Obit: ‘We blame the Seahawks lousy play call for Mike’s untimely demise’

You thought you took the Seahawks stunning Super Bowl loss hard? One family says it killed a beloved Kent businessman, albeit with their tongues firmly in cheek.

Michael Sven Vedvik died February 2 of undisclosed causes. But in an obituary published Thursday in the Spokane Spokesman Review, his family writes:

“We blame the Seahawks lousy play call for Mike’s untimely demise.”

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His wife Stephanie Vedvik says he would have thought the line was hysterical.

“He would want everybody to laugh and it’s just the way he was. He was just that kind of guy,” she tells KIRO Radio.

The 53-year-old Kent man actually didn’t see the game. He recorded the game, intending to watch it later, and went to sleep not feeling well, thinking it was indigestion or stress. He died in bed, Stephanie says.

The obituary says Vedvik, 53 – the owner of Gendron’s Surveying and Construction Instruments in Kent – loved his family, work, clients, traveling, the Seahawks and life.

Stephanie says his brother-in-law added the line about Seattle’s unsuccessful last play to the obituary and she approved.

Mike Vedvik’s funeral will be Saturday at Mount Spokane Church in Mead.

The Spokane native is survived by his wife and a large, extended family, many of whom seem to have a pretty big sense of humor, even in death.

“My husband was a very large personality and he was just his very own person,” says Stephanie, who admits she’s devastated by his untimely death. But she says the outpouring of support from family and friends has helped bring comfort in a time of such tragedy.

“He wouldn’t want us to sit around and cry, that would not be him at all,” she says.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.