Will Seahawk Mania Steal Attention from Husky Stadium's New Era Season?

There were times as I recall in the 1970's and 1980's when many Seattle football fans thought or feared that the Seahawks would some day eclipse The Fever and pass-up Husky Football in popularity and sales at the gate, but that didn't happen. In fact with exception of a small number of years under Chuck Knox, the opposite was true for a long time. As Husky Football steadily improved to it's peak in the early 1990's, the Seahawks under probably the NFL's lamest ownership badly slumped and nearly left town. Along came Paul Allen, his new stadium and struggles with stuffed shirt coaches and management, but eventually as we're now seeing, must come the excitement good NFL ownership and coaching will generate in a football loving city such as Seattle.

What's now happening with the Seahawks was I believe always inevitable once or if the planets aligned to give Seattle fans what they've always deserved in pro football entertainment. It's truly disappointing and in so many ways disgusting that the Husky Football which once crammed our old crumpling stadium with rabid Dawgfans was trashed and thrown away by our university for no good reason, but that's were we are......... hoping and praying against hope that an overpaid head-coach-in-training will someday find the way for busting the Purple and Black (Gold appears to be dead) out of 7-6 mediocrity. I know that some of you youngsters must be thinking that the timing of what's going on at Montlake versus the Klink must be most unfortunate, but I believe Seahawk success was always inevitable. It has to be that we as associated with a football disinterested university are our own worst enemy.

Be thankful, all of you. In collegiate athletics, our favorite game of football is for the University of Washington like many other "big schools" the sole source of revenue available for operating and facilitating an entire athletic department of Pac-12 magnitude. If this were not the case and regardless of what the Seahawks do or don't do, we would not be dedicating a new Husky Stadium against Boise State on August 31, but looking forward to our Big Game against Idaho State or some other small college at Denny Field.

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

PurpleJ said:

The Seahawks will get attention if they are winning.

The Huskies will get attention if they are winning.

The Sounders will get attention if they are winning.

Shit, I'm sure even the Mariners could pull 30K to their games if they were winning.

People like winners. They want to pay to see winners play. It's a simple formula.

And yes, some people like to watch more than one sport. I loved watching Race's Blackhawks beat Race's Bruins to take Lord Stanley's Cup this year.

Whatever happened to Race's Kings?

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

Passion said:

PurpleJ said:

The Seahawks will get attention if they are winning.

The Huskies will get attention if they are winning.

The Sounders will get attention if they are winning.

Shit, I'm sure even the Mariners could pull 30K to their games if they were winning.

People like winners. They want to pay to see winners play. It's a simple formula.

And yes, some people like to watch more than one sport. I loved watching my Blackhawks take Lord Stanley's Cup this year.

Of course. If any of our sports teams wins, attendance won't be a problem.

I was arguing with the assertion by man boobs that soccer and football draw a completely different group of people, and that soccer is limited to some fringe segment of society.

However, if UW football remains mired in mediocrity, people will consider other options for their entertainment dollars.

And I'd like to see figures for Damone's assertion that Portland has a "larger per capita soccer loving population than Seattle." Besides, per capita doesn't matter. It's sheer numbers that matter.

Your stupid ass took my generalization way too seriously. Of course there is some crossover...just look at pussies like The Glove, millcreekcoug, and MelloDawg for details.

Sadly, soccer is no longer a fringe sport because more and more of our society loves orange slices and juice boxes.

Your posts just get more and more ignorant. I don't know what part of northern idaho you call home, but if you're going to say things like "soccer is for euro wannabe hipster douchebags," then you should expect a response that points out that it is fast becoming a mainstream sport in the United States.

And your suggestion that soccer is for people that like "orange slices and juice boxes" is yet another example of ignorance. Basically you're saying that soccer is not a competitive sport. Frankly, I don't really like watching soccer (except for the World Cup), nor do I like it when players pretend to be hurt by falling on the ground and writhing in pain. It turns my stomach. But that is different than saying it's not competitive, or physically demanding.

Try to think a little more before posting. Just a suggestion.