Kudos to Paul Allen...if this is actually true...

[Seahawk Mike]

Anyone know if this is actually true??? (I'm pretty sure that parts of it are true)

Once upon a time two billionaires each owned football teams, one that went by the sign of the horse and one that went by the sign of the bird. Each team won the right to play for the championship and each billionaire was granted 22,000 tickets to do with as they pleased. The billionaire owner of the team that went by the sign of the horse decided to allocate two thousand tickets to a season ticket holder lottery and sell the other twenty thousand tickets to a California ticket broker at a premium of one thousand dollars each. The billionaire owner of the team that went by the sign of the bird knew he could win if he could his team a home crowd advantage, so he provided all twenty two thousand of his allocated tickets to his season ticket holders. In addition, he purchased another twenty thousand tickets for his season ticket holders from a California ticket broker.... remember billionaires have unlimited resources when it comes to money. Not only that, the billionaire owner of the team that went by the sign of the bird chartered planes for his team's fans to ensure he could give his team the "home field" advantage. When the game started, the deafening roar of the crowd filled the team that went by the sign of the bird with enough adrenaline that they rolled easily over the team that went by the sign of the horse. The billionaire owner of the team that went by the sign of the horse went home with an extra twenty million dollars in his pocket and the the billionaire owner of the team that went by the sign of the bird went home with a championship trophy.... and everyone lived happily ever after.

 

[Axx]

Paul Allen Owner of the year.

 

[BamKam]

We are very lucky to have Paul Allen as an owner who hired the right personnel and let them guide the direction they wanted to take this team. Think about if we were the Cowboys and had a crazy rich owner like Jerry Jones who cares way more about his ego so he won't step out of the way and continues to make mistake after mistake. Dallas is on pace for 8-8 seasons for another decade.

 

[Blitzer88]

Awesome if true!

 

[HawkFan72]

When Pete Carroll came to Seattle in 2010, I talked to a member of the coaching staff who told me that "Paul Allen wants to win a Super Bowl BAD. He wants to be the best owner in the NFL and he has said he will do whatever it takes to win a Championship."

The actions over the last 3 years have shown that to be true. He put the resources and the power in the hands of Carroll and Schneider to make their vision a reality. They would have no excuses because Paul Allen gave them everything they needed.

I don't doubt the OP's story at all. Paul Allen loves Seattle, the community, and the Seahawks. It's wasn't about the money, it was about the title.

 

[HawkHouse]

No Way ... This HAS to be investigated, epic if true!

We need a bust or statue of Paul Allen somewhere ...

 

[IcedHawk]

That's so awesome!

 

[Seeker]

I want the blazers to knock the thunder out of the playoffs this year. I love paul allen.

 

[nategreat]

Uhhh, what is that? Did you just make up that story? It's like Native folklore. Where is that from, who wrote it?

 

[Msfann]

I want the blazers to knock the thunder out of the playoffs this year. I love paul allen.

this! I'm no fan of the nba anymore and don't watch it but I wish the Blazers well now.





edit: I would also like to add that I doubt this happened like that but still i thank Mr Allen for everything he's done for us.

 

[Starrman44]

I thought that there were a few folks here that talked about being selected in the Super Bowl ticket lottery...

 

[chihawk]

There may be some truth to this, but definitely not to the extent as stated in the OP. Each team got 17.5% of AVAILABLE tickets for the game. The capacity of the stadium is 82,500, but that's not the number of AVAILABLE tickets. NFL won't release the number of tickets the they made AVAILABLE. Even if it was of the whole 82,500. 17.5% would be about 14,000 tickets and a lot of tickets would go to the team, sponsors, etc.

 

[woodstockme]

this seems to have first been posted on a Denver Post blog after the game on Sunday
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtop ... t=25048999

 

[mikeak]

Yes of course Paul Allen chartered airplanes to get seahawk fans there. Did you not get the invite? :sarcasm_off:

 

[onanygivensunday]

We need a bust or statue of Paul Allen somewhere ...

Maybe we could ask him to raise the 12th Man flag again. :laugh:


j/k

 

[Trenchbroom]

this seems to have first been posted on a Denver Post blog after the game on Sunday
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtop ... t=25048999

Yeah I call BS. Just an excuse for the Donko fans to feel better because the truth--that the fans of their team pale in comparison to the 12th man--is too much to take.

 

[ASuperForce]

All the whining in that thread about PEDs and the old, tired LOB holding/PI every play false narrative is so sweet! :moon.:

 

[Hawks46]

You had me until the whole chartered plane thing.

First of all, we would've heard about that. And chartering planes for 22,000 fans would be ridiculous. If you could even charter that many planes out of SeaTac at once.

Reading that post, good grief. What does it take for some people to come back to reality ? One post "Seattle didn't beat Denver. Denver beat Denver." What, did we have to beat you 100-0 ?

 

[Vetamur]

Totally false. At that rate nearly every season ticket holder would have won the lottery instead of it being page three of that thread til we came across anyone who's won.

 

[ivotuk]

this seems to have first been posted on a Denver Post blog after the game on Sunday
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtop ... t=25048999

THIS is hilarious! From that article:

Kam Chancellor leaned in as if telling a secret. "My nickname?" the Seattle Seahawks safety asked Wednesday, smirk creasing his face. "Bam. Bam."The words are tattooed on each shoulder. They might as well have been written on Peyton Manning's forehead Sunday night.