Seahawks tease in obituary would have drawn laugh, wife says

Michael Vedvik was a longtime Seahawks fan. So his wife thinks he’d laugh about the last line in his obituary that ran Thursday: “We blame the Seahawks lousy play call for Mike’s untimely death.”

That’s not 100 percent true, said Stephanie Vedvik.

It is true that Mike, a Spokane native and Rogers High School alumnus, had a heart attack just hours after the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl. And it’s true that most people think it was a lousy play call to have Russell Wilson pass the ball rather than give it to Marshawn Lynch for a 1-yard run.

But Mike Vedvik never saw the game. He recorded it to watch it later, his wife said.

“He hadn’t been feeling well on and off, but he wouldn’t go to the doctor,” she said. “He thought it was indigestion or stress.”

Stephanie Vedvik found her 53-year-old husband dead at 7 a.m. in their Kent, Washington, home; doctors think he died at about 4 a.m., she said.

Mike’s sister wrote  the obituary that appeared Thursday in The Spokesman-Review. His brother-in-law added the line about the Seahawks, Stephanie Vedvik said.

She approved.

“My husband would have thought it was hysterical,” she said. “If I had read this obituary to my husband about somebody else, he would have had a laugh.”

She added of the sentiment contained in that last sentence, “It was just so true because my husband would have said, ‘What a dumbass.’ ”