The waiting is the hardest part

[HomerJHawk]

Love Tom Petty

Here we go, the end of the first week and we still have to fill another entire week with more waiting, more crap, controversy, punditry, BS, lame ass 'three key points to a Pats or Seahawks win', all just so more money can be made by those selling food. Lol.
And we haven't even started the media week frenzy. Don't get me started.

I remember this part from our back to backs 11-12 years ago.

As frustrating as it may be right now, it's important to sit back, reflect on everything the Hawks have become over the season, and find a way to enjoy this next week.
- Tune out the BS
- Revel in what the team has achieved
- Have no doubt that the victory will be sweet!

Let's Go Hawks!!

 

[Dolomight12]

This already feels like a longer wait than either of our previous 2 Superbowl. SB40 felt like a month

 

[Dolomight12]

Which of the back to back years was it that Microsoft let some of the players preview their new eye-glass tech? I remember Tate & Kearse walking around looking doof.

ETA: it may have been Google Glass, now that I think about it.

 

[NoGain]

I must say, and I've said it before, there's a lot about the Super Bowl that I find distasteful about America. The unending hype over it, the over-the-top-ness of it, the ultra commercialization of it, the increasing exclusivity and place to be seen-ness of it, the drawn out-ness of it, the making of it a more national/world event than a local/regional event, etc...

I've always thought that the single best day for football (in the old days New Year's Day and college football might be it for many) was the NFC/AFC championship day. They were played in the home stadiums of the teams with the highest seeds, they weren't as absconded by the national and hype machine, and they just felt more like real football showdowns rather than a national holiday with the game itself becoming increasingly diminished by all the sideshows.

It's just a football game, and one that just happens to decide who the champion is among the last two remaining teams left standing.

I always have to get that off my chest. LOL

I've pretty much tuned out most of the noise, and am just waiting for the actual game itself to begin.

Hopefully, enough will be thought and said about a team that pretty much came out of nowhere to knock off all the national darlings and prognosticators with its quiet but sheer grit, will to improve, and rather remarkable self belief.

Go Hawks! Stick it to them all!

 

[glenwo2]

Isn't the Pro-Bowl

Which of the back to back years was it that Microsoft let some of the players preview their new eye-glass tech? I remember Tate & Kearse walking around looking doof.

ETA: it may have been Google Glass, now that I think about it.

I call it Google ass.

 

[RiverDog]

For me, it's not so much the anticipation of the Super Bowl that makes life difficult as much as it is that we're entering a period of time where football season is over, baseball is still a month away, and the weather is still too cold to do anything outside. I get hugely bored.

 

[Seahawkfan80]

This is why I go to the golf course. THis is why I am going to the Waste Management tournament this week. Dont need to listen to a lot of punditry. There is golf to watch and books to read in between the golf.

 

[GemCity]

For me, it's not so much the anticipation of the Super Bowl that makes life difficult as much as it is that we're entering a period of time where football season is over, baseball is still a month away, and the weather is still too cold to do anything outside. I get hugely bored.

Same!!!

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

Enjoy it guys. Its been a long 12 years and I'm soaking in every moment. Felt like at times we weren't remotely close to a super bowl and stuck in mediocrity. Was getting fed up of constant references to the LOB days the way the Mariners talk about 95. Time for new heroes and that time is now.

 

[CalgaryFan05]

Enjoy it guys. Its been a long 12 years and I'm soaking in every moment. Felt like at times we weren't remotely close to a super bowl and stuck in mediocrity. Was getting fed up of constant references to the LOB days the way the Mariners talk about 95. Time for new heroes and that time is now.

Love it. Totally.

 

[sutz]

For me, it's not so much the anticipation of the Super Bowl that makes life difficult as much as it is that we're entering a period of time where football season is over, baseball is still a month away, and the weather is still too cold to do anything outside. I get hugely bored.

That wait for baseball would be easier to take if we kick ass next Sunday.

 

[RiverDog]

Enjoy it guys. Its been a long 12 years and I'm soaking in every moment. Felt like at times we weren't remotely close to a super bowl and stuck in mediocrity. Was getting fed up of constant references to the LOB days the way the Mariners talk about 95. Time for new heroes and that time is now.

I hear ya. I felt the same way. I got so fed up with Pete Carroll and his perpetual mediocrity that I found myself hoping we'd lose so they'd blow up the team and start over, something that Pete would never do because he always thought he was just one or two players away from the SB. It's an awful feeling, sort of like watching a terminally ill loved one hoping they'd die so as to ease their pain then feeling ashamed wishing for their death.

But that's all in the past. It's a new era.

 

[Count Hawkula]