Ek, I was scoffed at last week when I said that I expected Seahawk fans to be courteous and respectful to Packer fans in the stadium. I didn’t add “generous and kind” so in that regard, I was wrong. 
Of course there are exceptions, but as a group, Seattleites are just nice people.
Let’s not forget that we are talking about FOOTBALL, ok?
It’s fun, it’s great to have team spirit and community pride, but in reality, very few if any of the players on any given team are actually native to the city, and at the end of the day, it’s a business.
I’m really on the fence about whom to root for here.
Well - the guy who caught the game winning touchdown, Jermaine Kearse, IS native to the city as is the punt returner. Steve Schilling, the backup O lineman who played center for a chunk of the season after Unger went down (before Schilling also suffered a season ending injury) is a local kid as well.
Jermaine Kearse grew up here and played for the University of Washington.
Nrdbs, few if any of the Packer players grew up in Green Bay either, I’d bet. When a city has a team, they adopt the players as their own. It’s universal.
I’m really on the fence about whom to root for here.
Did you vote for Romney or Obama? ( Baracks mom is from here.)
Poor little guy.
http://q13fox.com/2015/01/19/must-watch-devastated-packers-fan6-can-stand-michael-bennetts-postgame-bike-ride/
Yeah I know, that’s exactly why I said “any given team.”
I just think if we’re going to start hurling personal insults at each other, it shouldn’t be over something like football, it should be over something important like round tables vs. rectangular or Selma vs. American Sniper. 
I know I don’t HAVE to root for anyone, but the game is boring to me if I don’t find some way to invest myself in it.
One team has a VERY important player who shares my birthday. TWO players on that team share D1’s birthday, and ANOTHER on that team shares DH’s birthday. But they have someone on that team I find it hard to cheer for. On the other hand, I could make a good case to make the OTHER team the “good guys” in my mind, even though they have someone who really rubs me wrong in their camp as well.
I usually tend to root for the underdog, but I don’t really see one here. I do think the right teams made it to the game.
I don’t even know when any of their birthdays are.
At least the Patriots are driving down ticket prices.
http://kdvr.com/2015/01/19/patriots-fatigue-drops-super-bowl-ticket-prices-20-percent-from-last-year/
^^^It’s weird, I googled a player on one of the teams and saw his BD was the same as mine. I googled another one of their stars and saw his birthday matched D1’s. So I just pulled up the whole roster and it had all their birthdays on it.
Come to think of it, I did NOT do the same for the other team.
It’s silly, I know.
Nrdsb D, if something i said came across as a personal insult, I apologize. It certainly wasn’t intended.
I understand your rooting- interest dilemma. That’s how I feel most years.
ETA – Except that I always root for the NFC team if the Patriots are playing. I am really tired of them.
I have a cause you call can all get behind. Please root for our vehicle’s unexpected trip to the shop to cost no more than the lower triple figures, preferably less (does that last part ever happen for anyone these days?). Low number! Low number! What, not catchy enough? Sniff, sniff. I’m crushed, I liked it.
There used to be a joke about the Red Sox that whenever they arrived in a city to plane, the 25 guys would take 25 cabs to the hotel.
They didn’t win a danged thing until they came together as a team. Bonded, if you will.
It’s not strictly necessary - the A’s back in the 70’s supposedly couldn’t stand each other, and they won three World Series in a row. But I think a team is better when everyone supports each other and there is some level of camaraderie.
So much Patriots hate. Give it a few more years, then Brady and Belichick will retire, and other teams might get a turn.
Ha. We spent over $1000 on our cars today, none of which we were expecting. Mine needed brakes, DW’s needed tires. Something about winter… @-)
Thats always a pain.
Which is why I try to walk more, to save my car.
and now I wish that I didn’t even have a car, because an acquaintance wants me to give her a ride to the exercise class we both go to tomorrow.
only it is a lot out of my way, because the class is close enough to me that I can walk, but she lives in an area that is a pain to get to. She’s also one of those people who needs others to do her a lot of favors and it is exhausting just deflecting the hinting. If it was to be a one time thing would be easier, but Im afraid it will open the door.
But heres hoping your car’s trip to the shop will be brief and relatively painless.
Can’t really kick, mostly an inconvenience. Picked up H in the other car a little while ago.
Hey, it was a rallying cause! There’s something to be said for that, isn’t there? Don’t answer that.
P.S. NRE, sorry to hear about the more $ and inconvenience bill. I should definitely be thankful for the weather here today.
Hope everyone’s families are faring well…
No, no I was not feeling insulted. Some earlier posts seemed to be headed that way, and I was just trying to insert some levity.
The last time I got insulted over sports was when D1’s soccer coach called her to take a PK and another Dad shouted “NO!” because his daughter often also took them. Boy was I steamed.
Fortunately she hit it into the upper 90.
So I didn’t search for it, but what did Russell Wilson actually say regarding God and football?
Why do football players think we want to hear about their religious views?
And sorry I got your name wrong, but I can blame that on the phone.
Update: Four figures, ugh (our car’s jersey is matching yours, NRE). It may be time to say goodbye. To revive the vehicle or not revive it, that is the question.
Few fun notes:
Seahawks tweeted an idiotic picture of Russell Wilson along with a quote from Martin Luther King, the sort of inappropriate self-glorification you’d expect teams would pay enough people not to do. They pulled it.
I heard Tom Brady on the radio when asked about Richard Sherman and the way Sherman yelled at him after the game in 2012 and then tweeted out a taunt of sorts. Brady, with a laugh, said it was really loud and he thought Sherman came up near him to say “good game” or whatever and he didn’t listen and didn’t hear him. Not sure he’s telling the truth but Sherman really needs to learn that being competitive doesn’t mean being a bleephole.