My NFL fandom is very similar. I actually like the Seahawks as a kid and followed them a little more than UW football. Started as a Niners fan when they won the first of the back to back Super Bowls but even then, I was a very casual fan.
I didn’t start to hate the Seahawks until 2007 when I moved back to Seattle and went to a couple games and saw how passive aggressive the fans are.
I haven’t watched a more than a half of an NFL game this year and never pay close attention to the NFL until December.
The last NFL team I kind of had a crush on was the late 90/early 00’s Raiders. It was even better when Nip and Tui joined.
It sounds like most of you feel the same way I do about the Hawks. I wouldn’t lose any sleep at night if they moved to Portland…lol
For those who love football whynotboth.gif I remember a fellow season ticket holder in the 90’s who would go to his local high school game Friday, Huskies on Saturday and Hawks on Sunday. Not bad!
I was more into the Seahawks in the late 80s, because back then, the Huskies were in Race's James must be fired/Freedom Bowl 6-4-1 type year quagmire, and IIRC you might be lucky to see six games on TV. You had to listen to Rondeau. My friend's dad was a UW prof and had season tickets to the '90 season and that got me rabid about the Dawgs. The Seahawks sold out every game, so you could watch all 16 games.
I've been to probably ten Seahawk games from 1985 against the Cheatriots until 2010, and I can confirm there is scary, drunken white trash. It seemed especially bad in the 2000s. I've always been to three Raider games and their fans are even worse.
Love my Hawks but it's a healthy relationship with boundaries and space. I don't need to know what she's doing at all times and I don't look at her phone when she's sleeping.
Can't say the same for my Dawgs. This relationship is dysfunctional and toxic with an ever-present fear of abandonment and rejection. Without her, I would die.
I was a Seahawks fan before it was cool. I vaguely remember Dave Krieg and largent. Became more of a fan when bob bratkowski was coach and his son was on my team. Got to sit with the players wives a couple of times. Went to the complex after the season and got to see Tez Rex as he was grabbing his shit for the pro bowl. Different friends father made one of the best saxophone mouth pieces in the US so of course I got to meet Eugene (pre-super bowl whore days). Had tons of husky gear growing up but the mariners were also fucking awesome then and in constant rotation.
I’d say I was a hawks fan first and became a big fawg fan later but now it’s lessened because college football is loosing what made it unique.
My first clear memories of the Hawks were listening to them lose on the radio while driving to Duvall Books on Sundays with pops, and then eating corn dogs and jojos at the Duvall mart that had the game on the radio. They typically were still losing. Rick Mirer and Dan McGwire were shit.
My first clear Dawg memory is my dad bawling like a baby when DJ quit. I remember where I was sitting and where he was keeled over. Pops instilled in me what's important. Season tix for 30 years and I went to pretty much every home game. Pre-game Azteca mexican pizza was always da bomb.
I was a basketball/baseball kid and my pro allegiances were always strongest with the Sonics and Ms. The 90s were rad but Mutumbo, Olajuwon, Jordan, and a lack of pitching fucked it all up.
Hawks still have the only Seattle natty that I can remember. I'd trade that Hawks natty for a Dawgs or Ms natty any day.
Dawgs, and it is visceral so I can't really say why the NFL never did it for me. This is not the reason, but it's hard to devote both days on a weekend to fucking football. I only have enough football calories for college.
Having said that, if Oregon would have won the whole thing this year I was going to check out and free up Saturdays in the future for interpretive jazz dance. It's getting gross.
Sonics '92 - '98 was fun as hell. I don't think they ever won less than 55 games from 1993 on. Then they fired Karl and made the playoffs 3 times in 10 years. Great move, Hackerley.
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The history of the game is that college football preceded pro and I think is still more ingrained and passionate but not by much any longer.
My NFL fandom is very similar. I actually like the Seahawks as a kid and followed them a little more than UW football. Started as a Niners fan when they won the first of the back to back Super Bowls but even then, I was a very casual fan.
I didn’t start to hate the Seahawks until 2007 when I moved back to Seattle and went to a couple games and saw how passive aggressive the fans are.
I haven’t watched a more than a half of an NFL game this year and never pay close attention to the NFL until December.
Currently I'm a big Chiefs fan
I’m gonna guess 90% of Washington males over 60 years old are Niners, Raiders or Rams fans.
That’s who we got on TV during our formative years.
Same with baseball - either Giants or Dodgers.
John Brodie and Darryl Lamonica
Suck it. Roman Gabriel or die!!!!!
(John Brodie retired to Hayden ID -clearly a white supremacist)
The last NFL team I kind of had a crush on was the late 90/early 00’s Raiders. It was even better when Nip and Tui joined.
It sounds like most of you feel the same way I do about the Hawks. I wouldn’t lose any sleep at night if they moved to Portland…lol
For those who love football whynotboth.gif I remember a fellow season ticket holder in the 90’s who would go to his local high school game Friday, Huskies on Saturday and Hawks on Sunday. Not bad!
Free pub
It has always been about 50/50
I was more into the Seahawks in the late 80s, because back then, the Huskies were in Race's James must be fired/Freedom Bowl 6-4-1 type year quagmire, and IIRC you might be lucky to see six games on TV. You had to listen to Rondeau. My friend's dad was a UW prof and had season tickets to the '90 season and that got me rabid about the Dawgs. The Seahawks sold out every game, so you could watch all 16 games.
I've been to probably ten Seahawk games from 1985 against the Cheatriots until 2010, and I can confirm there is scary, drunken white trash. It seemed especially bad in the 2000s. I've always been to three Raider games and their fans are even worse.
Roman Gabriel, Jack Snow, Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, Les Josephson, Willie Ellison, Jack Pardee, Wendell Tucker
Gabriel used to play a native on Gilligan’s Island 🏝️
Love my Hawks but it's a healthy relationship with boundaries and space. I don't need to know what she's doing at all times and I don't look at her phone when she's sleeping.
Can't say the same for my Dawgs. This relationship is dysfunctional and toxic with an ever-present fear of abandonment and rejection. Without her, I would die.
You had me until the final sentence
I realized 17 minutes after posting that the final sentence was probably overkill. Ah hell, whatcanyado.
I was a Seahawks fan before it was cool. I vaguely remember Dave Krieg and largent. Became more of a fan when bob bratkowski was coach and his son was on my team. Got to sit with the players wives a couple of times. Went to the complex after the season and got to see Tez Rex as he was grabbing his shit for the pro bowl. Different friends father made one of the best saxophone mouth pieces in the US so of course I got to meet Eugene (pre-super bowl whore days). Had tons of husky gear growing up but the mariners were also fucking awesome then and in constant rotation.
I’d say I was a hawks fan first and became a big fawg fan later but now it’s lessened because college football is loosing what made it unique.
My first clear memories of the Hawks were listening to them lose on the radio while driving to Duvall Books on Sundays with pops, and then eating corn dogs and jojos at the Duvall mart that had the game on the radio. They typically were still losing. Rick Mirer and Dan McGwire were shit.
My first clear Dawg memory is my dad bawling like a baby when DJ quit. I remember where I was sitting and where he was keeled over. Pops instilled in me what's important. Season tix for 30 years and I went to pretty much every home game. Pre-game Azteca mexican pizza was always da bomb.
I was a basketball/baseball kid and my pro allegiances were always strongest with the Sonics and Ms. The 90s were rad but Mutumbo, Olajuwon, Jordan, and a lack of pitching fucked it all up.
Hawks still have the only Seattle natty that I can remember. I'd trade that Hawks natty for a Dawgs or Ms natty any day.
wherever the line was drawn on the X's and O's, that's where Csonka was running. Never mind who is there. Note finger display.
how could I forget the super chronics!! It was so convenient in later life that these two were #20 & #40.
Those were some fun teams to watch as well. To this day I won’t buy Starbucks coffee, it’s the principle.
Dawgs, and it is visceral so I can't really say why the NFL never did it for me. This is not the reason, but it's hard to devote both days on a weekend to fucking football. I only have enough football calories for college.
Having said that, if Oregon would have won the whole thing this year I was going to check out and free up Saturdays in the future for interpretive jazz dance. It's getting gross.
Sonics '92 - '98 was fun as hell. I don't think they ever won less than 55 games from 1993 on. Then they fired Karl and made the playoffs 3 times in 10 years. Great move, Hackerley.