SANTA CLARA, Calif — The dream ending was everything Sam Darnold, the 29-13 Super Bowl 2026 winner over the Patriots, imagined it would be … confetti raining down on him, embrace after embrace with his Seahawks brothers, the Lombardi Trophy pleading with him to hoist it.
Superman Sam.
It was a moment for which he waited eight years, some of which tested his soul but never broke his spirit or his love of the game.
Here, finally, was the light at the end of the long and winding tunnel he never stopped chasing from Florham Park, N.J., to Charlotte, N.C., to San Francisco to Minneapolis to Seattle to Levi’s Stadium on Sunday.
