The Seahawks will add an almost-new weapon for the Super Bowl: Percy Harvin. “He’ll be ready — he’s fine,” said coach Pete Carroll Monday morning on his weekly ESPN 710 radio show. Harvin missed Sunday’s game against the 49ers after a concussion a week earlier against New Orleans. He didn’t pass the NFL’s concussion protocol
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.
After a major blunder to start the game, QB Russell Wilson remained undaunted, coming up with a 4th-and-7 TD pass that will live forever in Northwest sports history.
A week after he became a minor sports celebrity, Michael Bowie found himself out of Sunday’s NFC Championship game. The seventh-round draftee was a starter against New Orleans last week — the first start of his life at left guard — but Sunday was on Seattle’s pre-game list of inactives.
In the absence of injured Percy Harvin, the Seahawks receivers get a little cranky when they hear they “aren’t worth squat.” How, they ask, did Seahawks get this far?
Sports fans in Seattle have never been in this place where the Seahawks have taken them. The anxiety is thicker than Puget Sound fog.
If you experienced in grade school the wise guy who sat behind you in class and flicked your earlobe, then quickly returned to work before Teach caught on, then you know a little bit about Marshawn Lynch.
Harvin won’t play, but if the Seahawks reach the Super Bowl, he likely will be available. Saints S Rafael Bush was fined $21,000 for his hit on Harvin.
Seahawks fans lamenting Russell Wilson’s decline in productivity should know it’s not going to take a makeover to find success in the NFC championship Sunday against the 49ers.
Fervor for 49ers-Seahawks game is such that some Californians thought about coming to Seattle in January for an outdoor event. Didn’t they read about Lewis & Clark?
Just when the NFL was upon a great celebration of its present (Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning) and its future (Russell Wilson vs. Colin Kaepernick), the past reared its concussed head. A deal struck just before the start of the season designed to quiet the growing controversy over the NFL’s responsibility for the consequences of