By Kyle Feldscher, CNN

San Francisco (CNN) — It’s one of the most memorable plays in Super Bowl history. It remains one of the most baffling decisions in the history of professional football. And its ramifications are still being felt 11 years later as the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots face off in Super Bowl LX.

There were 27 seconds left in Super Bowl XLIX and the Seahawks trailed by four to Tom Brady’s Patriots. Seattle needed one single yard to clinch its second-straight Super Bowl and usher in a new dynasty in the Pacific Northwest. In the backfield was one of the best running backs in the league, a destroyer named Marshawn Lynch.

Everybody in Glendale, Arizona, and around the world thought the ball was going to be in Lynch’s hands to get that final yard and clinch the game. Everybody was wrong.

“When I got in the game, I’m like, ‘Man, what can I do?’ I really can’t do nothing. They run the ball, I’m not gonna make that tackle, right? I’m not gonna make that tackle. I – excuse my language – I’m damn near wanting to leave from the cornerback position and go in the box and play linebacker, yeah?” former Patriot cornerback Malcolm Butler told CNN Sports on Thursday. “But I said, I’m just gonna do my job. And I went against the odds. They did too.”

What would happen next – Russell Wilson taking the snap, turning to Ricardo Lockette and firing a pass only for Butler to get there first and intercept the ball – changing the two franchises in ways that will last for the rest of their histories.

That win in February 2015 broke a 10-year Super Bowl drought for the Patriots and sent Brady and Bill Belichick into a second dynasty, cementing their places as the greatest quarterback and head coach of all time. Seeds sown during that incredible run – three more Super Bowls appearances, two of them resulting in championships, in the next five years – grew into a divorce that forced New England’s first wholesale rebuild in a generation.

For the Seahawks, it represented the moment the waters began to recede from the franchise’s golden era.

Lynch believes the Legion of Boom defense combined with himself, Wilson and a host of cornerstone receivers could have gone on to win at least one more Super Bowl if not more. The dynasty of the 2010s could have been blue-and-green rather than red-white-and-blue. Instead what followed was the slow disintegration of a championship core, an inability to reclimb the mountain and the slow, depressing slide into lamenting what could have been.

And it all started with one baffling choice.

Breaking Beast Mode

When he heard the play call in the huddle, Lynch was so stunned that he couldn’t really process what had just happened.

“If you go back and you look at the play, … I’m processing ,I’m lined up on the wrong side. I line up on the wrong side,” Lynch told Shannon Sharpe on the Club Shay Shay podcast in in 2023.

“I’m bouncing from back and forth behind (Wilson) like, oh s**t. By the time it sat in like, ‘M**********r, what did you just call?,’ you just hear all the cheering from the other sideline.”

Lynch said everyone in the huddle aside from Wilson was rocked by the decision to pass instead of run.

For a split second, it looked like Lockette might make the play. He had a lane to run through once the ball got to him. Butler simply beat him to the ball.

“It didn’t work out right. Guy made a move like he was gonna do something, and I said, ‘I’m gonna do something too.’ And just believing in getting another opportunity, and you might get a small opportunity,” Butler said, describing his mindset as the ball was snapped. “Like that game was supposed to have been over, but it wasn’t. But, like, that’s the point of taking advantage of these small opportunities and big opportunities when it when they present themselves.”

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - After inland thunderstorm chances for Friday night, we will clear out and warm up Saturday through Sunday to near 75 degrees and mostly sunny skies.

Northeast offshore winds will also increase this weekend helping cause the near 10 degrees of warming.

We cool to the high 60s Monday ahead of light rain chances for midweek.

A stronger and cold rainstorm will arrive around Valentine's Day weekend with higher rainfall amounts and impacts expected.

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The conversation is still going, but cooler temperatures send people back inside. For many homeowners, outdoor time ends earlier than planned.

Outdoor space has taken on a new role in American homes. Once treated as a seasonal bonus, backyards, patios and decks are increasingly expected to function as true extensions of daily living rather than occasional warm-weather escapes.

A new survey of U.S. homeowners from Bromic Heating, a company specializing in infrared outdoor heating, suggests that while interest in spending time outdoors is strong, many struggle to use their outdoor spaces the way they want to.

Outdoor living is no longer just for summer

For many homeowners, leisure time no longer means packing a bag or booking a flight. Outdoor space is increasingly seen as something that can rival a vacation. In fact, 42% say they would rather invest in creating an outdoor oasis at home than take a trip away.

Outdoor space is tied to more than appearance. Nearly all (92%) homeowners say spending time outdoors is important to their mental and emotional health, and an equal share say their ideal home includes an outdoor space designed for everyday living, gathering or entertaining.

Bromic Heating

The problem is not interest. It is time cut short.

Despite strong enthusiasm for outdoor living, time outside often ends sooner than people want. Many homeowners say they wish they could spend more time outdoors at home than they currently do.

The reason is not hard to identify. As temperatures drop, outdoor spaces are often the first part of the home to go unused.

More than 3 in 5 homeowners say colder weather is a primary reason they do not spend more time outdoors at home.

Once cooler weather sets in, use declines sharply. Eighty-six percent of homeowners say they use their outdoor space much less, or stop using it entirely, during the cooler months.

Bromic Heating

Planning decisions do not ma

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As soon as John Seigel-Boettner invites passengers onto his black trishaw, a three-wheeled electric bicycle with two extra seats upfront, downtown Santa Barbara seems to smile. Pedestrians wave and call out greetings. Children stop midstride. With his silver mustache, a cheerful “Mr. Rogers” t-shirt and his favorite motto on his chest — “Believe there is good in the world” — Seigel-Boettner is a familiar sight in this coastal city.

He has been coordinating the local chapter of Cycling Without Age (CWA) since 2019. Effortlessly charming and still ferociously fit at 70 years old, he gives rides at least twice a week. Though the people who ride upfront don’t pedal, he doesn’t call them “passengers” but “riding partners” to emphasize the program’s spirit of companionship.

“Cycling Without Age is about connection,” Seigel-Boettner tells Reasons to be Cheerful. “It’s about the conversations between pilot and partner and the connection with everyone we meet along the way.”

On this particular morning, his front-seat companion is 97-year-old Elizabeth Wright, a spry and witty resident of a local senior home who has been riding with him for many years. “My name means I’m always right,” she says as she introduces herself. Winding past palm trees, through a leafy neighborhood, and out toward the beach, she waves to her favorite street musician and recalls moments from her long life as a caregiver, activity coordinator, poet and writer.

“This is where I bartended,” she says with a broad grin, pointing to a coastal pub, and tugs her blanket close in the morning breeze, her thin hands knotted with age. The ocean glints ahead. For a moment, she seems to fold into her younger self.

CWA was born in Copenhagen in 2012, when Danish management consultant Ole Kassow borrowed a rickshaw on a whim and offered an elderly gentleman from a care home a ride. Kassow had watched his father, who lived with multiple sclerosis, grow increasingly isolated. As his formerly extrovert father’s world shrank, so too did his sense of connection. When Kassow later worked in a care home, he saw a lot of the same issues his dad had been struggling with.

“Elderly people come into a nursing home,” Kassow says, “and their world gets smaller and smaller and smaller, until they just sit inside within their four walls.”

From that one act of kindness a movement spread, first across Denmark and then across the world. Today the nonprofit CWA spans more than 3,600 chapters and 50,000 volunteers in 41 countries, including in 25 U.S. states. It works in bike-friendly Copenhagen as well as in New York City. Each chapter operates somewhat differently according to local needs, but all share five guiding principles: Generosity, slowness, storytelling, relationships, without age. A visually impaired passenger called the initiative the “right to wind in your hair.”

The trishaws cost anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000 each, some modified to fit wheelchairs. “When you consider the impact of one trishaw and think about how m

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A tangled, white ribbon wrapped around brown hills and barren shrubs at Soldier Hollow Nordic Center on Tuesday, Jan. 27. It was a little more than a week before the start of the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy. It was also exactly two weeks and eight years before Utah takes the stage to host its second Winter Games.

Yet the prospect of hosting elite-level snowsport competitions here is difficult to fathom given the incessant lack of snow and persistent warm temperatures.

That’s especially true at Soldier Hollow. At an elevation of 6,000 feet, it’s the lowest base among Utah’s 2034 venues, and most at the mercy of climate change. Local organizers acknowledge the fact, and a recent study said the venue — which is slated to host biathlon and cross country races — could be too warm to reliably host both Games in the near future.

“We’ve gotten less than three inches of snow this winter, so that’s been interesting,” said Luke Bodensteiner, general manager at Soldier Hollow, which over the past three decades has averaged about 20 inches in January alone. “We’ve actually gotten more rain than snow this year,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune.

No, the snow isn’t falling at Soldier Hollow. But neither is the sky.

This warm, dry, brown winter is driving home the ripple effects a warming planet can have on the ski industry and the Olympics, said Fraser Bullock, the Utah 2034 president. Still, he said, he’s confident the state can weather similar conditions if they arise in 2034 and beyond. All it needs is state-of-the-art snowmaking, a flexible calendar and, maybe, a sprinkle of salt.

Is snowmaking the answer?

Like a slip peeking out under a skirt of snow, the brown and craggy rocks of the mountainside show on either side of the ski run. The scene could be at almost any of Utah’s ski resorts this winter. Instead, it was mid-January at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, the site of the women’s downhill ski competitions for the 2026 Olympics, which began Friday, Feb. 6.

Like Utah, Italy has experienced an unusually dry and warm winter. It has been so dry that Johan Eliasch, president of the International Ski Federation, voiced concern in early January that the ski courses wouldn’t have enough snow in time for the Olympics. He also blamed Italian officials for the shortage.

Then Italy turned up its snowguns to full tilt.

“We have been very lucky with the cold weather,” Eliasch said last week, according to a report by Barron’s. “Snow production has been able to comme