Sure, Puka Nacua Did Make Enjoyable of Seahawks QB Sam Darnold in Viral Super Bowl Tweet

Rams star huge receiver Puka Nacua didn’t imply to begin a heated controversy over his tweet about Sam Darnold in the course of the Super Bowl, however that’s what ended up taking place. Last month, Nacua posted to his X account a laughing face emoji and name-dropped the Seahawks quarterback throughout his Super Bowl LX win over the Patriots, main many NFL followers to consider he was throwing shade at his NFC rival.

Nacua lastly addressed his now-viral tweet and admitted he had, in actual fact, been laughing at Darnold. But not for the explanations others might imagine.

The Rams star defined he was making enjoyable of Darnold over a foolish in-game second involving the Seahawks quarterback.

“It’s a point in the game where [Darnold] tries to take a knee and he kind of falls into the Patriots guy’s lap,” Nacua said on the One Night with Steiny podcast. “And the guy tries to help him up and he doesn’t take it. So that’s where it came from.”

It was solely after his tweet began to make the rounds on social media that Nacua realized his light-hearted dig was getting blown out of proportion.

“But then after everybody started playing like, ‘Yo, we beat you guys. The Rams suck. Sam Darnold owns you.’ I was like, ‘All right, I’m not going to explain myself now’… It was too far already,” mentioned Nacua.

The Rams went 1-2 towards the Seahawks final season together with the playoffs, and two of these video games arguably stand alone as probably the most memorable of 2025. In December, Seattle outlasted L.A. in a 38-37 time beyond regulation thriller that ended with the Seahawks, who have been down by as many as 16 factors within the fourth quarter, finishing a game-winning 2-point conversion.

Roughly a month later, the Seahawks received the higher of their NFC foes once more within the convention championship recreation. Darnold, now not seeing ghosts, threw for 3 touchdowns and, with the assistance of the Seahawks’ top-ranked protection, punched Seattle’s historic ticket to the Super Bowl with a 31-27 victory over the Rams. The Seahawks in the end went on to beat the Patriots 29-13 to clinch their first Lombardi Trophy since 2014.

Following unfruitful stints with the Jets and Vikings, Darnold gained his first-ever Super Bowl in his debut season with the Seahawks, revitalized his NFL profession and should have emphatically silenced his critics as soon as and for all—apart from Nacua, that’s.

“I’m definitely going to keep [the rivalry] going. That’s what makes it fun,” mentioned Nacua.

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