Palm Springs

[AROS]

So I am on vacation with the fam in Palm Springs. I've been wearing my very LOUD blue t-shirt that in bold cap neon green and white letters says:

RUSSELL
KNOWS
(Hawk Logo)

It's been pretty funny to watch all the eyes that glance at my shirt as I walk down these sidewalks littered with human beings that probably make more in a year than I will in 5. The snotty, uppity girls, the older men with their Jags and Benz awaiting them forced to digest my delicious propoganda.

Heaven.

I did get an excitable "GO HAWKS!" from one dude today. I bought an RC Lamborghini (Give me a break, it's the only one I can afford) from a guy wearing a 49ers hat. He was actually very cool. I told him, "Hey man, I'm looking forward to some epic battles this year with our teams" and instead of smack all I got from him was how impressed he was with the Seahawks. "Dude, you guy's got Percy Harvin...Man, we wanted him really bad." I laughed. I said, "I know you did." He then went on about how much he loved watching Russell Wilson. I almost started feeling sorry for the fella like I needed to throw him a bone or somethin' so I said "At least you have Kapernick(sp)!"

I didn't mean it at the time but I found myself smirking as I walked away.

 

[KitsapHawk]

I love it when the Seahawks are forced upon people.

 

[AROS]

I love it when the Seahawks are forced upon people.

It's its own kinda simple pleasure.

 

[Zebulon Dak]

I wore my RW3 jersey the whole time I was in San Diego and I got a bunch of high 5's and Go Hawks! It was awesome. Feels good to be amongst 12's even when you're away from home.

 

[NYCoug]

I love it when the Seahawks are forced upon people.

It's its own kinda simple pleasure.

This is one of the great joys in my life. Friends, family, and coworkers often tell me that they know WAYYY more than the Seahawks than they care to/should because of me. The best is when a stranger notices my Hawks jacket or my Russell/Browner jerseys and says "the Seahawks?!?" and then I assault them with a plethora of Seahawks knowledge and pride that leaves their head spinning and makes them question their own fanhood. I live for those moments!

Being a 12 is the greatest!

 

[FlyingGreg]

Ill be in DC in early June. Can't wait to wear the colors and rile up the Skins fans.

 

[Scottemojo]

Ill be in DC in early June. Can't wait to wear the colors and rile up the Skins fans.

Mind your top knot. Them Skins fans have some serious hate for the Twelves.

 

[LawlessHawk]

Hey you're just over the hill from me in Temecula, have fun... weathers been fine!

Don't feel too sorry for any Southern California 9ers fans, there's very few true ones. I've lived down here since '02, moved from Silicon Valley in the heart of 9er country and I've never seen so many 9er hats, t-shirts, window stickers as I have in the last year and a half... Since we're about half way between San Diego and LA its a mix of true Charger/Raider/and left over Rams fans... but suddenly 9er fans are popping up everywhere... hmmmm... band wagon much?

That dude you spoke to in the store will probably be wearing a Seahawks RW #3 jersey next week... seriously.

 

[LawlessHawk]

By the way if you're looking for a little touristy site-seeing drive take the 74 to the 371 up and over through the desert to the 79 (may get lucky and see some Desert Big Horn Sheep, wild Burrows, etc. lots of cactus for sure) north into Temecula, we've got a really cool old town and a huge wine country with a ton of big wineries... and we're not snobby at all over here

 

[FlyingGreg]

Ill be in DC in early June. Can't wait to wear the colors and rile up the Skins fans.

Mind your top knot. Them Skins fans have some serious hate for the Twelves.

True...I lived deep in Redskins country in Virginia for a long time. Those are some surly b*stards.

 

[JSeahawks]

I was wearing the same t'shirt, "Russell knows" last week while on my daily walk down the bike trail. Some young lil hottie stopped me and asked me where I got it.

 

[djTOY2000]

nice, i was simply driving down I-5 the other day and some young passenger in a van just starts rockin' out as they were passing me. typical 10 yr old doing the sign of the devil, headbangin', you know... I was kinda like "ummm... okay", but then they put their chest to the window and was rockin' a seahawks t-shirt. then it dawned on me, that they must have seen the little 3"x5" logo on the bottom corner of the rear window on my jeep...

 

[Seahawk Sailor]

Ill be in DC in early June. Can't wait to wear the colors and rile up the Skins fans.

Mind your top knot. Them Skins fans have some serious hate for the Twelves.

True...I lived deep in Redskins country in Virginia for a long time. Those are some surly b*stards.

Me too. Or more accurately, the epicenter of all things Stealers, Redskins, and Ravens. It's wonnnnnnnnderful back there.

And to the OP: I do the same. And yes, those feelings of Schadenfreude are so very delicious.

 

[XxxZagnutxxX]

I was wearing my Hawks hat at the Sportman's show in Anchorage this weekend and got several "Go Hawks". They were well received.

 

[twisted_steel2]

Two weekends ago I was at the Dodge/Jeep dealership in Renton, of course wearing my Seahawks cap. Guy at the next table was all in niner gear, sweatshirt, hat, etc. He looks at me, I'm looking at him, he says to me, "I notice your hat, you a Seahawks fan?" (DUH), I was like "yep." And we actually had a pretty good conversation about next season, he's terrified of Wilson, he went on and on about him. We ended with yea, gonna be epic, whoever takes the NFC West, probably gonna take it all.

But then that launched my salesman into his Raider bit, even busted out his Raider logo tattoo. :roll:

 

[Largent80]

Todd, why would you go to Palm Springs?...For sun?

Anyway, you missed out on a lot of great places by going there, and getting back on topic. I have trained my wife to say "Go Seahawks" whenever she sees anyone with anything SF. It is a thing of beauty.

Of course I ramp it up after I utter those words but I am a strapping young lad.

 

[Subzero717]

Todd, why would you go to Palm Springs?...For sun?

Anyway, you missed out on a lot of great places by going there, and getting back on topic. I have trained my wife to say "Go Seahawks" whenever she sees anyone with anything SF. It is a thing of beauty.

Of course I ramp it up after I utter those words but I am a strapping young lad.

We get it Rob. There is sun where you are and its really cool.

I wear Hawks gear pretty much everyday when I leave town. Got a ton of "go hawks" and " you must be stoked for this season?" When I was at a trade show in Colorado a few weeks back. Just awesome.

Favorite place to wear Hawks gear is SF. I will say though that wearing my Dodgers gear there is almost as much fun simply because SF is a waaaaaaay bigger baseball town than football. I wonder if winning World Series affects that? Hmmmmm?

 

[Zebulon Dak]

Ill be in DC in early June. Can't wait to wear the colors and rile up the Skins fans.

Mind your top knot. Them Skins fans have some serious hate for the Twelves.

True...I lived deep in Redskins country in Virginia for a long time. Those are some surly b*stards.

I stayed with a Skins fan in San Diego. Maaan, you woulda thought this last season never happened. All he could talk about was RGIII and he was like Russell Who??

 

[Jake Hawks]

A couple years ago on vacation in SF I was wearing a Hawks jersey and I could hear some guy talking crap to his girlfriend about me. I swear I heard him mutter "F*%&IN' Seahawks fan"

Another time coming out of the jelly belly factory nearby, I was wearing a Hawks t-shirt and some guy and his young son (like 10 or 11) were yelling insults at me from across the parking lot. The guy actually told his kid to swear at me.

 

[12thMode]

I never understand why I always get honked at and people wave to me where ever I go?