Seattle restaurateur John Howie dominated The Taste of the NFL charity fundraiser for Seattle Food Lifeline as the Seahawks dominated the Broncos.
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.
The Seahawks owner is three times wealthier than the next richest NFL owner. The salary cap precludes buying a championship, but it’s possible to put lots in place for a 2nd title.
The Seahawks were hailed massively Wednesday for a deed that had more meaning that the winning of a sports trophy.
As estimated 300,000 will show up downtown for the victory parade celebrating the Seahawks’ NFL championship. Virtually every downtown hotel room is sold out.
Lashing the Broncos with ruthless hits and the amazing Percy Harvin, the Seahawks brought home the first major sports championship in 35 years.
From the Arctic to the Antarctic, the 12th Man’s reach is planetary. Other fan groups must know resistance is futile; they will be assimilated.
It’s a day like no other for players is the Super Bowl. So much is so different, including the late start time. Take it from former Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren, owner of 3 rings.
Healthy and happy, WR Percy Harvin provides literally an over-the-top asset they Seahawks didn’t have in a 15-3 season. The Seahawks can’t stop smiling.
Seattle likely doesn’t have the infrastructure, the convention center or the climate to put in a viable bid for the Super Bowl.
Longtime Seattle Post-Intelligencer cartoonist Dave Horsey weighs in on the irony of the Seahawks’ intense following in a state where many are known as ‘Dude.’