Andrew Luck tried not to watch the Super Bowl that he was one game away from playing in earlier this year, but he sort of couldn’t avoid it.
In a recent interview with ESPN’s Bob Holtzman, Luck said he only caught “a bit” of Super Bowl XLIX between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks.
“I told myself I wasn’t gonna watch. I was actually on a plane, got off and was making my way somewhere and stopped to eat dinner with my girlfriend,” he explained. “It was on in the background and I couldn’t help but glance. It was right at the end. What a thrilling finish, as a fan of football, to see.”
Had Luck not seen Malcolm Butler’s incredible interception that night, there’s no way he would have avoided seeing it by now. The play has probably been shown about 12,587,846,721 times on TV stations since February.
Still, Luck admits that he didn’t want to watch the game because it stings too much.
“There’s a big part of you that’s still salty (thinking), ‘Why couldn’t we be there? Why couldn’t we have taken care of business?'” he said. “That’s sports. You win or you lose. Hopefully we can make it someday.”
If you remember, Luck dropped a fantastic joke about Deflategate when asked about losing in the AFC Championship Game back in February. He’s an incredible competitor, which is one of the reasons he is going to be hands-down the best quarterback in the NFL in the very near future. We’d be shocked if he never appeared in or won a Super Bowl.
