In 2006, when the Seahawks went to their first Tremendous Bowl, I noticed a narrative written by an East Coast sports activities author who recognized the group’s hometown as “Seattle, Oregon.” It appeared again then that, regardless of being a leading edge financial powerhouse that had given rise to main enterprises resembling Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks, Nordstrom and Amazon, Seattle was nonetheless perceived by people east of the Mississippi as a frontier city within the far nook of the nation whose actual location was hidden within the wet mist.
For a very long time, Seattle’s sports activities groups, too, have been typically discounted, if not missed, by the East Coast-centered sports activities leisure advanced that handled the Pacific Northwest as a backwater. Twenty years later, that has modified. With the Seahawks’ dominating win within the 2026 Tremendous Bowl that crushed the hopes of a resurgent New England Patriots group, anybody who nonetheless can not discover Seattle on a map might be the sort of one who has bother discovering their method out of an airport restroom.
Even in this moment of triumph, it may be acknowledged that the glories of sports activities groups are fleeting and ephemeral. Seattle can be an awesome and beautiful metropolis, even with out the Seahawks. And the distinctive efficiency of the skilled athletes who’ve been gathered from all around the nation to play on the native NFL group doesn’t make any of us who reside in Seattle distinctive; none of us made these touchdowns or took these hits to our our bodies.
Nonetheless, Seattle’s group profitable one of the crucial vital championships in American sports activities gives a vicarious thrill that makes us really feel higher about ourselves and our neighborhood. If nothing else, a Tremendous Bowl victory makes Seattle loom giant on the map of our minds and makes us just a bit happier to stay right here.
So, let’s seize this second to have a good time our group and our city. Go Seahawks! And go Seattle!
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