Your biggest moment in Seattle sports?

[IndyHawk]

95 for me, I jumped high off the couch and almost hit my head on the ceiling -
The Ms were horrible for so long and the release of energy at the moment had
been building up for years.

The Hawks, you knew they were going to get the SB at some point, it's been
three times and Ms are still at zero WS/Championships.

Don't take me wrong, I loved the Denver beatdown which is in between the two
we should have won.. I'm still pissed at those two losses ha ha.

 

[Sol Duc]

The Seattle Supersonics winning the NBA Championship baby! Pure Gold+.
Followed closely by the Seahawks crushing the Donkeys in the Superbowl.

This.

 

[seabowl]

In person: The Tip, Beastquake, 2005 NFC Championship.

MNF game in Lambeau Field in 1999. Holmgren's first time back to Green Bay. We kicked their ass. Fun Halloween weekend.

Sadly I saw Super Bowl XL* in person (major retching noise here) and didn't attend Super Bowl 48.

I remember that Monday night Green Bay game. I was so excited that they beat Green Bay. I remember our wide receiver Mayes (I believe we got from Green Bay) scoring a touchdown and doing a fake Lambeau leap. That was one of the first times I actually felt we had a decent team since the mid 80s.

 

[toffee]

Biggest moment?

The off-season of 2025, and yes, we are experiencing it. Decades from now, we will look back and smile. Remembering a great off-season and how it paved the way for a lasting dynasty.

 

[Sperrydogg]

Biggest moment?

The off-season of 2025, and yes, we are experiencing it. Decades from now, we will look back and smile. Remembering a great off-season and how it paved the way for a lasting dynasty.

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^hahaha

 

[Madrid Hawk]

In XLVIII, the snap over Manning's head for a safety and Harvin's kick-off return TD were huge. But for me, *the* moment was Kam Chancellor introducing himself to Damaryus Thomas on that pass play across the middle when the Hawks were only up 5-0.

That one tone-setter said, "Uh uh, not today."

Should have been MVP.

 

[CouchLogic]

I went to a luncheon hosted by the team in Elementary School and was able to meet a bunch of players/coaches. Not the biggest moment ever, but it was cool as a kid, lol.

 

[Sprfunk]

This might be one of my favorite moments

I was there with my wife and kids. It was an amazing experience for me. I dont know if the kids understood the moment, but the crowds reaction was a hint for them about the importance. We danced like crazy during fireworks night later that night. Great use of a day.

Watching the comeback win against Greenway in the nfcc game was crazy. I watched it with my brother who was later lost to ALS. Good memories of that game. He almost named his son Seahawks. No joke.

Watching the the superbowl win takes the cake for me. Surrounded by family, the 1,000,000 person parade, and a year of grinning ear to ear.

 

[MagnificentSeven]

The Superbowl Win was # 1 by far, since I don't follow Seattle sports much otherwise.

A close # 2 was the Krieg to Skansi TD in 1990 against the Chiefs. For you youngins', playing in Arrowhead was Kryptonite to our beloved Hawks...they hadn't won a road game there in over a decade. Derrick Thomas had like 47 sacks in that game too. It was a roller coaster of emotions, and Seattle pulled off a miracle play in the final seconds to secure a win. I'm not a super-emotional guy, but it felt like we won 10 Superbowls that day.

 

[tonyseahawk]

Agree. What a memory. Nice write.

Everything about that game. The buildup, like you said. The HATED 49ers. PC vs. Harbaugh. LOB. Marshawn. The crowd.

Like you, I had no fear whatsoever of whoever came out of the AFC. This was the SB game to me.

This. I was there for this game. Absolutely insane. The sb win was a dream..but winning this game, the real super bowl against the 2 best teams in that fashion will stay in me like fire until my last breath

 

[HawkinNY]

The Seattle Supersonics winning the NBA Championship baby! Pure Gold+.
Followed closely by the Seahawks crushing the Donkeys in the Superbowl.

You mean the Oklahoma Thunder winning their first championship? According to the team SuperSonics never existed.

 

[AnimeAmore]

Watching Steve Scheffler hitting a wide-open 7 footer.

 

[Ostatehawk]

I was talking PNW sports with an buddy from Oregon and we stumbled onto what I think is a good question; what is your biggest moment as a fan in Seattle pro sports history? For us, it came down to 2 games: Superbowl 48 or Game 5 of the 1995 ALDS. I guess it's a little age dependent, but when I really thought about it, the answer was the '95 Mariners ALDS Game 5 and it really wasn't all that close. Yeah, I was outside of my mind ecstatic after we won our Lombardi *cough*shouldhavbeenoursecondtrophy*cough*. But for me, the '95 Mariner season build up, almost losing the team, the vote for the new ballpark, the one game playoff with the Angels, going down 0-2 to the Yanks in the ALDS and then the 3 game rip in the Kingdome culminating in Game 5 was/is pretty hard to beat.

No wrong answers here, just curious. What say you?

(Mods: feel free to move, was just curious what most Seahawks first guys/gals thought on this question)

Since I saw Oregon in your post - I thought I could tell you what event WAS NOT the greatest in NW history.............. the ducks winning a national championship in football. Because it did not happen and never will.

And for the record it was Superbowl 48.

 

[Sperrydogg]

Felix Hernandez going into Boston against Daisuke Matzuzaka in daisuke’s debut and Felix not only out-dueled him but he threw a one hitter.

 

[rjdriver]

Maybe not a humongous moment historically, but one of my favorite moments was Russ’ rookie year playing the patriots and he put up a bomb down the seam to Sydney Rice who laid out for it a caught it sliding into the end zone to win the game.

And that catch reminded me of Josh Gordon’s diving fingertip grab. One play put him in to Seahawks history

Yes sir….

I was there for my wedding anniversary. I wanted to travel from Utah to take my wife to her first game at the Clink.

Problem was, Seahawks tickets plus plane tickets were pricey. I posted here on .NET that I was looking for tickets with the disclaimer that I couldn’t spend too much over face value.

Two days later, I got a DM saying Happy Anniversary from a member here with a ticket transfer. Unfortunately, when I saw the seats I had to tell him that I couldn’t afford lower bowl 50 yard line. He responded back again, “Happy Anniversary, the only payment is cheering loud”. Speechless.

Was one of the most memorable days in my life.

Here’s a pic of that day.

 

[NoGain]

Yes sir….

I was there for my wedding anniversary. I wanted to travel from Utah to take my wife to her first game at the Clink.

Problem was, Seahawks tickets plus plane tickets were pricey. I posted here on .NET that I was looking for tickets with the disclaimer that I couldn’t spend too much over face value.

Two days later, I got a DM saying Happy Anniversary from a member here with a ticket transfer. Unfortunately, when I saw the seats I had to tell him that I couldn’t afford lower bowl 50 yard line. He responded back again, “Happy Anniversary, the only payment is cheering loud”. Speechless.

Was one of the most memorable days in my life.

Here’s a pic of that day.
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That's really cool. Makes me feel good about humankind and our little community here.

 

[projectorfreak]

Yes sir….

I was there for my wedding anniversary. I wanted to travel from Utah to take my wife to her first game at the Clink.

Problem was, Seahawks tickets plus plane tickets were pricey. I posted here on .NET that I was looking for tickets with the disclaimer that I couldn’t spend too much over face value.

Two days later, I got a DM saying Happy Anniversary from a member here with a ticket transfer. Unfortunately, when I saw the seats I had to tell him that I couldn’t afford lower bowl 50 yard line. He responded back again, “Happy Anniversary, the only payment is cheering loud”. Speechless.

Was one of the most memorable days in my life.

Here’s a pic of that day.
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Had club season tix for 5 years and they were def the best seats in the house and always fun , spent a few games just eating n drinkin at the stagecoach lounge and watchin shawn just run roughshod over teams a few times an beggin holmie to let him back in the game , super fun times and bet you had a great anniversary , couldn't have been a nicer gift from obviously a great person , member of .net
Go Hawks
Go .net

 

[Morpheus08]

I was talking PNW sports with an buddy from Oregon and we stumbled onto what I think is a good question; what is your biggest moment as a fan in Seattle pro sports history? For us, it came down to 2 games: Superbowl 48 or Game 5 of the 1995 ALDS. I guess it's a little age dependent, but when I really thought about it, the answer was the '95 Mariners ALDS Game 5 and it really wasn't all that close. Yeah, I was outside of my mind ecstatic after we won our Lombardi *cough*shouldhavbeenoursecondtrophy*cough*. But for me, the '95 Mariner season build up, almost losing the team, the vote for the new ballpark, the one game playoff with the Angels, going down 0-2 to the Yanks in the ALDS and then the 3 game rip in the Kingdome culminating in Game 5 was/is pretty hard to beat.

No wrong answers here, just curious. What say you?

(Mods: feel free to move, was just curious what most Seahawks first guys/gals thought on this question)

The Superbowl will always be the top of my list. My favorite in person memory was watching the Tony Romo bobbled snap from the Hawks Nest. We were so close to the players, and it was louder than anything I'd ever heard at a game!! It was also the first game my wife attended and she has been a fan since that day!

 

[TwilightError]

Beating the 49ers in the NFC championship game. In Seattle. Paul Allen raising the flag. Coming from behind to win. 12th man going crazy. The tip.

It should be the Super Bowl win but it just feels like this game. I hated the Harbaugh-Niners so much… To lose to them in the Championship game would have been soul crushing. So this one gave the biggest euphoria, but without the ring I might not see it that way. Just the way it played out, this was the biggest moment for me.

 

[Aussie Seahawk]

This is rather lengthy, but it is about the two Seahawks games I attended at the Kingdome in October 1996. I sent a daily email summary of my three weeks in the Seattle area to a friend in Adelaide, which he printed and mailed in batches to my wife, because we didn't have email/internet at home back then.

Sunday 27 October, 1996

This was the day I lived my wish to go to the Kingdome, to see the Seattle Seahawks thrash the San Diego Chargers, 32-13. There were only 39,000 people there, which was a shame, as it holds 64,000. But they got warmed up as the game got better, and I was rather hoarse and very thirsty afterwards, from yelling all the time. We had great seats, in the front row of the second deck, overlooking the corner of the endzone, and we had a direct line of sight down the Seahawk sideline, where Dennis Erickson plotted the plays, and the cheerleaders performed their nonstop routines. Since the field is so much smaller than an Australian football oval, it was easy to see the entire playing surface. I couldn't resist helping the Seahawks' secondary by copying their "lift the roof" signals for the crowd to make some NOISE on third downs...

At halftime it was a Polish hot dog and Thomas Kemper Hefeweizen for me, which was about the size of a dustbin. I got an armful of bumper stickers after the game - given to me in amazement when the lady handing them out from KIRO-TV realised I was Australian, and a membership form for the "keep our Hawks in Seattle" campaign; my outrage at the owner's attempted move of the franchise to Los Angeles, before the season even started, was how I met my hosts in the first place. They had never been to the football in Seattle before: coming from Napa, near San Francisco, they are of course both dedicated San Francisco 49er fans.

I loved the trip over in the ferry, and the walk through downtown and Pioneer Square, to the Kingdome, something I have wanted to do since I started following American Football in 1984. There were so many people in Seahawks regalia, all talking about football, nursing their thermos coffee mugs, which seems to be a ferry tradition for regular pedestrian commuters. So civilised - Seattle could easily be home for me... and a great climate as well (in my opinion, anyway!)

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Sunday 3 November, 1996

We went to the Seattle-Houston game at the Kingdome... what an EXPERIENCE!!!

Al Del Greco lines up for the potential game-winning field goal for the Oilers, with only 16 seconds left to play, and the scores tied - I am on my feet yelling BLOCK-BLOCK-BLOCK

and it is BLOCKEDDDD!!!

and

returned

for a Seattle touchdown by Michael Sinclair, to win the game!

23-16!!!

Couldn't believe it! Sadly, only 38,000 - supposedly the smallest crowd ever at the Kingdome(?) The guy next to me was going nuts like everyone, and I just about knocked both he and my friend out of the stand, as it was high-fives all around, and much yelling and screaming and delirium. I had seen two Seahawks NFL games at the Kingdome, for two wins, one decided on the very last play of the game!!!