The Seahawks (13-4) are a touchdown favorite over the Green Bay Packers, but nine teams have surmounted long odds on the road to advance to the Super Bowl.
Author: Steve Rudman
Steve Rudman
Steve began his journalistic career in an era in which social networking mainly occurred in saloons. In the years since, he has been a reporter and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), a magazine founder and editor (The National Sports Review), the Director of Research at ESPN (once had the chore of looking up the history of rain delays in major league baseball), a radio talk show host (fired by KIRO because stupid people need radio stations, too, according to the program director), and the producer of a syndicated sports statistical feature (titled Wow!Stats), distributed by Universal Press Syndicate (quick, name three countries in which athletes are eaten when they fail to perform). He wrote (with Karen Chave) 100 Years of Husky Football, Who The Hell is Bob? (one of Seattles more remarkable people) and collaborated with Art Thiel (Sports Press Northwest) and Mike Gastineau (KJR-AM) on The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a ribald compendium of Seattle sports exotica that should be made into a movie (Brad Pitt playing Steve). He gained everlasting infamy in 1985 (at least in Corvallis, Ore.), when, in a column in the Post-Intelligencer, he called the Oregon State Beavers The Barney Fife of College Football, then sat stupefied as the 37-point underdog Beavers cast aside a 28-year slump and beat the Huskies. As of this writing, that game (which resulted in an official, Oregon State-issued game ball for Steve) still generates 314,000 Google pages, most of them from unenlightened (and presumably salt pillar-licking) OSU fans. Steve has yet to issue an apology on Facebook or Twitter and has no plans to do so.
Russell Wilson went 8-for-8, 199 yards and three touchdowns on on third-down plays against Carolina, showing what he could do when his offensive line protects him.
The Seahawks beat Green Bay 36-16 in the regular season opener. Among the differences then: WR Percy Harvin led Seattle in receiving, and Packers QB Rodgers was healthy.
The Seahawks Saturday night became the first team since the 2005 New England Patriots to win a playoff game the season after winning the Super Bowl.
Cam Newton, who makes his first appearance in Seattle Saturday, gives Carolina the same passing/rushing threat that Russell Wilson provides the Seahawks.
Former Mariner Randy Johnson received 97.3 percent of the vote and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday on his first appearance on the ballot.
Former Mariner Randy Johnson is expected to receive more than 90 percent of the vote and enter the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday on the first ballot.
The Seahawks allowed three touchdowns and 39 points in their final six regular-season games, one of the great late-season finishes in modern NFL history.
The Seahawks (12-4) captured the NFC West title Sunday and will have a bye next week before beginning their second consecutive pursuit of a Super Bowl bid.
After three seasons of inertia, the Washington men’s basketball team, off to an 11-0 start, has emerged as one of the top stories of 2014.