NFL Update
Seattle fans wear their heart on their sleeve and their logo on their head. No wonder Sonics fans were so pissed off. Jim Zorn and Mike Holmgren have been feeling each other out like a Mormon couple on their honeymoon and neither side has looked all that fluid. Clinton Portis has been running wild (85 total yards on 16 touches) and the Skins got a big pass interference call on a long pass over the top to Santana Moss. Jason Campbell followed up with a first down pass to Chris Cooley inside the five yard line and Ladell Betts finished off the 12 play drive with a short touchdown run. Washington leads 7-3 but Seattle is mounting a drive in the half's final two minutes.
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"Lorin “Big Lo” Sandretzky has gone through more than most. A former strip-club bouncer, he has been beaten and stabbed and watched three people die in his arms. He nearly died himself on three occasions during an emergency operation and won the lottery. In the last year, he had two additional emergency surgeries to remove abscesses in his leg, was told he had diabetes and lost 134 pounds, bringing his weight to 419." It gets worse—he's also
a die-hard Seahawks fan.
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Seriously, what else could go wrong for this guy in the blue Seahawks hat? Seattle sports squads are terrible at every level, and now ... this. He's just having
a bad day. Gotta hand it to the two gents on the left who know just how to rub it in with this protester. All were part of the big Prop. 8 march in Seattle on Saturday, with more than 6,000 people demonstrating and anti-demonstrating for/against the California proposition banning gay marriage. Ha. I love this photo.
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The forecast for the San Francisco 49ers season changed dramatically on Sunday from dismal to dangerous; like the difference between a cold, monotonous drizzle and a lightening storm in the mountains. And we can thank Mike Singletary for that. Not only did the 49ers' new interim coach pull a player out of the game and tell him to "take a shower and go sit in the stands," but he went to the sidelines and apologized to the fans (pictured here) following his team's stinky 34-13 loss to the Seahawks. The spectacle then continued with a post-game rant. The 49ers season, of course, could now not be more doomed ... or more fun.
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The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, oh, the first round of the wild card playoffs based on how quickly they've been coming in.
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Peter King
Congratulations to Mary Beth King, daughter or Peter King, target of
KSK's ire, on her new internship.(This photo is not of King and his daughter — I hope.) Of course, PK writes about this internship in today's Monday Morning Quarterback column and her position may create another moral quandary for the Kings, this time not involving Mary Beth's drinking habits at Colgate:
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old, old men
Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander has joined the growing segment of unemployed rich guys. It's amazing that a couple of years ago, he was a top five fantasy pick just and a league MVP. But the foot, man, the foot is not well. And some of the Seattle faithful are
happy he's gone. Like porny-named Tumwater resident Dick Nichols:
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nfl playoff live blogs
It appears that Winkles the Sockpuppet has found his way to Wisconsin, somehow, someway, to inspire Green Bay's comeback despite a 14-point deficit way early on. Seahawks fans — everyone, actually — would be wise to follow along for the second half of this incredibly fun game and see if Seattle has any answer for Brett Favre's goofy underhand shovel passes.
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Vince Lombardi's grandson, also named Vince Lombardi, is Seattle-area lawyer, and despite his granddaddy's legacy he's
rooting against the Packers. Jim Zorn's children had no idea this was permitted and feel rather shortchanged. (Found through
SPORTSbyBROOKS.) Here's a big, hearty cheddar cheese soy Americano for twoeightnine for his technicolorshop work to anchor this first half live blog. Join us after the jump. Refresh early and often, but not too much or you may go blind.
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