TwistedHusky":2hit9pi8 said:
We don't have that many fair weather fans.
Seattle has always supported its football team (or almost always) even when they sucked.
Sure they had bumperstickers that said stuff like 'Seahawks Fever. Catch It - Our Receivers Can't' but they watched the games and went to them.
Maybe in the Ken Berhring (or however you spell his name, I won't look it up but I remember that awful coach was Flores) days people just start leaving the team but it was more he was a complete jerk than it was the team driving people away. I went to games during 2 win seasons.
I sat in a fairly packed stadium in a driving rainstorm (Husky Stadium while CLink was being built) watching us get destroyed by the Raiders. There were plenty of people enduring a rainstorm and a beatdown still wearing their Hawks gear.
Last year was garbage football. Not wanting to watch that, 9-7 or no, is not calling yourself a bandwagon fan. It is just not wanting to watch garbage football.
Maybe guys around the country that were not from Seattle and had no connection to Seattle abandoned the team, but that was because the reason people loved this team was the amazing defense and the relentless physical way they played the game (along with the 49ers when they were good). I can understand why those people left, they supported the team because they way they played the game was easy to love. But they don't play that way anymore so obviously those supporters left a while ago.
But Seattle, and the NW, supports its football teams.
While I agree, the NW is a great sports area....................I'd say we still have our fair share of bandwagon of fair weather fans that you don't hear or see from until the teams are good.
Our wives decided it'd be fun to have Hawk parties during our SB runs, going crazy with the food and texting back and forth with outfits, who's hosting, cooking, etc.
Haven't really heard from those ladies in quite a few seasons. They magically disappeared.