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I really appreciated Aros sharing today how he was feeling regarding the abrupt end of this season. Since I believe it's safe to say a lot of us are still feeling depressed and needing a bit of therapy, I hope you all don't mind if I share some of my overall thoughts of how I'm feeling and vent a bit along the way.
Like a lot of you, I've followed this Seahawks team for a long time. From Ground Chuck ... to Dennis Erickson ... to Mike Holmgren ... to the blip on the radar that was Jim Mora and now Pete Carroll, I've seen a lot of Seahawks football over the years. And for much of that time that I've followed this team, I've some pretty bad Seahawk football ... and been faithful throughout all of it. I suffered through the 1992 season, proudly wearing my Seahawks sweatshirt and declaring I was a fan despite all the snickers and shaking heads of the many bashers I ran across. I hung in there during the Behring years and the very darkest hour when in 1996 Ken Behring announced the Hawks were moving to LA ... tears practically streaming down my face as I watched the moving vans heading South down I-5. Though we got close in 1984 ... and even closer in 2005 ... the vast majority of Seahawks football over the years can be characterized as either aggravatingly mediocre or downright laughable at times.
Those dark days (thankfully) look to be vanishing with the dawn of a new era of Seahawks football. But despite the fact that I am naturally excited about the future and the direction that things are heading, I can't help but also feel like I just want this season to be over. I don't know about you guys but for me -- this particular time right now (up until February 4th) is kinda agonizing as a Seahawks fan.
Yes, I'll probably follow the NFC Championship this weekend -- and the Super Bowl as well -- but I'm not even close to excited about it. I won't be able to look at that Falcons team this Sunday without thinking, "We were a mere 25 seconds from pulling off the greatest comeback in NFL playoff history. It should be us who's here, not the Falcons." If the 49ers win, the one thought that's going to be going through my mind is, "We shellacked this team 42-13 and we would have stood a good chance at bumping them off again." No matter who wins ... no matter who makes it to the Super Bowl ... I'm not going to shake that great sense of deep dissatisfaction of having been SO CLOSE and feeling like it should have been us.
Mike and Mike said it best over on 710 ESPN -- for the Seahawks, next season can't start soon enough. That is EXACTLY how I feel. Personally, I can't wait for the 2013 Super Bowl to be over ... for the offseason to begin ... and for things to get cranked up with Free Agency ... the NFL Draft .. and Training Camp again so we can another crack at this thing, rip home field advantage away from the 49ers, and to be sitting here 1 year from today playing for the right to go to New Jersey. Russell Wilson was obviously already focused on 2014 the second that clock hit 00:00. Honestly, I'm looking forward to seeing this season's clock hitting 00:00 as well so that future can finally begin.
Like a lot of you, I've followed this Seahawks team for a long time. From Ground Chuck ... to Dennis Erickson ... to Mike Holmgren ... to the blip on the radar that was Jim Mora and now Pete Carroll, I've seen a lot of Seahawks football over the years. And for much of that time that I've followed this team, I've some pretty bad Seahawk football ... and been faithful throughout all of it. I suffered through the 1992 season, proudly wearing my Seahawks sweatshirt and declaring I was a fan despite all the snickers and shaking heads of the many bashers I ran across. I hung in there during the Behring years and the very darkest hour when in 1996 Ken Behring announced the Hawks were moving to LA ... tears practically streaming down my face as I watched the moving vans heading South down I-5. Though we got close in 1984 ... and even closer in 2005 ... the vast majority of Seahawks football over the years can be characterized as either aggravatingly mediocre or downright laughable at times.
Those dark days (thankfully) look to be vanishing with the dawn of a new era of Seahawks football. But despite the fact that I am naturally excited about the future and the direction that things are heading, I can't help but also feel like I just want this season to be over. I don't know about you guys but for me -- this particular time right now (up until February 4th) is kinda agonizing as a Seahawks fan.
Yes, I'll probably follow the NFC Championship this weekend -- and the Super Bowl as well -- but I'm not even close to excited about it. I won't be able to look at that Falcons team this Sunday without thinking, "We were a mere 25 seconds from pulling off the greatest comeback in NFL playoff history. It should be us who's here, not the Falcons." If the 49ers win, the one thought that's going to be going through my mind is, "We shellacked this team 42-13 and we would have stood a good chance at bumping them off again." No matter who wins ... no matter who makes it to the Super Bowl ... I'm not going to shake that great sense of deep dissatisfaction of having been SO CLOSE and feeling like it should have been us.
Mike and Mike said it best over on 710 ESPN -- for the Seahawks, next season can't start soon enough. That is EXACTLY how I feel. Personally, I can't wait for the 2013 Super Bowl to be over ... for the offseason to begin ... and for things to get cranked up with Free Agency ... the NFL Draft .. and Training Camp again so we can another crack at this thing, rip home field advantage away from the 49ers, and to be sitting here 1 year from today playing for the right to go to New Jersey. Russell Wilson was obviously already focused on 2014 the second that clock hit 00:00. Honestly, I'm looking forward to seeing this season's clock hitting 00:00 as well so that future can finally begin.
