GLENDALE, Ariz. — Darrell Bevell was 20 miles from home, but he really just wanted to go one yard. That was how far the Seattle Seahawks were from the winning touchdown in the final seconds of Sunday’s Super Bowl. How they would get there was Bevell’s decision.

As a teenager, Bevell and his father, Jim, would watch film of games together, pushing the button to make it go forward and back and forward again, analyzing what worked and what did not. Jim Bevell was the coach at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Darrell Bevell was his star quarterback.

“To be able to play in a Super Bowl here, you couldn’t even dream it up this good,” Darrell Bevell, 45, said last week.

And now here he was, with the game’s key calculation, the ball at the 1-yard line, the fourth-quarter clock ticking into the final half-minute, the N.F.L.’s toughest running back on the field.