Aros":2d11xd2e said:
Sgt. Largent":2d11xd2e said:
As a left handed kid growing up in the 70's running around the playground and sports fields hucking around a football with my buddies in pickup games, Jim Zorn was my idol.
Yep, same. I was a lefty and I ALWAYS was Zorn playing pickup games. I must have yelled out "Zorn to Largent...Touchdown Seahawks!!" A gazillion times in my street growing up.
Haha. I was (and am!) right-handed, but I was a Seahawks fan and I was almost always the QB (on offense) in neighborhood games, so Zorn ended up becoming my first childhood sports hero.
When I got a royal-blue Seahawks jersey, I was also given a kit for putting numbers on the jersey. I always intended for it to be #10, and I was pretty sure I was gonna put "ZORN" on it too. I just never got around to it, so I played a jillion games in a Seahawks jersey with no numbers or name on it.
I'm from a small town in Maine, so my fame as the town Seahawks fan spread quickly. By 1977, it seemed all the kids in town knew.
When I finally got to a Seahawks home game in October of 2019, I wore a Zorn throwback jersey to represent my early years as a Seahawks fan and a current-logo-and-colors cap to represent the current run.
I loved Largent too, of course. I liked some of the running backs, but I wouldn't say they were my "favorites." Brown is the same. It was hard to follow the Seahawks in Maine in the 1970s, so I naturally got more statistical info on Zorn, Largent, Sherman Smith, and David Sims than I did about anybody on the defense, and the highlights shows, to the extent they showed the Seahawks, tended to show what the offense had done. I'll talk about defensive players more in the '80s-player thread.