Why Mike Macdonald hasn’t watched Seahawks’ Super Bowl win, and won’t next week
Winning the Super Bowl was so over-the-top grand for Mike Macdonald, he hasn’t had the need to watch it again.
The Seahawks coach said Wednesday, 17 days after the game, he has yet to watch the film of his team’s 29-13 domination of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60.
“Still haven’t. No,” he said, grinning.
This week he’s too busy at the NFL combine scouting potential new Seahawks in this spring’s draft. He’s also getting updates from general manager John Schneider on the GM’s meetings here in Indianapolis with the agents for Seattle’s pending free agents. Those are primarily Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker, Pro Bowl kick returner Rashid Shaheed, cornerback Riq Woolen and safety Coby Bryant, among others.
Macdonald also is meeting with his assistant coaches here in Indiana’s capital city.
“Going to Hawaii next week,” Macdonald said. “So I ain’t watching it there, either.”
He smiled another champion’s grin.
Macdonald is going on vacation, to Hawaii, presumably with his wife Stephanie and their toddler son, Jack.
That’s going to be going on a month that the habitually detailed, no-stone-unturned coach hasn’t reviewed the plays from the second NFL championship in the franchise’s 50-year history.
Why not?
“I’m a psycho,” a noticeably relaxed Macdonald said Wednesday inside the Indiana Convention Center. “And, yeah, it’s like, it’s a weird, like, sensation: Yeah, maybe I gotta let it cool down, I guess.
“Actually, I’m gonna watch the TV copy. Which I’ve never watched, a TV copy of a game.”
And why does the defensive mastermind who fiendishly watches coaches’ game film from the wide, high and all-22 angles want to watch NBC’s broadcast of Super Bowl 60?
For the same reasons many of the 125 million Americans watched the second most-viewed U.S. television program in history.
“I want to watch the commercials,” Macdonald said.
Life-changing win
The 38-year-old Macdonald had never been a head coach at any level before Schneider and Seahawks chair Jody Allen hired the former Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator in February 2024.
In just two seasons on the job, he’s won the Super Bowl.
It’s changed his daily life.
When Macdonald arrived at SeaTac Airport Monday for a commercial flight to Indianapolis, to the combine, he was mobbed by people inside the airport terminal. He graciously stopped to pose for pictures with fans, talking, chatting and signing autographs.
Once aboard the long flight east, the flight attendants paraded up and down the front of the jet where Macdonald was sitting. They wanted to say hi. And thanks.
Safe to say Macdonald flew to Indiana for last year’s combine far more incognito. “A lot of congratulations,” he said. “Thankful for all those people that have reached out.”
Yet when The News Tribune asked Macdonald Wednesday how life has changed for him this month since the Super Bowl win, the coach shrugged.
“Hasn’t changed much,” Macdonald said, shaking his head.
But he added: “It’s still surreal, that this all happened. I think you think you are a little insulated during the whole process (of the season, and the Super Bowl game itself). It will kind of unravel, I’m assuming, over time, where you can kind of go back and really cherish the memories. And obviously those are the things that you think about.
“But, life happens fast. There’s not as much time as you want to celebrate. The calendar rolls on.
“That’s what our focus is right now.”
This story was originally published February 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM with the headline "Why Mike Macdonald hasn’t watched Seahawks’ Super Bowl win, and won’t next week."
