Senator: Seahawks made wrong call on 1-yard line

Add Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) to the list of the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl critics.

Speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, Coats panned President Obama’s recent budget proposal as a “bad call” not unlike the one that sunk the Seahawks Super Bowl chances on Sunday.

“Much like the Seahawks coach’s decision on the one yard line, the president made the wrong call,” he said.

“In my opinion and in the opinion of many, the right call would have been a plan that actually puts us on a path towards a balanced budget, addresses a skyrocketing mandatory spending burden and reforms our outdated tax code.”

A Seahawks victory looked all but assured with less than a minute to go in the game and the team on the one-yard line.

When Seahawks coach Pete Carroll decided to call a pass play instead of a run, which is statistically safer, quarterback Russell Wilson threw a game-ending interception.

Carroll’s play choice has been debated endlessly by sports analysts, and is likely to go down in sports history as one of the worst calls of all-time.

Obama’s budget, meanwhile, isn’t moving in the Republican-controlled Congress, but is considered a playbook for his priorities for the next year.