With trivia, records, and Seahawks lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Seattle fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by singular players. This guide to all things Seahawks covers visiting the unique home-field advantage that is Qwest Field and must-do activities in and out of Seattle. Now extensively updated, this guidebook contains more than 30 new chapters and features information on coach Pete Carroll, star quarterback Russell Wilson, the team’s vaunted defense, and the Seahawks Super Bowl XLVIII championship. John Morgan writes for AdvancedNFLStats.com and has written for FieldGulls.com. He lives in Vancouver, Washington. 100 Things Seahawks Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die By John Morgan Triumph Books Copyright © 2014 John Morgan All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-60078-958-8 Contents Introduction, 1. The Russell Wilson Era, 2. Your 2013 Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks, 3. Blue Hypergiant: Walter Jones, 4. XL 1: Kickoff, 5. The Many Brilliancies of Steve Largent, 6. XL 2: Second-Quarter Mania, 7. The Promise of Mike Holmgren, 8. The Rise of Matt Hasselbeck, 9. XL 3: Dangerous Words, 10. Chuck Knox, 11. XL 4: Disintegration, 12. Et Tu, Hutch?, 13. Tez, 14. The Modest Champion, 15. The Improbable Legend, 16. The Golden Ratio, 17. XL 5: Final, 18. Subtle Like a T-Rex, 19. Paul Allen, 20. Emerging from Still Watters: The Rise of Shaun Alexander, 21. Curt Warner and the Vanishing Breed of Dominant Backs, 22. XL 6: Aftermath, 23. AFC West, 24. Shaun Alexander, Middle Years, 25. The Hidden Zorn, 26. Zero, 27. Visit Seahawks Stadium, 28. Learn to Love a Rookie, 29. The Student, 30. 2005 NFC Championship Game, 31. Mike Holmgren, General Manager, 32. The New Prototype: Legs and Arms, 33. Ronin, 34. Greatest 3-4 End to Ever Play?, 35. The New Prototype: Brains!, 36. Be Irrational, 37. 1976, 38. Touchdown Alexander, 39. Fidelity, 40. The Pick Man, 41. Pete Carroll and the Power of Failure, 42. The Super Bowl XL Conspiracy Conspiracy, 43. The New Prototype: Away from the Gridiron, 44. Lease the Rights to the 12th Man, 45. We 12, We Seahawks, 46. Brian Blades, 47. "We Want the Ball ...", 48. Pete Carroll as Good Boss or Evil Genius, 49. Share With the Less Fortunate, 50. Cable's Thug Cabal, 51. Elway, 52. Rebuilding, 53. The Next Joe Montana, 54. The Expansion Draft, 55. The Kingdome, 56. When in Revelry You Drown Your Sense, 57. Play Catch, 58. Specialization, 59. The Bit Players, 60. Record a Game and Rewatch It, 61. Lawyers, Puns, & Poison Pills, 62. Engram, 63. Share the Team You Love, 64. The Joey Galloway Trade, 65. The Pyrrhic Victory That Wasn't, 66. Care About the Kicker, 67. Dan McGwire, 68. Better to Reign in Hell, 69. Bo Versus Boz, 70. Make Football an Event, 71. The Whole Sick Crew, 72. Synthesis, 73. Bulletin 1147, 74. Believe, 75. A Dreamed Realization, 76. Visit Training Camp, 77. Cheney, 78. Silver, 79. Buy a Jersey, 80. Watch the Real Rob Report, 81. "The Jim L. Mora Guide to Never Failing, Ever!", 82. Please Think of a Better Nickname Than Legion of Boom, 83. The Stage and its Actor, 84. Let "Win Forever" Change Your Life, 85. The Richard Sherman Fiasco, Part 1, 86. The Richard Sherman Fiasco, Part 2, 87. Sea Hawk, 88. Husky Stadium, 89. Concrete Cobain Cries Bacon Tears for Beast Burger, 90. Josh Brown, 91. The New Prototype: Prologue, 92. Labor, 93. The Hasselbeck Exit Strategy, 94. Make Your Own All-Seahawks Team, 95. Futility, 96. The Science of Churn, 97. Danger B-Russ, 98. A Threat with His Legs and Hands, 99. The City of Seattle Wants to Apologize for the 1992 Season, 100. A Fictional Account of Franco's Half-Season in Seattle, Sources, CHAPTER 1 The Russell Wilson Era "Remember when" is the lowest form of conversation. — Tony Soprano Nothing's so morbid as nostalgia. Nothing cheapens now like constantly comparing the hot instantaneous to the baby blue confabulations of the past. Now Seahawks fans are luckier than most to have been so cursed, blighted, beaten up, and deprived. Entering the 2013 season, the twin peaks of Seahawks fandom were Laura and Maddy: massacred by an inhuman monster (the Raiders playing "Bob") in the 1983 AFC Championship Game and suspiciously wrapped by plot convenience in Super Bowl XL. This legacy is an acquired taste. Very Seattle. There's no anchor in the past to cheapen by comparison the future, no perfect season or Steel Curtain Defense, no Bill Walsh, Bart Starr, no moldering glory days to haunt this franchise. I've a friend who relates with grief the day his voice changed. His life is a series of irretrievable losses. Say what you will about a Kurt Cobain childhood, it smothers nostalgia in the crib. Seahawks fans are optimists. Seahawks fans are futurists. They haven't