Patriots vs. Seahawks: Super Bowl LX rematch recalls 2015 Butler interception

The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks meet in Super Bowl LX — the 60th edition of the game — airing Sunday, February 8 on NBC and Peacock. The matchup is a rematch of their previous Big Game meeting 11 years earlier. The Patriots, founded in 1959, did not reach the Super Bowl until the 1985 season (a loss to the Chicago Bears) and returned at the end of the 1996 season (a loss to the Brett Favre-era Green Bay Packers).

Their breakthrough came in the 2001 season, when Tom Brady and Bill Belichick launched a dominant run that took New England to nine Super Bowls and six wins, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers for most Super Bowl wins by a franchise. Brady and Belichick have since left the team; under head coach Mike Vrabel and quarterback Drake Maye, Patriots fans are hopeful for a return to glory.

The Seahawks, in the league since the mid-1970s, first reached the Super Bowl after the 2005 season — the first of three appearances over the next decade. Under coach Pete Carroll in the 2010s they won Super Bowl XLVIII at the end of the 2013 season and returned the following year but lost a close game.

XLVIII remains Seattle’s only Lombardi Trophy, and fans are hopeful the team will secure a second this time. Their prior Super Bowl meeting came at the end of the 2014 season, on February 1, 2015, in Super Bowl XLIX.

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