Her comment in the locker room had not fallen on deaf ears, but finishing the initial stage up was important to him, to let the feelings wash over, and to set the stage for her to understand what everything was like. Now that he was finished it was time to address her comment and her two questions. "Hmmm. well cleaning out that locker back in there had nothing to do with giving up on my career, that was going to happen one way or the other. It wasn't like I played for the Seahawks, we were just visiting from Cleveland, so win or lose, injured or not, that locker was going to need cleaning out."<br/><br/>He wasn't sure if she had understood that in the beginning, but hopefully she did now. The other part, her two questions took a hot minute to think about and while Mark did so he looked up into the row of seats and slowly turned around 360 degrees. "Playing in the SuperBowl was an amazing feeling, before the game the adrenaline was amped up to the max, guys were anxious, but we were ready. When game time rolled around I told them, 'this is just another game, like all others. Play our game, play our style, listen to the coaches, and we will come out on top.' I had to be a leader in that locker room despite  being a young quarterback, and it all seemed to work out pretty well."<br/><br/>Then he thought about the play in particular, the one where the game was on the line. "Coach told me to call the fly route, the 'Hawks weren't likely to blitz since they would want to defend the pass going into the endzone, or so we all thought. I missed it, the O-line missed it, they disguised the blitz well, and when Wags came free straight up the middle I never saw him coming. I was focused too hard on my guy, one of the linemen bumped into Wags and all of that weight, over five hundred pounds of mass with excessive force, came crashing into my leg. I never saw the pass complete itself, had no idea the game was won, hell I didn't even care. I was the SuperBowl MVP and I never got to have my..." he did air quotes at this point, "...moment in the sun."