If the Detroit Lions lose to the Seahawks Saturday at CenturyLink Field, they will own the NFL record for the most consecutive postseason games lost — nine.
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 enter the playoffs Saturday against Detroit with the NFC’s No. 3 seed. Since 2003, when playoff seeding began, No. 3 seeds have lost 13 times to No. 6 seeds.
Skip Hall, who coached with Don James for 18 years, including 12 at Washington, has a better perspective than anyone on the Peach Bowl coaches, Nick Saban and Chris Petersen.
Ninety years ago, Washington played Alabama for the first time, in the 1926 Rose Bowl. But the Huskies at first refused to go, because star George Wilson wanted to be paid to play the game.
Washington has some big, dramatic wins over the years. But there are five games that were major pivot points in the course of program history. Saturday vs. Alabama could be No. 6.
The Seahawks took some solace Saturday in their second-half rally (28 points) against Arizona, but Seattle’s usually stout defense unraveled a rate rarely seen in club history.
The Seahawks have had two historic streaks come to an end in recent games, including Sunday at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, where they finally lost by more than 10 points.
The Packers have struggled to reach 6-6, but will have history and snow on their side Sunday when they host the Seahawks at Green Bay’s historic Lambeau Field.
In the 40-7 rout of Carolina Sunday night, the Seahawks produced a rare offensive game, highlighted by the individual efforts of WR Tyler Lockett and RB Thomas Rawls.
Lou Piniella missed on a chance to make the HOF when a 16-member panel elected only two individuals, ex-commissioner Bud Selig and Atlanta executive John Schuerholz.