I love the Seahawks because I love Seattle and Western Washington.
Growing up in a divorced Military household you can't imagine the places I've been, when I was old enough to really understand football and choose a favorite team. Growing up my dad was a Bills fan, my mom bandwagoned to the Chiefs after the divorce (bf's team), and my bro was a bandwagon 49ers teams. (That was in the late 90's... now they are all Seahawks fans.)
So when it was a time to choose a team...My heart went home... and the Seahawks are that symbol for my love of the PNW... they were like my family and whether I was in Kansas, Virginia, New York, or Connecticut... I always knew as long as I stayed connected to them in some way, no matter the ridicule I got from sporting Seahawks colors in Kansas or just total ignorance of the PNW living on the east coast ... I knew deep in my soul my heart and I would eventually find our way back to home to the place we loved.
And that's why I love the Seahawks...
Edit: Damn, apparently I don't have reading comprehension.
So I'll just make this quick since I got all mushy above:
I found .Net after the ESPN boards starting going to crap but not before TNT with Sando and Fieldgulls were my go-tos.
Those places had amazing content but for the most part you really didn't have an identity just a name.
Around 2008-2009 I found this place, I would go on to be a lurker for 3-4 years before registering. And this place pretty became all I needed.... hundreds of insights, great arguments, optimism, trash talk and loads of fun.
Just like you can get at any message board.
But this place was just. different from those places....it just felt like you could be yourself here as long as you followed the rules... you didn't have kiss Sando's ass to be accepted or like on Fieldgulls, it seems like they are always trying to out genius each other.
I guess this place was just right... perfect atmosphere... and balance of fans... not to mention what should be the gold standard of forum designs.... this place is where the cool kids hang out.
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