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Super Bowl Champions!



The Seahawks are Super Bowl Champions for the 2nd time ever!  We had a great time at our friends' house watching the game.  It was just them and us, so it was easy to actually watch the game, whereas usually when we're there for the SB the guys go upstairs to watch and the women gather downstairs and mostly talk and occasionally glance at the TV.






My love of the Seahawks started back in '82 when I was in 8th grade.  My parents were diehards and had season tickets but watched all the away (and some home) games at home.  So, I had been exposed since their inception in '76, but never cared or paid attention.  One day in 8th grade I just started watching and things started clicking.  I started to understand the concept of the four downs and it all started to make sense.  Then in '83 my parents got divorced, so I got to go to some of the games with either parent, usually my dad.  The seahawks were having a great season in '83, and I went to the last game of the regular season with my dad and if they won, they would make the playoffs for the first time ever.  They won!  And then they won the wildcard game.  And they won the divisional game.  And then they played the Raiders in the AFC championship game (they are in the NFC now but were in the AFC then).  If they won, they would have gone to the Super Bowl.  They had already beaten the Raiders twice during the regular season.  They lost.  GAH!!!!  THEY LOST!!!  Fast forward to 2005/2006 they finally made it for the first time.  Sadly, they lost.  They made it back in 2014 (2013 season) and won, and miraculously made it again the next year, but lost.  And now they finally made it again and won.  I'm so happy and proud.

As for their 2014 win, I was especially happy that my dad got to see them win one in his lifetime, as he was about to turn 79 at the time.  He is almost 91 now and lived to see a second win.






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