Well, of course they’re not going to be segregated. They’re going to be sitting wherever the seats are of the people who bought the tickets, many which will be season ticket holders who bought tickets, but cannot attend.
I expect there won’t be as many there as there are at away games vs. Bears, Lions, Vikings, but they will be there.
We actually have the a similar experience when we attend away games for Syracuse basketball. I am always floored by the number of Syracuse fans we find at away games. The last game we went to, a couple of years ago against Marquette, there were almost as many Orange fans as there were Marquette.
Too bad they aren’t segregated— and placed in a teeny-tiny corner at the far end of the stadium.
If I were a STH I would not sell to the fans of the other team. I appreciate that in the sections of the soccer stadium where I have my season tickets, any fans that have on the other team’s jersey are kicked out of the section.
I am lactose intolerant so I will go without dairy for the weekend.
I saw that a Milwaukee radio station is boycotting Seattle musicians for the duration.
Don’t know how much of a dent that will put in their playlist.
Alice in Chains is going to be playing at halftime.
I think of Green Bay as being almost a national team; at least, they’ve been around so long, and have been championship - caliber in so many separate eras that they have fans all over the country, including in Seattle. I hope and expect that if Packer fans show up on Sunday, they’ll be treated courteously by the Seahawk fans. Seattle isn’t a thuggish place anyway.
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NEWS FLASH! Seattle-area city bans the consumption of cheese. My oh my, any Green Bay fan wearing team colors at Century Link Stadium this weekend will be about welcome as a Red Sox fan in Yankee Stadium. Ugh!
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If you have to censor freedom of expression before a football game, you know you’re in trouble.
I just wanted to let you know @romanigypsyeyes that the CC button to change your picture has disappeared from my profile (is there a limit?) so it will be my Babs look for the game it appears. I just didn’t want you to worry. In real life I had my Blue Friday jersey on. No beads for my team, though, but I do paint my nails and for the Super Bowl last year the dog’s nails as well. She’s a girly girl and likes her mani-pedis which makes it easier. Plus her nails are large enough that I don’t need my reading glasses.
So the more I read the comments on national media stories the more I realize that there is a broad perception that my team is made up of “thugs”. This is a real surprise to anyone involved in the love fest that is Seattle football these past few years. The early team when I was a kid was the super goody-goody Christian team. They even used the field at a local Christian college as a practice field. They didn’t win much but they tried hard and lost with style. I consider the Holmgren years as a dark time with players that I wasn’t particularly proud of. Pete C. has been churning the roster since he got here to get the combination of guys with the right attitude and he almost has it this year. The young class got paid this year and have stepped up as vocal team leaders really making everything gel. Their success is based on the relationship between them - even the offensive and defensive players.
I will totally give you Tate RE thugdom. His on AND off field behavior are nothing to write home about. He had a straw that broke the camel’s back off field incident that made it necessary to part ways. Ditto Harvin. It would have been nice to have had both those guys returning punts and kicks. They gave up a lot in terms of starting field position and explosive plays when they offloaded them but it was worth getting bad actors out of the locker room. Ricardo Locket who is primarily a special teams guy is the one left who gets way too many hit after the snap penalties. He has never worked into “the guy” in regular sets because of that.
I won’t try to convince anyone that they are all great guys on defense because I see that isn’t possible, but you should understand that they ARE and that’s why we love them. You might see them as thugs but if you spend time listening to their local interviews and finding out about them you would likely see it differently. They are well spoken, family oriented young men who are thoughtful and doing great things off the field as well. Many of them have come from great adversity and risen above it with a quality that Pete calls “grit” and uses as one of their recruiting metrics. As for trying to hurt people, their one focus is winning the ball. They don’t really focus on the opposing player at all (outside of the personal issue between Sherman and Crabtree which was an off field thing) their goal is to win the ball back for the offense and do everything in their power to support their teammates. I’m sure that sounds corny but that’s why the local love fest. Even Marshawn, if you ask him about his charity work, is quite talkative. He spends as much time as possible, even mid season, down in Oakland doing his work with kids. Ask him about that and he will talk all day.
So . . . I don’t expect you to love them and now see that more people hate them than I thought. I will just sit here drinking my Kool Aid and basking in the warm, fuzzy glow of the 12s. :x
I do admi that when a neighborhood restaurant decided they were going to sport Denvers colors inside and outside their restaurant last year, we stopped going, ( they also changed their menu from Creole to Tex- Mex) but generally- people are pretty good sports.
It wasn’t like it got egged or anything.
I lived in Kirkland when the Hawks practice field was off Lake Washington blvd, and one of my boyfriends lived above one of the linemen, who was very sweet, & huge. Another friend used to work in their front office. I still have rugby shirts she gave me from 1980.
I love Richard Sherman. He is enthusiastic, articulate and knows the game.
I also like Pete Carroll. He does a great deal to support local charities, like doing meet & greets when local musicians borrow the football stadium for flag football tournaments.
He is a doll on the field compared to Jack Patera. ( who apparently is a doll off the field)
My favorite player is Marshawn.
I think why people don’t like the Hawks is because Seattle is perceived as having too many other amenities. Good jobs, forward thinking voters, ( in some cases), and a gorgeous place to live and play. Why should they have the best football team and fans too?
It is funny how they went from that crappy field overlooking the water in Kirkland that was actually a superfund site or something (with great views) to their plush waterfront VMAC digs (which are also next best thing to a superfund site so went undeveloped for years). Both sites were vacant because they were industrial sites. They did get fast tracked on their EIS process for the new site but it’s certainly not worse that what was there.
It cracked me up when he was talking in an interview about his budding friendship with Marshawn this season. He said that his inner voice told him to reach out to Marshawn and his inner voice is never wrong. When Marshawn scores Thomas is one of the first ones in the end zone hugging him even though he had to run out from the sideline to get there.
ETIII blog post from last week:
THE FIRE WITHIN
I feel a fire burning inside me.
It allows me to be
bold, determined and confident.
When my mind is made up
I don’t care what anyone else says
because I see the truth inside me.
Who I am, my heart, they let me
resist the rebel way
and fight the overflow that surfaces.
I know I put my heart in the game.
I protect my inner child
from other people’s failings.
Early on in life,
early on in my career,
I didn’t use my resources
the right way.
I thank God for a renewed mind.
My thirst for truth and growth
is my adventure.
I am a young king
pursuing the righteous way.
My favorite thing to do is
shut up and listen
to my inner voice.
I fight for freedom
for my imagination and creativity.
When you add my rhythm
it’s really a beautiful thing.
When you work at something
it is intimate.
It mirrors life.
Uh, no. Nobody cares what Seattle is like. You honestly think people don’t like the Seahawks because Seattle has $15 minimum wage and nice water views?
People don’t like the Seahawks because:
everyone is sick to death of the 12th man thing. The "our fans are better than your fans" attitude is ridiculous and offensive.
Richard Sherman
I get that when a Richard Sherman plays for your team, you love him. But everyone else sees him as a loud-mouthed, obnoxious, self-centered player. He has zero sportsmanship. And (to me anyway) his persona seems calculated and phony - designed to deliberately cause controversy, get him face time on TV and clicks on the internet. He poisons everyone’s feelings about the entire team. And no I don’t care how much charity work he does. Lots of players and coaches on every team do charity work, too. It doesn’t make him less obnoxious.
It doesn’t help that
they lead the league in PED suspensions since Pete Carroll got there (they don't call the them the SeAdderall Seahawks for nothing)
they have a stadium deliberately designed to provide a competitive advantage
Pete Carroll is a likeable guy, but he’s got crap in his past - allegations of steroid use at USC, head-in-the-sand about what was happening with his players leading to massive sanctions that he personally avoided any consequences for, and he was a mediocre coach in his prior head-coaching stints.
Seattle will probably repeat though, so life is good right now if you are a Hawks fan.The one worrisome thing if you are a Seattle fan is that Seattle has faced pretty mediocre competition in the 2nd half of the season. The only teams with winning records they faced were the Eagles (who finished at 3-4) and Kansas City (who also finished 3-4). And they lost the Chiefs game. I’m not counting the two Arizona games, because that team stank after Carson Palmer went down, and both Seattle-Arizona games were after the injury (they never scored more than 18 points in a game after Palmer was gone).
They were challenged for a while last week by a mediocre Panthers team who ended their season with a 5 game winning streak against five teams with losing records. Until Cam horked up a stupid pick-6 in the red zone (possible 14-point swing right there), the Panthers were in the game.
So they haven’t been seriously challenged in while. They may be vulnerable to a top team like the Packers.
Well Browner was let go and is with the Patriots now so you can transfer some of that animus over that way. While he was sitting out they found someone else who could do his job. Ditto for Walter Thurmond.
