Some might suggest that Sunday’s 45-17 squish of Jacksonville, perhaps the NFL’s worst team, was not much of a metric for an elite team. But Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was not among the hair-splitters: 3-0 is 3-0, and only five other NFL teams can claim it (six, if Denver beats Oakland Monday night).
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.
In the face of speculation that the death of Hiroshi Yamauchi may cause Nintendo of America to sell the Mariners, club CEO Howard Lincoln said Sunday there are no plans to sell the baseball club.
Seahawks offense finds its forward gears against hapless Jaguars (0-3) as Russell Wilson throws four TD passes in 45-17 rout Sunday at the Clink.
One of Japan’s richest men, Yamauchi bought the Mariners in 1992 and ushered in decade of success and a new ballpark. But the last decade been largely a failure.
Seahawks, Sounders, Huskies are on upticks with late-summer success and huge crowds. Nothing has been won, but title of most miserable sports city may be vacated by Seattle.
Seahawks LT Russell Okung, the Pro Bowler in charge of protecting Russell Wilson’s back, will miss Sunday’s game against Jacksonville, and possibly more.
Even when they weren’t playing well, the party was on for the Seahawks as they danced on the heads of the 49ers 29-3. Nature’s thunder was only the background music.
Big numbers for Washington’s Sankey and Price, but turnovers and penalties keep Illinois in game into fourth quarter before Huskies get rare non-conference road win.
Sehawks QB Russell Wilson keeps doing the preposterous in big moments so often that it is time to expect them. That’s why I expect the Seahawks to beat the 49ers Sunday.
Some think it’s the game of the year in the NFL. Seahawks and 49ers are tut-tutting it. But only the12th Man knows why Sunday is such a big deal to so many Seattle fans.