Seattle – News outlets in the Seattle, WA, area are reporting that Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll has won the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot. Carroll apparently purchased the winning ticket at a Minneapolis-area convenience store just prior to the Seahawks’ playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings. The Seahawks coach claimed that he originally entered the store to purchase a pack of chewing gum but decided to purchase one Powerball ticket “just for shits”.

Update: Sources confirmed that Vikings’ kicker, Blair Walsh, purchased a ticket from the same convenience store just moments before Pete Carroll.