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distantmantra
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Sounds like they offered an extra $25 million to keep the Maloofs out of the picture.
crazy, yeah.. i was sitting in that traffic for HOURS.. late for work
WesternHeretic
Member
Maloofs got away like fucking bandits.... oh well we got a team!
WesternHeretic
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luckyboyceo
Member
Would be awesome if they went back to the SuperSonics name rather than just Sonics. Either way I'm just excited to (fingers crossed) have a team back.
distantmantra
Member
Going to Book of Mormon tonight. Pine Box before the show and Brave Horse Tavern after. YEAAAHHH!! Date night!!
Yep, they did the same thing with the blizzard warning faux pas last month.
Yep, they did the same thing with the blizzard warning faux pas last month.
distantmantra
Member
I got them the morning of the internet presale, it was a bitch but we still scored main floor middle seats for a Friday night.
distantmantra
Member
Seahawks.
Ah, gotcha. Not a sports fan myself but I had a LOT of people bitching about the game today on Facebook.
WesternHeretic
Member
You're lucky because I felt like my heart was ripped out, stepped on and then spitted on.
This is going to take me months go get over... Not only that but I lost an AV bet so that mean for the next month I'll probably be rocking a shitty ass ATL avatar.
Oh fucking great... shoot me now.
luckyboyceo
Member
Seriously I can't even describe the emotions I've been feeling today. I'm just completely gutted. Sick to my stomach. Disbelief. All of the above.
Literally just lied on the floor for a good 20 minutes with my head in my hands after the game was over. It's going to take me awhile to get over this one.
Literally just lied on the floor for a good 20 minutes with my head in my hands after the game was over. It's going to take me awhile to get over this one.
WesternHeretic
Member
Exactly how I felt. I was sad after SB 40, but this shit today? I wasn't even sad I was mad. Just piss the fuck off.
What? Come on man. It was a really exciting game, we made an awesome comeback. Future is bright for the Seahawks.
distantmantra
Member
Yep. They played like absolute shit in the first half. Bright future for our team, but I am far from devastated.
luckyboyceo
Member
Definitely true it's just going to take me awhile to get over this season since this was really the first Seattle sports team that has been THIS good in a long long time. I didn't want it to end.
I'm excited for the future but it's hard for me to look towards that right away. I'm envious of those of you who can.
heart still broken
ugh
hughs all around to my fellow 12th
I hear you but this season was better than anyone could have expected though. Wilson is definitely legit. Just need to fill some holes here and there like a replacement for Leroy Hill. Very bright future ahead for sure for our Seahawks!
WesternHeretic
Member
We have nothing else to look for unless you want to count Soccer. Our baseball team is a joke, we don't have a basketball team and if we do we are getting the 2nd biggest fuck up of a team in the league.
Jesus Christ it's been 8 years since we've had any hope. It's kind of hard not to feel like absolute shit.
NintendoGal
Member
Yeah, I went out grocery shopping to stave off the post-game blues. Didn't help, kept thinking about what they could've done right here and there to win the game easily.
The future is bright though as a few have said, but it's so far away now. Ahh well. Hope the 12th man welcomes the 'hawks back with cheers regardless of the outcome.
The future is bright though as a few have said, but it's so far away now. Ahh well. Hope the 12th man welcomes the 'hawks back with cheers regardless of the outcome.
luckyboyceo
Member
This is basically word for word how I feel.
Hoping the Dawgs can make a decent run in the tournament or something.
distantmantra
Member
I'm a born and raised lifelong Washington state sports fan. I'm used to this feeling of utter and absolute hopelessness.
Besides, I've got plenty of other things to look forward to.
my heart is already broken seeing the falcons attempting the field goal kick with 7 seconds left, then that happen.. i almost fainted. ugh
Lol same. I am mostly immune to sports disappointments, long-term speaking.
luckyboyceo
Member
Icing the kicker is just a flat out stupid strategy that statistically barely changes anything, I'll give you that.
I was cool with them going for it on 4th and not taking the field goal in the first half though. That's one of those plays that in hindsight is pretty easy to criticize. I wasn't however, happy with the 3rd and 4th down play calls on that drive. Two runs up the middle with Turbin and Robinson? What? Lynch or Russell should be taking the ball on 4th. Bleh.
I was cool with them going for it on 4th and not taking the field goal in the first half though. That's one of those plays that in hindsight is pretty easy to criticize. I wasn't however, happy with the 3rd and 4th down play calls on that drive. Two runs up the middle with Turbin and Robinson? What? Lynch or Russell should be taking the ball on 4th. Bleh.
Having lived in the SF Bay Area for the vast majority of the time that I've been in the US, I'm a Niner's fan so, unlike the rest of Seattle-GAF, I can't say I'm all that unhappy about the Hawks losing.
That said, I can definitely understand what it's like to have a sports team that sucks. I only really got into American football around 2001 (coming from Scotland before that, I was a huge F1 fan) and from 2001-2010 the Niners just tore themselves apart. We had good players but could never get any sort of consistency to team performances. Jeff Garcia gave way to Alex Smith to Trent Dilfer to J.T. O'Sullivan (...really?) to Shaun Hill and, briefly, Troy Smith. Like I said, we still had standout performances from certain players but the rest was crap. So, yeah, I do understand what it's like to have a team go from years of grinding nothing to actual achievement and then have them fall short in a game like you had today.
However, you guys can take comfort in the fact that you have a young team and one that's only going to get better from here on out. Assuming that the Rams keep developing, the NFC West is looking exciting for the first time that I can remember (...let's ignore the Cardinals.)
That said, I can definitely understand what it's like to have a sports team that sucks. I only really got into American football around 2001 (coming from Scotland before that, I was a huge F1 fan) and from 2001-2010 the Niners just tore themselves apart. We had good players but could never get any sort of consistency to team performances. Jeff Garcia gave way to Alex Smith to Trent Dilfer to J.T. O'Sullivan (...really?) to Shaun Hill and, briefly, Troy Smith. Like I said, we still had standout performances from certain players but the rest was crap. So, yeah, I do understand what it's like to have a team go from years of grinding nothing to actual achievement and then have them fall short in a game like you had today.
However, you guys can take comfort in the fact that you have a young team and one that's only going to get better from here on out. Assuming that the Rams keep developing, the NFC West is looking exciting for the first time that I can remember (...let's ignore the Cardinals.)
That's what I took out of it. I watched nearly every Seahawks game this year (which was probably more football than I've watched in my entire life) and saw a great team that's only going to get better. There's a few decisions I can play armchair quarterback with but ultimately that's all 20/20 hindsight.
I'm looking forward to next season. It should be good.
As a fairweather Mariners and SuperSonics fan I get this. I was never heavily invested in the fates of either team, though of course I was disappointed to see the latter leave.rando14 said:
nVidiot_Whore
Banned
I really try to avoid caring about pro sports.
I feel the tinge of emotions surrounding the ups and downs of local sports teams, but it all feels so irrational to me.
I feel the tinge of emotions surrounding the ups and downs of local sports teams, but it all feels so irrational to me.
WesternHeretic
Member
Being rational 24/7 is no fun though
Amen. The beautiful thing about sports is that sports fan in general are fucking irrational as hell.
We are the most bias creatures on this planet when it comes to our home teams. It's pretty damn funny when you're not getting heart broken.
distantmantra
Member
You could replace "local sports teams" with "video game companies" and it makes as much sense.
ohhhhhhhhh shit.
distantmantra
Member
Actually, devotion to local sports teams makes wayyyy more sense than devotion to private corporations.
nVidiot_Whore
Banned
Something about local sports makes me feel irrational.. video game companies don't.
Like I ignored the Seahawks all season but was still "happy" to watch them win their first Playoff game.. and not happy to hear they lost their second.
I just don't like it.. but it's a personal thing not something I'm trying to project on anyone else
edit: LOL, I realize my username might seem ironic.. but that's actually a joke.. my UN is making fun of fanboys.. I'm not an nVidia fanboy.. there was a guy at VE3d.com that used to label everyone "nVidiot Whores" so I took the name on because I thought it was hilarious.
Like I ignored the Seahawks all season but was still "happy" to watch them win their first Playoff game.. and not happy to hear they lost their second.
I just don't like it.. but it's a personal thing not something I'm trying to project on anyone else
edit: LOL, I realize my username might seem ironic.. but that's actually a joke.. my UN is making fun of fanboys.. I'm not an nVidia fanboy.. there was a guy at VE3d.com that used to label everyone "nVidiot Whores" so I took the name on because I thought it was hilarious.
distantmantra
Member
Shit, I just want my beloved Mariners to have a winning season.
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