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I thought I’d join this forum and pop in from time to time. Dave Wyman Bob Stelton and I will be doing a big draft stream tomorrow on Seattle Sports from 5:30 PM to 9 PM.
But I’m a fan just like you all and we share a few comments when I have a chance
Hope y’all have a great draft this week.
Go Hawks!
Super hello!!! One question! Can you please help me understand how this is year 50, and not 49?! I am legitimately feeling confused and slightly dumb! I just can't make the math work! Help please!!I thought I’d join this forum and pop in from time to time. Dave Wyman Bob Stelton and I will be doing a big draft stream tomorrow on Seattle Sports from 5:30 PM to 9 PM.
But I’m a fan just like you all and we share a few comments when I have a chance
Hope y’all have a great draft this week.
Go Hawks!
The Seahawks were actually ESTABLISHED in 1975. They played their first game in '76Super hello!!! One question! Can you please help me understand how this is year 50, and not 49?! I am legitimately feeling confused and slightly dumb! I just can't make the math work! Help please!!
Super hello!!! One question! Can you please help me understand how this is year 50, and not 49?! I am legitimately feeling confused and slightly dumb! I just can't make the math work! Help please!!
Zeros have always been a stumbling block for humansI think your confusion comes from subtracting 1976 from 2025 and getting only 49.
What you're forgetting is that 1976 wasn't "season zero" for the Seahawks. It was "season one." That makes this season the fiftieth. The fiftieth anniversary of, say, the first game of the Seahawks' first season will be next season, during the 51st Seahawks season, exactly 50 years after the first.
It's similar to how we're in the 21st Century, but the year number starts with 20, not 21.
It's also similar to how when a child is born, the child is in the first year of life, not the zeroth. So at one's first birthday, one starts one's second year, and so on. The Seahawks are about to start their fiftieth season. Just as a person's 51st year starts on his 50th birthday, the 50th anniversary of the Seahawks playing in the NFL will coincide with the start of their 51st season.
EDITED to add: I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember the end of the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st, when huge parts of the population were confused about when the 20th ended and when the 21st began. It's exactly the same kind of confusion about year numbering. While it's exciting to see the numbers roll over, that happens a full year before the end of the Century precisely because there was no "year zero." It goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE. If you want to give the first Century CE its full hundred years, then it ended at the end of the year 100 CE, that is, as the year 101 began. Similarly, after the other 19, if you want to give the 20th Century its full hundred years, then it has to end at the end of 2000, that is, as 2001 begins. So the change from 1999 to 2000 looks cooler, but the century (and millennium) change only when the year goes from 2000 to 2001.
Wouldn’t June of 2000 be 6 months into the new millennium though, like my daughter is 8 months, I don’t call her zero stillI think your confusion comes from subtracting 1976 from 2025 and getting only 49.
What you're forgetting is that 1976 wasn't "season zero" for the Seahawks. It was "season one." That makes this season the fiftieth. The fiftieth anniversary of, say, the first game of the Seahawks' first season will be next season, during the 51st Seahawks season, exactly 50 years after the first.
It's similar to how we're in the 21st Century, but the year number starts with 20, not 21.
It's also similar to how when a child is born, the child is in the first year of life, not the zeroth. So at one's first birthday, one starts one's second year, and so on. The Seahawks are about to start their fiftieth season. Just as a person's 51st year starts on his 50th birthday, the 50th anniversary of the Seahawks playing in the NFL will coincide with the start of their 51st season.
EDITED to add: I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember the end of the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st, when huge parts of the population were confused about when the 20th ended and when the 21st began. It's exactly the same kind of confusion about year numbering. While it's exciting to see the numbers roll over, that happens a full year before the end of the Century precisely because there was no "year zero." It goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE. If you want to give the first Century CE its full hundred years, then it ended at the end of the year 100 CE, that is, as the year 101 began. Similarly, after the other 19, if you want to give the 20th Century its full hundred years, then it has to end at the end of 2000, that is, as 2001 begins. So the change from 1999 to 2000 looks cooler, but the century (and millennium) change only when the year goes from 2000 to 2001.
Wouldn’t June of 2000 be 6 months into the new millennium though, like my daughter is 8 months, I don’t call her zero still
Zeros have always been a stumbling block for humans