Super Seahawks dominate Denver in a disappointing Super Bowl

"It's all about us," Smith said. "We pay more attention to the things we're doing than [to] anybody else. We have principles we live by and play by. We

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"It's all about us," Smith said. "We pay more attention to the things we're doing than [to] anybody else. We have principles we live by and play by. We watched a lot of Peyton, but the practice is definitely more important. We know how we're going to play, how we're going to look. We know what the weaknesses are and the spots that a smart QB like him would attack."

Seattle got the reputation as a hipster city with soft fans, which was ridiculous, but hey, reputations don't have to be accurate. It took this team to change that, and to heal some of the old sports-fan wounds. It took the best, toughest team in the league. The nation might wonder why the Super Bowl stunk. Seattleites know: Their team was just too great.

Published Feb 3, 2014

MICHAEL ROSENBERG

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and investigative stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of "War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest." Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year's best sportswriting. He is married with three children.

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