The Seahawks face roster issues, but head coach Pete Carroll said Monday that he doesn’t expect the kind of falloff that many champions experience.
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.
The Seahawks raced to a 22-0 halftime lead, opened the second half with a Percy Harvin kickoff return for a TD and went on to rout the Broncos, 43-8.
Former Seahawks left tackle Walter Jones (1997-08), considered a lock for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, made it as expected in his first year of eligibility Saturday.
It’s rare when there’s such a harmonic convergence of good, big stories, but this weekend provides three. Which one tops you list? Vote here.
The Seahawks have not faced Denver since 2010, but the clubs played each other 50 times when both were in the AFC West (1977-01). Denver leads the all-time series 34-18.
Russell Wilson of the Seahawks was somewhat rattled in the fourth quarter of the NFC title game against San Francisco and now takes his game to football’s biggest stage.
Super Bowl XLVIII will feature the top-scoring offense (Denver) vs. the No. 1 defense (Seattle). In six previous such SB matchups, the top defense won five times.
Walter Jones has frequently been called the “greatest player in Seahawks history,” but is he? Below are a list of 10 candidates for that accolade. Vote here.
Sunday’s NFC Championship game was rife with memorable moments and plays. Which play, or moment, stood out most for you? Vote here.
The Seahawks trailed 10-0 early, but rallied for a 23-17 win over the San Francisco 49ers Sunday in the NFC Championship game. Seattle will pay Denver in the Super Bowl.