Marshawn Lynch’s plan was to come out in gold cleats, as forecasted by TMZ Sports Saturday. Custom shoemaker Solesbysir claimed to have used 24K gold flake paint with a gold chrome plate soles, with a claimed value of $1,100.
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.
Much has been written about the differences between the Packers and Seahawks since Seattle’s 36-16 win over Green Bay in the season opener. How about the difference in mood among the 12s from the previous NFC Championship to the one Sunday? Talk about all in. Seahawks fans have gone from trepadacious to bodacious.
Packers are better than they were in 36-16 loss. But despite numerous injury losses, so are Seahawks. The secret is scouting and developing guys off the football street.
In the five years since his controversial hire from USC, Pete Carroll created lushness from a nuclear-winter sports landscape. Said Carroll: This is as good as it gets.”
Third-string QB B.J. Daniels was named as the replacement for injured WR Paul Richardson, a surprise. Unger, Maxwell and Moeaki seem set to play Sunday.
The Seahawks must invoke “next man up” again for the NFC Championship Sunday against Green Bay at the Clink. Rookie WR Paul Richardson tore the ACL in his left knee in the third quarter of the 31-17 win over Carolina Saturday, according to reports from foxsports.com and NFL.com, and is done for the season.
Goes by Batman, Kam Chancellor does. He helped saved Gotham West, and entertained the football nation with feats previously unseen.
Pete Carroll always hammers home the point about finishing. So the defense shut out opponent offenses in the fourth quarter of the past six games, an NFL record.
Seahawks Earl Thomas and Marshawn Lynch had no relationship until this year. Now, their stares into each other’s eyes radiate intensity.
Six weeks after spraining an ankle, C Max Unger is back in the starting lineup for Saturday’s game. “It actually shows up statistically,” says Carroll. “We’re better with him.”