Favorite Team

[Hawk4life]

What year was your favorite Seahawks team and why? Try not to be too coach or player specific.

For many of us old timers it is hard not to get nostalgic maybe going with 1984, but for myself 2005 will always be my favorite team. Talk about massive heart and awesome role models for our kids. That season there was a sense of destiny, we were unstoppable.

QB Matt Hasselbeck
RB Shaun Alexander
OT Walter Jones
OG Steve Hutchinson
FB Mack Strong
C Robbie Tobeck
LB Lofa Tatupu
OT Walter Jones
Marcus Trufant
Bobby Engram
Joe Jurevicius
Jerramy Stevens
Chris Gray
Sean Locklear
Bryce Fisher
Chartric Darby
Marcus Tubbs
Grant Wistrom
Jamie Sharper
D.D. Lewis
Kelly Herndon
Michael Boulware
Marquand Manuel

After losing our season opener on the road against the Jags, from there we went 14-1 the only other loss came on the road in week 4 to the Redskins in OT. We sat our starters against the Packers in our final regular season game. We were beating the competition is convincing fashion, I recall realizing how good the team was after we shut out the Eagles 42-0 in week 13 and destroyed the 49ers the following week 41-3.

We finished the season 13-3, but it really felt like we had won them all.

Then in the divisional round we faced the only team that beat us while on our run, we defeated the Redskins 20-10.

We dominated the Panthers in the NFC Championship.

I had planned to pass on my 12th man torch to my son but super bowl XL destroyed that dream. I celebrated Pete's arrival but realized that good guys didn't win in the NFL and he built a team without role model players and won the super bowl. Needless to say my son didn't become a football fan but I sure wish we could have shared the days when it didn't matter if we won because we had players that weren't just amazing athletes but genuinely good people too.

 

[sutz]

I have to agree with 2005, but for a different reason. I had lived in SoCal for 30 years, and when I came home I was relatively flush with cash and sprang for season tickets for what was until that time the greatest season in team history. Had pretty great seats on the 300 level toward the South End Zone, basically looking directly down the South goal line. There really aren't many bad seats in that stadium, though. I was able to hang onto those seats for 3 or 4 years before the money ran out.

Good times indeed!

 

[Hawk4life]

I have to agree with 2005, but for a different reason. I had lived in SoCal for 30 years, and when I came home I was relatively flush with cash and sprang for season tickets for what was until that time the greatest season in team history. Had pretty great seats on the 300 level toward the South End Zone, basically looking directly down the South goal line. There really aren't many bad seats in that stadium, though. I was able to hang onto those seats for 3 or 4 years before the money ran out.

Good times indeed!

Sad to say but I have never been to a game at the Clink, all the games I've gone to were in the Kingdome.



Even in pictures it still feels a little claustrophobic.

 

[morgulon1]

I think my favorite team was the year before we won it all. It was fun watching them grow as a team , having an attitude and slapping people around. We just knew they'd get better . They were on their way up.

 

[Sgt. Largent]

1983 Hawks

As a 14 year old kid who knew nothing but Seahawk pain and misery up until 1983 when coach Knox arrived, watching my team beat the crap out of the hated Broncos in the WC round, and then pull off the miracle win in Miami was as good as it gets for a kid.

So I will always have a permanent place in my heart for that team, and those players.

Reggie McKenzie's smile carrying off Knox is as ingrained into my memory as Ken Griffey Jr's at the bottom of the pile after Edgar's double.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9a/7d/2d/9a7d2d6dc13179040ff41c0f1972fad0.jpg

 

[AROS]

2005 is a great one, 1983 as Sgt. mentioned...And 2013 for obvious reasons.

 

[LeveeBreak]

1983 Hawks

As a 14 year old kid who knew nothing but Seahawk pain and misery up until 1983 when coach Knox arrived, watching my team beat the crap out of the hated Broncos in the WC round, and then pull off the miracle win in Miami was as good as it gets for a kid.

So I will always have a permanent place in my heart for that team, and those players.

Reggie McKenzie's smile carrying off Knox is as ingrained into my memory as Ken Griffey Jr's at the bottom of the pile after Edgar's double.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9a/7d/2d/9a7d2d6dc13179040ff41c0f1972fad0.jpg

This^^^. However, I was sure were were going all the way and the Raiders tore my heart out.

 

[Sgt. Largent]

This^^^. However, I was sure were were going all the way and the Raiders tore my heart out.

Yes. Unfortunately we learned the hard way that using the phrase "team of destiny" is crap. What sucks is we beat the Raiders twice that year.

 

[Lagartixa]

I've written a bunch of times here on .NET about the magical 1983 season.

2012 and 2013 are up there too.

And '84, '86, and 2019 are also special to me, because I got to go to Seahawks games in those seasons. My dad took me down to Foxborough to see the 'Hawks in '84 and '86, and I finally made it to a Seahawks home game in 2019 after 43 years as a Seahawks fan, most of that time as the only Seahawks fan I knew. It got awfully dusty in the train on the way to the stadium as I found myself completely surrounded by people in Seahawks gear for the first time in my life and I thought about how I wished I could show my dad, who always supported me being a Seahawks fan. The dusty air continued to be a problem at the stadium, especially when I noticed my seat was in front of the sign representing Jacob Green's place in the Seahawks Ring of Honor. They oughta do something about all that dust.

 

[KinesProf]

2013. I know it is the low hanging fruit, but I can't lie to myself either.

It had everyone, including Bennett and Avril as backups to Bryant and Clemons. So many characters. DQ at defensive coordinator. Rookie Luke Willson, rookie Christine Michael. The ever present anticipation of maybe getting to see Percy play.

I think a lot of this depends on where you were and how old you were at the time. As my earliest Seahawks memory is the Engram drop in the endzone in the playoffs against the Rams, so even 2005 was a little early in my memory for me.

 

[AgentDib]

You could almost pick one of a really large number of teams. Even the ill-fated 1992 team had an all star defense, a rookie LT who looked like he was going to be good, and Chris Warren running behind John L. Williams. I believe our OC that year went on to be Pete's OC at New England? It probably helped that I listened to most of that season on the radio with Pete Gross calling them up until his death.

But yeah, it really does have to be the 2013 team though for me with no question. That Super Bowl was a 100/100 experience for long-time Seahawks fans.

 

[LeveeBreak]

I was at the Hawks/Panthers NFCC game and had started shaking at the end of the 3rd. I looked at my bro and told him "We are going to the F'n Superbowl"! That was a special time. Obviously "The Tip" NFCC game was a good time to be a fan as well. All of those teams had a lot of players to root for...even that guy in Denver prior to him becoming voldemort.

 

[Hawk4life]

You know it occurred to me after writing this that I recorded all the games that season. I remember paying quite a bit of money for a DVD recorder because my old "Dish" receiver had limited storage space.

I'm going to dig them up and relive that season. I recall thinking I'd never want to because of what happened in the super bowl but that old wound doesn't sting quite as much as it used to.

In the meantime:

 

[JustTheTip]

I have to agree with 2005, but for a different reason. I had lived in SoCal for 30 years, and when I came home I was relatively flush with cash and sprang for season tickets for what was until that time the greatest season in team history. Had pretty great seats on the 300 level toward the South End Zone, basically looking directly down the South goal line. There really aren't many bad seats in that stadium, though. I was able to hang onto those seats for 3 or 4 years before the money ran out.

Good times indeed!

Too bad, a few more years and you could have financed the seats just by selling 1/3-1/2 of the games every year.

I had season tickets mid to late 90's. I gave them up the year they moved to Husky Stadium. They jacked my ticket prices and put me in pretty much the worst spot in the stadium so I decided not to renew. Excitement was growing with the new stadium coming and Holmgren at coach, so I saw more of the same coming.

 

[FattyKnuckle]

The '05 team was great, as were the 83 and a few others, but the 13s were prime for me. Lynch and Chancellor alone made the team upper tier. Bryant at DE, all the other DE Monsters, Wabi and Wright. Sherm and Earl. Baldwin and Kearse and as yet unpretentious Russ with the greatest deep ball seen for decades. Was even more exiting because the second best team in the league was a division rival, with college rival coaches, and we got to play them 3 times that season. New uniforms, new attitude. So many things came together to make that team special.

 

[Hawk4life]

I'd forgotten about 12/24/2005 Peyton Manning's 13-1 Colts come to town. Final 28-13

And even as a rookie Lofa was damn good.

 

[kidhawk]

There have been a lot of teams that were fun to watch for various reasons, and I love this thread, but getting a bit outside of what the question is likely trying to get to, I want to just say 1976. I was just a kid, and when they played their inaugural season, I finally felt that there was an NFL team I could call my own and it felt pretty good.

 

[Hawkstorian]

I always have a big soft spot for the 1992 Seahawks..... I know hear me out!..... The offense was, to say the least ... offensive. But that defense was legit and every game they lost the D held up until they just wore out. Cortez may have had the best year for a Seahawks defender in team history. He tore up opposing offenses much like we've seen lately with Aaron Donald.

But sadly, it was all for nothing as we were shooting total blanks on offense. Our quarterbacks were Kelly Stouffer, Dan McGwire and Stan Gelbaugh. The sad reality is Gelbaugh was the best of the 3.

I had a lot of respect for Tom Flores as a coach. Those guys played hard for him and he got all anyone could out of that group. Unfortunately he had a terribly GM (coincidentally also named Tom Flores).

And yeah, that team that one the Super Bowl is my favorite of all time.

 

[IndyHawk]

Sad to say but I have never been to a game at the Clink, all the games I've gone to were in the Kingdome.

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Even in pictures it still feels a little claustrophobic.

Same here but the Kingdome wasn't experienced by many of today's fans
so while I'm missing out for now,they missed out on a lot of beastquake
level shaking in that house..We got penalized for too much noise-imagine
that.

 

[morgulon1]

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