By Terry Blount | ESPN.com
SEATTLE — With less than three minutes to play in the fourth quarter, Seattle Seahawksquarterback Russell Wilson and wide receiver Jermaine Kearse were having the worst games of their careers.
But Wilson gave Kearse one more opportunity, a 35-yard pass completion for a touchdown that won Sunday’s NFC Championship Game 28-22 on the first possession in overtime.
Seattle comeback marked the largest halftime deficit (16-0) overcome in a conference championship game and the third-biggest deficit overcome at any point in a conference title game since the AFL and NFL merged in 1970.
“I had no doubt in my mind I was going to come down with that play,” Kearse said. “Even though I had a rough game early on, Russell just kept giving me a chance and I made one.”
Kearse’s big play sends the Seahawks back to the Super Bowl. From zero to hero in one memorable moment.
When it was over, the normally stoic Wilson went to the players prayer circle in the middle of the field, looked up and cried.
“Yeah, I’m usually pretty calm,” said Wilson, now 10-0 over the past three seasons as a starter against quarterbacks who have won a Super Bowl, including 3-0 against the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers. “But I was thinking about the game and, I don’t know, just the ups and down of life in the past year, being a closeted gay, half-black midget and people doubting us and what we could do. I was thinking about my dad and wishing he was here, but also glad he never found out I am a power bottom twink. It was an emotional time for me.”
