I am very interested in hearing NYCoug's blog report this next week. Getting to know Dave personally, I can say he's a great guy with a good heart and his love for our Seahawks is as strong as any one of ours. Maybe this is the elder protective part of me coming out but I sure hope he - and our fellow travelling 12's - have a safe and happy trip to San Francisco tomorrow.
In all my 38 years of being a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan, I've never truly known what it felt like to be part of a REAL rivalry in the NFL. Sure we had our Broncos, Raiders and Chiefs we liked to hate in the 80's/90's but that hate was rarely reciprocated due to us being a mere after thought in the league. Nothing stings worse than apathy.
Now, we are 50% part of what the NFL considers the newest, most fierce rivalry in the league with the 49ers. Of course, the media loves to trump up the story lines and feed into the hate whether it's real or perceived, but lately, it just seems to me that this rivalry has taken a dark undertone. Maybe I just need to be more thick-skinned, but the way some 49ers fans and even PLAYERS talk, it's pretty disgusting to me. Talk of hoping for serious injury and worse...For cryin' out loud people, it's a GAME not true Life-Or-Death.
It's gotten to the point I am honestly concerned for our player's AND traveling 12's safety tomorrow. Perhaps it's all for naught and as usual it's just talk before a big game but come on...
For all the talk about Seahawks fans being brutal to opponent fans at Century Link (and I have no doubt there are the minority that makes us ALL look bad), I've heard stories coming out of Candlestick and Oakland that make Century Link sound like a giant bible study class by comparison.
At the end of the day I just want all players - including the 49ers - to be safe and injury free come Sunday afternoon. Yes tempers run high and sh*t happens but I hope cooler heads prevail on both the player and fan side of things. Have fun, play your hearts out, talk your smack in the stands, but go home in one piece.
Is that too much to ask?
In all my 38 years of being a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan, I've never truly known what it felt like to be part of a REAL rivalry in the NFL. Sure we had our Broncos, Raiders and Chiefs we liked to hate in the 80's/90's but that hate was rarely reciprocated due to us being a mere after thought in the league. Nothing stings worse than apathy.
Now, we are 50% part of what the NFL considers the newest, most fierce rivalry in the league with the 49ers. Of course, the media loves to trump up the story lines and feed into the hate whether it's real or perceived, but lately, it just seems to me that this rivalry has taken a dark undertone. Maybe I just need to be more thick-skinned, but the way some 49ers fans and even PLAYERS talk, it's pretty disgusting to me. Talk of hoping for serious injury and worse...For cryin' out loud people, it's a GAME not true Life-Or-Death.
It's gotten to the point I am honestly concerned for our player's AND traveling 12's safety tomorrow. Perhaps it's all for naught and as usual it's just talk before a big game but come on...
For all the talk about Seahawks fans being brutal to opponent fans at Century Link (and I have no doubt there are the minority that makes us ALL look bad), I've heard stories coming out of Candlestick and Oakland that make Century Link sound like a giant bible study class by comparison.
At the end of the day I just want all players - including the 49ers - to be safe and injury free come Sunday afternoon. Yes tempers run high and sh*t happens but I hope cooler heads prevail on both the player and fan side of things. Have fun, play your hearts out, talk your smack in the stands, but go home in one piece.
Is that too much to ask?
