Wee Hawk

I left off my last post talking about how I wore my Seahawks shirt to the grocery store, and got a laugh out of it. Now it seems to be going in a different direction. I'm feeling scared and intimidated to wear it. Why? Because this is niner territory, baby, and don't you forget it! Wear a Seattle jersey and look out for your life. Seriously. I bought the shirt because of it's excellent reflective qualities on a bicycle, but when I wear it, I feel like people are trying to deliberately hit me.

Forget the fact that Seattle is a super fun place to visit. It's located in the Pacific Northwest, a place that is home to Friday Harbor and the San Juan Islands  - about as pretty of a place you can get. Forget that they are home to the most beautiful and efficient ferry system that boasts wildlife viewing second to none (yup we are talking Orca whales sometimes). Seattle has a BUNCH of open minded thinkers that any Californian can appreciate: They support green living, gay marriage, and they even legalized recreational marijuana use. But leave all that out. There is a rivalry here in the SF Bay Area with the Seattle Seahawks that runs thick, and it came from where?

All I have to say is Football fans are, to put it nicely, devoted. So, to all those niner fans, I'm sorry for your loss last Sunday. I truly mean that. But hey, there were four teams playing last week and half of them lost. Right? Time to root for a different team, folks, if you can muster it. So this entry is to help sway you to the green, white, and blue side. 

A lot of Seattle's really great players come from the Bay Area. Number 24, RB, Marshawn Lynch played for the Bears, as did Number 92, DT, Brandon Mebane. The Hawks have two Stanford Cardinals on their team as well, Number 89, WR, Doug Baldwin, and infamous Number 25, CB, Richard Sherman. Seattle's running back, the one the Saints put on the injured list and effectively took out of play two weeks ago, number 22, Robert Turbin... his hometown is Fremont, CA. Even our coach came from San Francisco, he attended Redwood High School, and eventually went on to coach USC. 

Although the QB, Russell Wilson is an Ohio native, he merits mention here. He is an excellent athlete, and has only been on the Hawks' roster for 2 years. This 25 year old, who in 2 short years has led Seattle to the Super Bowl - something they have NEVER won, also happens to play some very mean baseball. He was picked up by the Baltimore Orioles after High School, but decided to go to college (NC State) instead. In 2010, he was drafted by the Colorado Rockies, and this past December, he was recently drafted by the Texas Rangers because of some MLB draft rule.

All that being stated, Seattle may have the the cutest 3  year old fan in the world, who is gaining popularity by the moment. Check out this video of her...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULFU4QJZi-w 

Open your mind, San Francisco. Our neighbors are going to the Super Bowl, and even though most of the odds are stacked up against them, they may just take the win in the second half of the game.

And remember, you heard it here first.