Telling NBC’s Matt Lauer that he woke up and wept the morning after, Seahawks’ Carroll says the crushing defeat won’t define him or the Seahawks.
Author: Art Thiel
Art Thiel
Never having met a metaphor he could not twist beyond recognition, Art has been illuminating, agitating, amusing and annoying Puget Sound sports readers for a long time. Along with Steve Rudman, he co-founded Sports Press Northwest because it didnt seem right that the Google monster should aggregate daily journalism into oblivion without at least a flesh wound from somebody. Thiel and Rudman labored under the Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe until the print edition died an undeserved death in March, 2009. Art continued on at its online successor seattlepi.com while working on SPNWs creation. His radio commentaries can be heard Friday and Saturday mornings and Friday afternoon on KPLU-FM 88.9. In 2003 he wrote the definitive book about the Seattle Mariners, Out of Left Field, which became a regional bestseller. In 2009, along with Rudman and KJR 950 afternoon host Mike Gastineau, Thiel authored The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a cross between historylink.org and Mad Magazine that has become mandatory reading for any sports fan who has an indoor bathroom. A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University as well as two dead papers and a live one, the News Tribune of Tacoma, he has become a fan of entrepreneurial online journalism because it allows him to continue a lifelong passion to take the English language to places it rarely visits willingly, and does not involve the cleaning of kennels or stables.
Kam Chancellor played the Super Bowl Sunday with a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee, along with a bone bruise, the Seahawks strong safety told the team’s website, seahawks.com, Wedneaday. News that he was injured in practice Friday was released by a pool report, but the extent was not known.
Based on sports history, ESPN’s Keith Olbermann claims the Seahawks’ only hope is to blow up everything. Unlikely. But there is a productive way to start 2015: Own the mistake.
Yes, final play was a brick. Before that, a defense weakened by injuries allowed consecutive 4Q TDs. First loss in 31 games in which Seahawks were up 10+ points in 4Q.
The most popular conversation starter on Earth Monday was what is up with Carroll and Wilson? The rest of their time in Seattle will be seen through the prism of one bad play.
Belichick alerted Malcolm Butler, who blew it in practice, on the final, fateful play that crushed the Seahawks’ bid for a second consecutive Super Bowl win.
Not too surprising to those in the know, but the 12s came large to Phoenix. At the stadium, the concourses, the beer lines, the bathrooms were filled by dozens of Dozens.
NFL.com reported Sunday morning that the Seahawks are having talks with Marshawn Lynch’s agent that could keep him in Seattle for his career.
With two commercials, three real interviews and his words quoted by Katy Perry and Tiger Woods, The Beast has become a media monster. Because he doesn’t like to talk.
In annual state of the NFL presser, NFL cmmish was devoid, as usual, of meaning or sincerity. Maybe he should get help from a more honest speaker — Marshawn Lynch.