James in PA
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The first game that I watched was the 1983 playoffs game against Miami. The team from my home state winning in such thrilling fashion was epic. Then (because I was a little kid at the time), them being called the Cinderella Seahawks as a result was kind of cool. Plus, I LOVED their uniforms back then.
Same...moved from TX when I was ~7. Was an Oilers fan originally but not too much of a football fan at that time. The team & I were both new to the area, so it seemed to make sense. How they played the game the 1st few years was fun to watch too. Didn't win a lot, but very entertaining.My family moved to the Seattle area in 1977 so I grew with the Seahawks from then on. Live and die with the blue and green. Before the 12s, there was the "Blue Wave" all around the Kingdome.
I remember listening to a broadcaster call us the cinderella seahawks. Man it pissed me off...I thought he was calling us a bunch of girls. I was like 10 or 11. Then my pop explained what it meant and I was a little better with it...just a little.As the Seahawks' victory over the Broncos in the wildcard game (on Christmas Eve) was winding down, one of the guys in the booth said something to the effect of "well, I guess the question now is 'can the Dolphins ride "the wave"?'"
My dad took that opportunity to sit down with me and talk about what a great season it had been, and to tell me that I shouldn't be upset if it ended in Miami the following week. The Dolphins were really good, and the Seahawks had to go to Miami to play them. I understood. I was hopeful the Seahawks could go further, but knew there was a good chance they wouldn't, but even in that case, the team was still going to be good the next season.
When the Dolphins game ended, I went outside and ran around the neighborhood with my Seahawks helmet and numberless royal-blue Seahawks jersey, yelling and waving my arms around in celebration of the Seahawks beating the Dolphins in Miami to reach the AFC Championship game. I still have vague mental images of that moment, but I had honestly forgotten for many years that it happened on the last day of the year. I did remember that even though it couldn't have been later than 4:00 PM, I think the sun had already disappeared behind the trees, and I did remember that there was snow on the yards (tho' I think the streets and driveways were clear). Because it was cold, the neighbors all had their doors and windows closed, and I didn't see anybody outside. I'm not sure if anyone even saw me running around out there, but I didn't and don't care. I was celebrating for me, not for anyone else.
That AFC Championship game would turn out to be against the Raiders, and the Seahawks had beaten the Raiders twice that season. Could the Seahawks actually get a three-game sweep against the Raiders and reach the Super Bowl in just their eighth year of existence?!
F**kin' Raiders.
Same same! I was 10 years old…living just outside of Cincy. Everyone and their mama were Bengals fans.
[Boldface and color emphasis is mine]I LOVE these threads ! Really cool seeing how different people joined the 12's.
Me ? It was 1992 and I was a Raiders fan. Yeah yeah, I know. Around that time lots of famous people started wearing Raiders stuff for some reason. Everywhere you look some bozo has a hat or t shirt. Hated that bs, so I decided to get a new team. Didnt want anybody accusing me of jumping on a bandwagon, so I figured I'd go with the worst team in the league. Got lucky that the worst team also had the most badass uniform. Had to get a subscription to the Seahawks newspaper cuz they were almost never on tv here in the Philly area.
Man after my own heart.
We have a 38 Club. We should have a Hawk Sleeve As God Intended It To Be Club.
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My dad had a subscription to Football Digest. In the back of the magazine, they had the mailing addresses for all the NFL teams. I used those addresses to write to players from the Steelers (this was decades before they were the Title Stealers) and Seahawks to ask for autographs.
My parents wrote to the Seahawks to ask if there were any Seahawks-related periodicals to which they could subscribe for me, and the team replied (all this without me noticing it was happening, and I definitely would have noticed an envelope with a Seahawks logo in the mail, so I suspect one of them used a work address as the return address to keep the communication secret) and suggested a for-Seahawks-fans newspaper. My parents subscribed for me. I loved that newspaper.
It's my birthrite. Born in 72' and always watched football with my dad until we had a team in 76' then things really took off and I became Seahawks obsessed...in a good way.This thread has popped up in many iterations since the dawn of .NET and I always enjoy them.
When I was around 6 or so, I was a fan of the Vikings. One, because at that age it's all about the cool helmets and/or colors. I loved purple and the Vikings "Nike-like" white logo I just thought was super cool looking. Then one day, I was perusing the Sears Christmas Catalog and came across my favorite page...The one showing all the NFL helmets and accompanied popular jersey (at the time). What caught my eye right away was this sleek silver helmet with a blue and green bird of sorts on it that I IMMEDIATELY was drawn to. When I saw the name "Seattle Seahawks" that was the first time I found out my home city had a new NFL team.
I pretty much threw my Ahmad Rashad jersey in the garbage from that day forward and have been a diehard ever since. This was 1976.
What made the Seahawks become YOUR tribe?
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...The second is that I do notice that it was 37 years from when the Seahawks started playing in the NFL to the start of the 2013 season, so it was about 38 years of waiting for those who had been with the Seahawks since before they actually started playing in the NFL.
That's basically how I became an Ottawa Senators fan as a kid in the early 90s lol. They were horrifically bad and I thought they could use another fan. I stood out like a sore thumb in Red Wings Country.Didnt want anybody accusing me of jumping on a bandwagon, so I figured I'd go with the worst team in the league.