Sister, just when did you become a Seahawks fan anyway?
...I call you sister because my dad first took me to a game in the 80s so we share a common bond... And I got to see all of the Tom Flores years in vivid living colour in person. Watching us finally win a superbowl when I was living in Rhode Island at the time was the most amazing thing ever after years of agony.
Flores years are firmly before my time, but I heard plenty of horror-stories and callbacks about it when I had minor amounts of attention to pay around the late 90s when my dad started dragging me and the sister with him to watch the games at the local watering-hole. So I (semi-forcibly) inherited fandom at perhaps the worst possible time and then stared through a few years of pretty marginal performances as a teen (I believe the proper pejorative is I earned my wings before Wilson, Lynch, and the Legion of Boom made the Seahawks cool & successful enough to actually
attract fans rather than inherit them
) until 2005* at least created a hope spot...Even if that was made worse by the rug being pulled out and the following years of roughness.
The superbowl against the Broncos I consider a fair return on the prior years of emotional investment with no payoff (well...little payoff, I did have a pretty big crush on Hasselbeck back in the day)--made somewhat-slightly better by my being in North Dakota then watching it and there being a good number of Broncos fans who were just a
little fun to tease about it for the following month.
*Dear any Pittsburgh Stealers fans who may be reading: Your team lived up to their name!😝
Well, at least the Seahawks aren't the Cowboys... although that is a very low bar to clear
Aww, but the Cowboys are 'America's Team'!
*eyeroll*
I don't have anything against the Cowboys, but I do always get a bit annoyed at that vein of pretentiousness in them/the media that covers them.
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