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The Seattle Seahawks looked about as dominant as a team can look in their 41-6 dismantling of the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday. The win, which sent the Seahawks to the NFC Championship Game, has many NFL fans thinking they’ve got a great shot at returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 2014 season and potentially winning their second championship. Although, according to Bill Simmons, it might be their first? On the latest episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Simmons and Cousin Sal were running down the potential Super Bowl matchups when The Ringer head honcho let slip that he is under the impression the Seahawks have never won one before. Bill Simmons last night: “Seattle’s never won a Super Bowl” pic.twitter.com/9o09wb08w2 — The r/BillSimmons Podcast (@rBillSimmonsPod) January 19, 2026 “I think Seattle-New England’s the best one because Seattle’s never won a Super Bowl,” said Simmons. “And they’d be getting their revenge on that.” Simmons was referring to Super Bowl XLIX, when the Patriots defeated the Seahawks, 28-24, thanks in part to a game-winning interception by Malcolm Butler at the one-yard line. Unfortunately, The Sports Guy seems to have forgotten Super Bowl XLVIII a year earlier, where Seattle dominated Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos in a 43-8 shellacking. The Seahawks also played in Super Bowl XL after the 2005 season, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Simmons’ faux pas did not go unnoticed by listeners… bill simmons legitimately does not know that the seahawks have won a super bowl. comes up multiple times in the first 30 mins or so of the most recent episode. unreal. — richard (@richard_normal) January 19, 2026 Bill Simmons when he tries to remember recent Super Bowl winners pic.twitter.com/mhTgNuWVjr — The r/BillSimmons Podcast (@rBillSimmonsPod) January 19, 2026 I’m 22 minutes into @BillSimmons podcast, and he’s still forgetting the fact that Seahawks won the Super Bowl in 2013, like he thinks they’ve never won it. He’s so focused on the fact Russ blew it on the goal line that he can’t even remember that they won the year before lmao — Geoff Hunter (@gmhunter22) January 19, 2026 Simmons has been taken to task over the years over missteps, wild theories, and bold takes. Such is the life of someone in his position, where the spotlight is always on his commentary. However, by all accounts, he remains one of the most influential and successful people in podcasting and sports media. The post Bill Simmons doesn’t seem to remember the Seahawks won a Super Bowl appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The Indiana Hoosiers will play for the college football national championship on Monday night. That’s a sentence no college football fan ever thought they’d read in their lifetime. On November 30, 2023, Curt Cignetti was named IU’s head football coach, the latest in a long line of well-intentioned leaders thrown to the wolves to presumably be lunchmeat for the Big Ten’s big dogs. With one winning season in the previous 16 years, and a longstanding reputation as one of the losingest programs in the sport, not much was expected of Cignetti, who had spent the last five seasons turning James Madison into a formidable team. At his introductory press conference, a reporter asked Cignetti how he planned to sell his culture to potential recruits and transfers “It’s pretty simple. I win,” he said without a hint of irony. “Google me.” The only thing more shocking than hearing the new head coach of Indiana football call down the thunder like that was that he has backed it up and then some. In the two seasons since, Cignetti has turned the Hoosiers into a legitimate power program. After going 11-1 and making the College Football Playoff in his first season, the 64-year-old head coach led the Hoosiers to an undefeated 2025 campaign, a Big Ten title, and now to the national championship game. Along the way, they defeated Ohio State, Oregon (twice), and Alabama. On Saturday, Cignetti was asked whether he thought this kind of success would come so soon after that infamous introduction. “I don’t think I ever thought that far away, honestly. It was such a quick hiring process, and then when I got here, I found out so many things I didn’t know, 10 offensive starters in the transfer portal, and some other things that — like two universes colliding,” Cignetti told reporters. “We had pretty much won championships year in and year out, and doom and gloom on the Indiana side, and that’s kind of why I got out there a little bit the way I did. “I knew I was out on a limb. I had to find out if the fan base was dead or on life support. The basketball game was the first thing, and then Google me was our press conference, signing day press conference, when I was asked the same question for about the 14th time. I had a lot of confidence in myself and the staff because we had had success. That’s why I took the job. But I can’t say I ever thought this far ahead.” The irony is that Cignetti has only made his Google results better since throwing down the gauntlet. On Monday night, he has the chance to make them unimpeachable. The post Curt Cignetti reflects on infamous ‘Google me’ press conference: ‘I knew I was out on a limb’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.