Results tagged “seahawks”

It's a book that will sit on our bookshelf probably until we die, ready to supply a quick trip down memory lane whenever we desire it.

Please forgive Seattlest for the horrible attempt at a punny play on words headline, but we spent most of Thursday watching a spaceship balloon drift across Denver. So now our brain is dead.

If you missed any of this weekend’s football action, certainly the resulting sonic booms from Montlake and SoDo caused a noticeable vibration in the rock you’re living under.

Seattlest had barely dried our tears from last weekend’s Huskies and Seahawks losses when we learned Wednesday that The Sporting News ranked Seattle an abysmal 52nd place on its 2009 list of Best Sports Cities.

To be a Seattle sports fan this weekend was to rediscover that we indeed had a functioning heart.

This weekend the Seattle sports world parachutes into a Midwestern hot pocket as footballers Sounders FC, Huskies, and Seahawks play within about 300 miles of each other in Indiana and Ohio. Their respective opponents are tough. We're hoping at least two, if not all three squads win, because we think imbibing is much more fun in victory than in defeat.

Welcome to Seattle, Edgerrin James! The likely Hall-of-Famer is a Seahawk, signed to provide depth at a position that has been unsettled since Shaun Alexander's 2006 collapse.

We mentioned a few days ago that WSDOT is doing construction on southbound I-5 this weekend, and that a lane will be closed from Yale to Union Street from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. But we want to warn you that northbound traffic won't be all giggles and schadenfreude--they're keeping the express lanes open southbound all day to help with the lane closure, so northbound is gonna be molasses in January, too. Plus, Seahawks fans, getting near Qwest Field is just part of the fun: "WSDOT is building a bridge over the railroad tracks on S. Royal Brougham Way and a new off-ramp from I-90 and I-5 to S. Atlantic Street/Edgar Martinez Drive S. Construction is also under way on nearby city of Seattle projects and on WSDOT’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Electrical Line Relocation project. Fans should expect construction-related lane, parking and pedestrian access restrictions related to these projects south of Qwest Field."

WSDOT tells us that from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. this Saturday, they're closing the onramp from Yale Avenue to southbound I-5 and one lane of southbound I-5 between Yale and Union Street.

Are you ready for some football? As the summer fades into fall, and the Mariners slide slowly out of contention, it’s time to starting thinking pigskin. For those who just can’t hold out for pre-season games, there is a free, open practice tomorrow at Husky Stadium. The gates open at 5:30 and the practice starts at 6:30 p.m.

Matt Hasselbeck was stuck on a delayed flight from Newark to Seattle this morning. So how did Hass pass the time? By Tweeting!:

The Seahawks' most talented (if not most productive) linebacker is back with the team after finding the free agent waters as frigid as Puget Sound. Hill didn't help his value when, in January, cops caught him asleep in a marijuana-smoke-filled Buick Electra. The Seahawks evidently looked past the incident. Hill, who'll turn 27 in September, signs a six-year deal that could be worth as much as $38 million; the Seahawks solidify their linebacking corps for the foreseeable future.

"Curry is the smart pick here. He plays every down for the Hawks right away. He is a character guy who will carry on the values of the Seahawks and fit into the locker room. He is the safest pick in the draft, but that doesn't mean he isn't good. He will make an instant impact on a defense that struggled last year." -- Michael Steffes, Seahawks Addicts

Your Seattle Seahawks selected Aaron Curry, a 6-1, 254 lb. linebacker from Wake Forest, with the fourth overall pick in today's NFL Draft. Curry, who grew up poor and fatherless in North Carolina, got only two scholarship offers out of high school, but blossomed into an All-American in college. Curry will replace Julian Peterson as the Hawks' starting strong-side linebacker.

With the NFL Draft taking place tomorrow Seattlest Seth and David sat down with the Seahawk broadcast team of Jason McDonald and Dusty Warren to discuss what the team should do with the fourth pick.

The Seattle Seahawks have the fourth overall pick in Saturday's 2009 NFL draft, and we can only hope they do better than the Chicago Bears did with the first overall pick in NFL draft history: The Bears' selection, running back Jay Berwanger, eschewed pro football for a job as a foam-rubber salesman. (Don't knock it: These were the halcyon days of foam-rubber sales. Think Mad Men, but with even more dames and broads.)

• Poor kid, teacher sends him packing with his own Mr. Hankey. This is so going to come back and haunt him in middle school. Oh, the nickname poo-tential.
• Earth Day, is it over yet?
• Scatt the church therapy cat gets the last meow, as his attacker is now facing first-degree animal cruelty and deadly weapon felony charges.

Man oh man, did we have fun at the first Sounders game last Thursday. Sometimes events--not just sporting events--have an electricity about them. This was one of those.

While local TV news teams are already struggling with embarrassing quips about the Seahawks signing of TJ Houshmandzadeh, the former Oregon State Beaver is a physical departure from a core of receivers whose collective toughness has been more reflective in recent years of a rickety china set than a professional football team.

Spitfire is impressive to people who are mesmerized by flat screens, not unlike birds by shiny objects. Initially we felt disdain for the vulgar abundance of screens but eventually got sucked in ourselves. There’s just too much to ignore. The problem with Spitfire is it’s a blank slate. You would never know it was here, the only thing in the place that says "Seattle" is the liquor license. No "Hawk fan12" sports radio placards, no Sue Bird bobble head, nada. Disloyal like nearby Sport, but even worse because there was no discernible sports memorabilia anything--not even Boston crap--just a few sports-oriented paintings that look like they belong in Jay Buhner’s billiards room.

With the return of the dreaded S-word juxtaposed with some of the most beautiful sunshine we've seen in months, the Northwest is feeling a bit punchy. In that spirit, Josh Feit at Publicola takes on Seattle's odd political climate ("green urbanists" vs. "economic populists"). It's a wonder we get any political dialogue accomplished at all, given how sore people are--still!--over the infamous Seahawks in the Superbowl referee fiasco. Pouring salt on the open wound, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers wrote a letter explaining precisely how fair that referee was. After reading the letter on the Daily Weekly, you might feel a little punchy yourself and need to scream about it. Just let it out, you'll feel better. If yelling doesn't help, have you considered turning to alcohol? Some tequila from Sammamish, perhaps? The Issaquah Reporter has the story (via GreenerGrad).

Seahawks GM Tim Ruskell didn’t speak to the media all season. We can’t blame him; if we failed three times more than we won we’d keep a low profile as well.

...at least as far as sports-affiliated reusable shopping bags are concerned. Pro sports franchise shopping bags where everywhere on our trip to Chicago for the holidays, but we've never seen a Mariners or Seahawks shopping bag in this style in Seattle. Of course, that's the Chicago Way: when you're trying to direct the population you don't legislate, you just slap a Bears logo on the desired behavior.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.

On the first Wednesday of every month at high noon, our home is rattled by a screaming bullhorn miles away telling us that if Mount Rainier should ever blow, these same disembodied voices will totally have us covered. It is part of the County's elaborate "Lahar Warning System." In addition to a network of louder-than-Metallica audiotronics, the County also has page after page online addressing the symptoms, effects and remedies to all things lahar. For a lahar. A once-in-10,000-year event.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.

The problem with this particular project is that the Seahawks play St. Louis twice a year. After meals of toasted ravioli and gooey butter cake we are left with slingers, St. Paul sandwiches, and the city’s official dish, Crisco covered in fried caramel and broken glass.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.