sdog1981":n26ft5ni said:
MontanaHawk05":n26ft5ni said:
sdog1981":n26ft5ni said:
I have friends that are NY Giants fans and they did not enjoy a 9-7 Superbowl season because they hated almost every Sunday they sat down to watch the team.
I suppose you're free to hate a Super Bowl season if you really, really want. I'm going to enjoy the ride fully as long as this team is playoff-worthy.
That is a different debate, I don't know what a 9-7 Seahawks Superbowl season would feel like because the Seahawks have always won 12-13 games the seasons they went. I just know my Giants friends were pissed or bummed out for about half of the season.
Back to my and the OP's original point... .
sdog1981":n26ft5ni said:
mrblitz":n26ft5ni said:
i don't know about the giants' regular season, but they took care of business in the playoffs. among other things, they destroyed the packers' oline. looked like a good season from here. my attitude is, if your team is mathematically alive, it's still worth the ride. if they're out of contention, not so much. ymmv
Talk to me in January when your team loses 7 games.
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Actually, sticking to the side road for a trip down memory lane on that point...
YES, longtime Seahawks fans DO KNOW (almost*) exactly how a 9-7 Super Bowl season FEELS.
I'll tell you how it feels... HELLA EXCITING!!
Because this happened in 1983-84, Curt Warner's rookie year. Yes, that's Curt Warner, the Penn State running back, not Mr. K. Warner the HOF QB.
Krieg to Largent in the 4th quarter down to the 2 yard line, and then CURT Warner running it in for the winning TD... IN MIAMI; massively exciting!! Beating DAN MARINO in the process!
Read about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/01/sport ... ml?mcubz=3
And watch the last 5 minutes or so of the 4th quarter here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFOYYZygk7c
I don't know how it gets any more exciting than this.
Also that season, Curt Warner running for almost 1500 yards...
On Warner's first NFL touch, he put together an electrifying run of 70 yards, then fumbled at the end... but the Seahawks did recover.
Not to dismiss the frustration that fans of highly successful franchises like the Seahawks and Giants would feel during a 9-7 season... in 1983, Seahawks fans were STARVED for ANY real success, and it was the team's first two PLAYOFF games EVER. So yeah, I'll confess, speaking for a sample size of "1", i.e., me, that the current Seahawks fan base jaded by success would be howling much of a 9-7 season. But the satisfaction of an amazing wild-card playoff run, culminating in denying Tom Brady and the 16-0 Patriots a ring and undefeated season... now that would be PRICELESS, and would make any and all struggles leading up that just paving bricks on the road to destiny, and I would forever look back on that season with fondness.
That Giants 9-7 World Championship season... There are actually a couple parallels in Seattle sports history, just not the Seahawks.
Seattle Sports Parallel 1: The 2016 Seattle Sounders came from nowhere, nearly dead last, left for dead, and won the team's FIRST ever MLS Cup, with a series of jaw-dropping "how did they do that" wins along the way, culminating in the unbelievable MLS Cup win over a superior (but not quite superior enough) Toronto team. Yeah, the first part of that Sounders season sucked... but, looking back on it, like the 1978 Sonics (Seattle Sports Parallel 2) making the NBA Finals (before the 1979 championship) was one of the more unlikely championship runs ever, especially with Clint Dempsey out of action due to medical issues. Hell, the 2016 Sounders and 1977-78 Sonics had this in common: The season was going so BADLY the COACH WAS FIRED MIDSEASON, and the "interim" coach led the team to the title round. iI'm still in awe that maybe the "5th best" ever 2016 Sounders team as the unlikely group that *finally* won the "Big One".
The major difference being the 2016 Sounders WON in the title round, the 77-78 Sonics lost in 7, though they won the NBA title the following year, just not as a coming-out-of-nowhere team.
I, sample size of 1, will happily accept a 9-7 Seahawks season that ends with a Lombardi tropy. And I will curse and rage at the 7 losses along the way. We know they will nearly all be close losses. And in hindsight, that group would no doubt be one of my favorite sports memories ever, coming back from Sucksville in Seattle to turn lead into gold and Titletown Seattle. Can you imagine if the 2010-2011 Seahawks had gone on to win the Super Bowl after Beastquake? How good would that have felt?
OK, thanks for going with me on the trip down memory lane, and bearing with me during the digressions to Soccer and NBA teams. Anyone who missed that 1984 playoff game win over Miami--go check out the YouTube link and enjoy.
* Almost, because we won 2 playoff games as a 9-7 Wildcard, and needed to win the AFC title game vs the Raiders, 1 game from the Super Bowl.