Editor’s be aware: Within the spirit of Tremendous Bowl competitors and a few evenly lingering resentment, Seattle Instances columnist Alex Fryer and editorial cartoonist David Horsey take intention at New England. And from the opposite coast, Boston Globe contributor Jesse Singal and cartoonist Christopher Weyant do the identical. Learn Singal’s here.
When you consider in karma, it needed to be them. These guys. The gamers in crimson and blue with the emblem that appears prefer it belongs to a defunct financial savings and mortgage.
Not that folk round right here spend an excessive amount of power specializing in who’s going to lose to the Seattle Seahawks in Tremendous Bowl LX.
As coach Mike Macdonald famously declared after being requested what he felt about his opponents on the best way to the championship: “We didn’t care! It’s about us!”
Let the file state: We don’t care in regards to the New England Patriots. They simply occur to be within the Hawks’ manner of hoisting one other Lombardi Trophy.
However longtime Seattleites and people who bleed navy blue will utter beneath their breath: Truly, we do care. Fairly a bit.
We’ll let you know the catastrophe on the one-yard line within the Seahawks-Patriots championship sport in 2015 have to be lastly exorcised.
We’ve tried remedy. Voodoo dolls. Channeling spirits. Gamers reportedly went to Hawaiʻi after the loss to symbolically toss off a cliff the indelible psychological picture of then-Hawks quarterback Russell Wilson throwing a final minute, game-losing interception. Nonetheless, the shock stays with us, like a lingering dangerous dream of displaying as much as work with out your pants.
Coach Macdonald, bless him, wasn’t in Seattle again then. Most followers have been. And there are some belongings you always remember.
However that was then. That is now. Carry on the following challenger.
The Seahawks have future on their aspect.
Some groups are favored from the beginning, front-runners, simple bets from the season opener to the playoffs. This yr’s Seahawks weren’t one in every of them.
This cobbled-together group — some recent faces, some wily veterans, led by a quarterback whom nobody appeared to need — gained the town’s coronary heart the old style manner: successful. Week in and week out, they confirmed an uncanny capacity to operate as a real band of brothers on the sphere, within the locker room, behind the microphones.
They talked about love for one another. And as every white-knuckle sport led to a “W,” the town cherished them, too. And now they’re one sport away from writing a wonderful new historical past.
Which brings us again to the New England Patriots.
Past one unlucky play, most folk round right here don’t spend plenty of time excited about the Patriots. After all, former quarterback Tom Brady involves thoughts.
My spouse watched him as a commentator throughout the NFC Championship Sport and remarked: “Oh, he bought a haircut.”
She doesn’t discover when I get a haircut. Possibly I ought to add extra egg whites to my food regimen.
Is it a low blow to recall the scandal round Brady’s deflated footballs and the whiff of dishonest? Looks as if truthful sport to me.
There was a time when the entire nation was bored with Brady and the Patriots celebrating one other Tremendous Bowl win. Each period should finish, and mercifully, so did the Patriots’ dominance.
However now they’re again. I assume you bought to provide them credit score for that.
Who said recently of the Patriots and proprietor Robert Kraft?: “Bob Kraft is a pal of mine. I’ve watched that crew, and also you gotta hand it to him. He had the good crew and now he’s bought the good crew once more.”
That may be President Donald Trump.
Kraft sat with the president throughout the latest premier of the documentary “Melania.” I’m positive they loved it. On this cordial banter between cities, does that piece of political-sports trivia matter? Let’s not get too divisive. In spite of everything, Seattle and Boston have a lot in widespread.
Each are port cities. Educated. Plenty of hospitals. Bookish. Love public broadcasting and liberal politics.
Our new mayor, Katie Wilson, is usually in contrast with Boston’s Michelle Wu. If she copies Wu’s electoral success, Wilson can be among the many hottest Seattle leaders of all time.
There are variations, too. Boston has lobsters, now we have Dungeness crab. Boston celebrates a Tea Social gathering, Seattle is the birthplace of connoisseur espresso. Beantown has historical past. Now we have Soundgarden.
Boston was the setting for 11 seasons of “Cheers.” Seattle bought the spinoff “Frasier,” which additionally had 11 seasons. However if you’re maintaining rating, and naturally we’re, the “Frasier” reboot on Paramount+ added two extra seasons. So there’s that.
It looks like cosmic destiny that these cities would as soon as once more face one another within the biggest sporting contest of the civilized world.
Seattle and Boston: comparable with a twist, like cousins who share an uncanny resemblance.
We’ll make sure to suppose fondly of Boston and its spectacular crew when inexperienced and blue confetti falls in Levi’s Stadium like roiling tears of aid.
It is going to be greater than a win. It is going to be lastly waking up after a nightmare.
I can’t wait.
