More than a decade on, and Super Bowl XLIX still finds new ways to hurt.
Former Seattle Seahawks running back Robert Turbin has gone on record with a detail from the Glendale locker room after that fateful night that cuts right to the heart of how that dynasty came apart. And it is a detail that, once you hear it, you cannot unhear.
In a video making the rounds, Turbin described the scene after Malcolm Butler's interception at the goal line - the play that cost the Seahawks a second consecutive Super Bowl title with the ball inside the one-yard line, Marshawn Lynch on the sideline, a championship taken away from a team that had every reason to win it.
"I remember Sherm screaming at the top of his lungs, 'You took that from us,'" Turbin recounted. "And he was talking directly to Pete Carroll. And he had no answer... The emotion was just... it was like a reality show."
Richard Sherman - the best cornerback in the NFL at that moment, a man who had built his entire identity around being the smartest player on the field, who had called out receivers before games and backed it up on Sundays - standing in the locker room screaming directly at his head coach. And Pete Carroll, one of the most experienced and respected coaches in the game, standing there with nothing to say.
Because what do you say? What is the answer to "You took that from us" when the man screaming at you knows, and you know, and the entire football world knows, that a handoff to Lynch almost certainly wins the Super Bowl?
This isn't just a football story. It's a story about the moment when trust breaks. When a player looks at his coach and sees not the architect of a dynasty, but the man who made one catastrophic call that undid everything.
I covered a lot of postgame locker rooms in my ESPN Radio days. I've seen frustration and anger and devastation. But the image Turbin paints - Sherman at full volume, Carroll silent - is haunting in a way that goes beyond X's and O's.
