Seattle family blames Seahawks' 'lousy call' for husband's death

Pete Carroll, right.
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Here's one more thing you can blame on Seattle Seahawk's head coach Pete Carroll. In an obituary, a Seattle family blamed Carroll's game-losing "lousy play call" at the end of the Super Bowl for the "untimely death" of Michael Sven Vedvik, according to CBS Seattle.

But it's all in good fun apparently; Vedvik's death on the Monday after the Super Bowl had no relation to the game. "My husband would have thought it was hysterical," Stephanie Vedvik reportedly said.

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