at around 4am, obviously quite a few hours after the conclusion of Super Bowl XLIX. According to Stephanie Vedvik, her husband had been feeling bad all day, but thought it was indigestion or stress (understandable considering) and refused to go to the doctor.

Meanwhile, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll hasn’t been sleeping well either since the fateful play call that led to his team’s loss. Carroll recently told the Today Show that he’s had trouble sleeping in the aftermath. More pointedly, that he wakes up during the night and then can’t get back to sleep while thinking about it.

“The sleep part works because you’re so worn out after the six months of the season that you can’t help but fall asleep. But it’s the waking up … and getting back to sleep [that] is the challenge.” (via the Today Show)

H/T SB Nation

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