The Seahawks’ last-minute fade to defeat Sunday on a long, game-winning TD drive is a rarity. But here’s a look at seven similar games of similar magnum anguish.
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.
Washington is a 17.5 favorite to beat Oregon Saturday, but would need a 57-point win to match the record for largest margin of victory in back-to-back drubbings.
Only six games in NFL history featured two QBs with four-plus TDs and 400-plus yards, as was the case Sunday when the Seahawks beat the Texans.
On Sunday at CenturyLink, the Seahawks defense sees for the first time Deshaun Watson, who has thrown more TDs through six games than any rookie in NFL history.
Washington officials will unveil a statue of former football coach Don James Friday at Husky Stadium, where current coach Chris Petersen is replicating James’s success.
In Seattle’s 24-7 victory over the New York Giants Sunday, Russell Wilson became the second quarterback in franchise history to complete passes to 11 receivers.
Despite five picks and nine sacks against California, WSU quarterback Luke Falk is on the brink of breaking a passel of Pac-12 passing records.
The Washington Huskies could become the fourth team in conference history to lead in scoring offense and defense in consecutive years.
It’s rare when the Seahawks gain fewer than 250 yards and win a road game, and rarer still when they have five takeaways on the road. Both happened Sunday.
The Seahawks scored with two passing TDs, two rushing TDs and two return TDs Sunday against the Colts, a first in franchise history.