Pete Carroll's 'gutsy' decision to throw the ball in the waning seconds of Super Bowl XLIX cost his Seattle Seahawks the trophy, but a similarly gutsy decision in the game's first half saved the halftime show.
Super Bowl XLIX Celeb Sightings
According to Baz Halpin, Katy Perry's creative partner for the intermission performance, the first and second quarter of the Super Bowl flew by so fast that the entire half time setlist was in jeopardy. Multiple elements of Perry's performance -- the mechanical lion she rode in on, the pyrotechnics, the drone-like device she soared on -- depended on it being after dusk.
"For months and months, I never panicked. Then the game was so fast -- how did we not think about the sun?" Halpin recalled, via Sports Illustrated. "It was a miracle."
The miracle Halpin speaks of came from Pete Carroll. Rather than kneel the ball and go into the locker room early, as most coaches would be wont to do, Carroll let his third-year quarterback Russell Wilson air it out aggressively.
The result was a long drive that ended with a Seahawks score. That drive in turn pushed back the start time of the halftime show. Halpin claims that Perry 'made darkness' by about 25 seconds.
Re-watch Katy Perry's Super Bowl XLIX half time show below. And thank the game's goat, Pete Carroll, for helping to make it happen...
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