Richard Sherman still remembers the first time he met Pete Carroll. He remembers Carroll pulling him out of class when he was still attending Compton's Dominguez High School. He remembers being wide-eyed, a little starstruck even, that USC's head coach would take the time to visit.

He remembers Carroll telling him that he would make the perfect "lock-up" corner for the Trojans.

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When an NFL team starts 4-0, finishes 13-3,  then wins two playoff games, it’s a little hard to make a case for seasonal turning points. The Seahawks started well, stayed good and now are on the verge of greatness.

The highway to New Jersey had curves, but no turns or exits.

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This weekend has the potential to become the sweetest in Seattle’s pro sports history. Of course, the Seahawks need to defeat the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII Sunday to make it so, but that’s all that’s standing in the way of a remarkable trifecta that’s already two-thirds a done deal. Question is, which is the source of the greatest elation?

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NEW YORK CITY -- Competitively, the Seahawks were nearly dead. Coach Mike Holmgren's final year of 2008 was a 4-12 dud. General manager Tim Ruskell was fired after a 4-7 start to the 2009 season, which ended 5-11 after losses in the final four games by a combined score of 123-37. Hometown favorite Jim Mora was fired after a single season as head coach.

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Colin Kaepernick's season is finished, but that didn't keep him from showing up in New York Thursday and issuing a little smack-talk directed at Seahawks CB Richard Sherman.

In an exclusive interview with the New York Post, Kaepernick criticized Sherman's post-game rant following Seattle's 23-17 win against the 49ers in the NFC Championship.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The team-interview sessions are done, Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch is relieved of hard duty, and the Super Bowl world will have to seek drama elsewhere.

Lynch, along with his hoss-whisperer friend and teammate, Michael Robinson, had an uneventful final session Thursday with the media after Lynch agreed to a 15-minute limit than ended in less than eight. He was characteristically subdued, but answered every question. When he was told time was up, he hopped out of the chair and was on his way.

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The Seahawks and Denver Broncos, entrants in Super Bowl XLVIII Sunday at MetLife Stadium, faced each other 53 times since their first official squabble Oct. 2, 1977, including 52 times in regular-season play and once in the playoffs (Dec. 24, 1983). The first 50 were when Seattle was a member of the AFC West (1977-01).

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The Seahawks and Denver Broncos have faced each other 52 times during the regular season and once in the postseason in a series that dates to 1977, when Seattle joined the AFC West after spending its inaugural year (1976) as a member of the NFC West. The series takes its biggest step Sunday when the long-time rivals meet in Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. The following is a summary of the rivalry to date.

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Hall of Famer John Elway owns eight of the top passing performances by a Denver quarterback in the history of the Broncos' rivalry with the Seahawks. Curt Warner has four of the top rushing performances by a Seattle player against Denver. The following are the best individual efforts in the history of the series, as well as the longest plays:

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The 12th Man has started to party, gray skies and muddy grass be damned.

A few thousand members of the NFL's loudest fan base endured sideways rain and wind at the Seattle Center Wednesday for the team's Super Bowl XLVIII rally. After, those who chose to wait in a line that stretched from the Space Needle to KeyArena signed a 12th Man flag headed for Seahawks headquarters in New York.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Marshawn Lynch has thrilled the NFL with his breakaway runs. But the NFL won't be thrilled with the figurative tackles he broke Wednesday. At another mandatory session with the media, this one at a poorly planned site in a cramped hallway of the team hotel, Lynch bolted after seven minutes, walking across empty chairs to find a way past the knot of journalists.

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If the 12th Man has friends and family new to this whole Seahawks/football thing who need a quick understanding for Sunday's epic clash, ask them for three minutes and show them this video. They will thank you and enjoy the game so much more.

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Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Russell Wilson’s two-year tenure as quarterback of the Seahawks is the unflappable manner in which he has gone about his business. While Wilson has said often that he refuses to let his emotions get the better of him, regardless of circumstance, he seemed to get the jitters in the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship game.

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NEWARK, N.J. -- The awkward comedy of the Super Bowl's annual clown-car event -- how many media types can you cram into America's consciousness? -- was in full Beast Mode Tuesday afternoon when Marshawn Lynch showed up and made it into Least Mode.

The Seahawks running back, elusive professionally and personally, ambled into and out of the American sports spotlight in about six minutes. Unharmed. 

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The perception that Pete Carroll is the quintessential "player's coach" is apparently true.

Tuesday ESPN released the results of a survey that anonymously asked 320 NFL players to choose the head coach they would prefer to play for, if given a choice. Carroll won in a romp with 22.5 percent (72) of the votes.

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John Elway won two Super Bowls, earned one NFL MVP and made nine Pro Bowls as a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Broncos (1983-98). After retiring, he lost millions of dollars in MVP.com, an online sporting goods store he tried to start with fellow icons Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky.

He was CEO and owner of Denver's Arena Football League team, the Colorado Crush, until the league folded in 2009. In that span, he tried to found another internet startup, which he was later forced to sell. 

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