Sleeper for Seattle especially going up to the Holmgren years were many, maybe not so much locally and fans of the Seahawks which were much fewer back then, the National guys rarely took notice of South Alaska and Egypt as they referred to our location. You had to have a Easley, Tez, Largent even took a long time to get his deserved recognition.
Why Monday Night Football was so great, Broadcasters were always calling us upstarts, we played a lot of Legacy teams and were expected to lose most games. Seahawks were not the television draw it was the Cowboys, Raiders, Broncos etc. Yet our record on Monday Night Football is great, second only to the Raiders I think as far as winning percentage back then. We won over many fans beating the legacy teams consistently. Not only that when we played strange things always happened during the game or Broadcast.