Good as the Seahawks were, the season didn’t have turning points as much as milestones. Five games that kept the Seahawks on track to the Super Bowl.
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.
If you think Carroll, Schneider and the Seahawks roster create an unlikely vision for success, please pause to consider this lengthy look at how it grew from the mess of 2009.
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
For the second day in a row, Marshawn Lynch was the story of the Super Bowl run-up because he did a a chair-walk to escape the media. Common sense suggests a solution.
Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch is to circumspection what comedian Lewis Black is to rage, yet there was a smattering of truth in what the former said at Super Bowl Media Day.
FB Michael Robinson nearly died at work with the Seahawks in August. After recovering, he was dying to get back to work, a testament to how much fun Seahawks are having.
Despite being the fourth youngest team in the NFL and the second youngest to play in a Super Bowl, the Seahawks sounded like veterans in their first media session of Super Bowl week.
Seattle is South Alaska? I have to take parka and ice ax to cover a ballgame on the frozen swamps of New Jersey. But it’s worth it to see, finally, a real championship week.
WR Percy Harvin was upbeat, which is hardly unusual around the Seahawks these days. But his likely play in the Super Bowl ratchets up the optimism.
Richard Sherman’s rant brought him from the margins to the white-hot center of American pop culture. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll has to reel him back.