If politics is any guide, the Seahawks should win the Super Bowl

Whenever I see a deep analysis like yours I always look at the poster’s home page to see where they are from. you are from Washington state so I’m sorry, but I do believe your bias is showing in your wishful analysis...

I too am biased. I’ve always liked the Patriots because when I was stationed many years ago on Cape Cod I could get tickets to the Foxboro games really cheap because New England sucked then... So they kinda grew on me, even though most of the time I went when they played the more “famous” teams and I wanted to see the big stars. Latter when stationed in Washington DC during the time when the Redskins were a Superbowl team I couldn’t get any tickets at a decent price and the fans were all obnoxious about how great they were... I became a Dallas fan then!

Now I work as a contractor for Microsoft and have to go to Seattle several times a year. I’ve grown fond of the Seahawks since then but still like the Patriots, too.

So I’ll say, forget the analysis and wishful thinking. I’ll be watching the game tomorrow with a happy heart and pleased to see either team win, and hopefully no blow-outs!

I’m a Raider fan. Grew up near Oakland. The Seahawk hype has been fun, but I grew up in an area where 8 Super Bowls were earned during my childhood. Stabler, Montana, Bill Walsh, John Madden, Plunkett. Rice, Biletnekoff, Branch, Otto.

I just live here. I still think the Pats will win if the Seahawk offense doesn’t show up. They’re a healthier team.

I can’t stand the Pats, or Boston for that matter (the rules exist for the outsiders. If you are an insider, they don’t exist at all). Brady, however, is going down as a legend, and Belichek too. I wasn’t a fan of Dallas when Landry was coach, but only because they made winning seem such a product of machinery.

I didn’t think Seattle would beat GB either. GB’s defense seemed good enough, Rodgers is automatic, and Lacy was good enough to keep the defense on the field. I was right, for three and a half quarters. Then a miracle occurred.

Not sure where you are seeing bias. Kam Chancellor just injured his knee too. Secondary seems to be in pretty bad shape.

I was listening to Justin Tuck on the radio this AM, talking about both teams. Tuck is a Raider. I think the Raiders, maybe this year, could go 8 and 8. Al’s dead. Hate to speak ill of the dead, but he was slippin’ in the end. Carr’s a good QB. A line, some defense, and who knows?

Funny thing - I tried buying a Raider jersey last time I was home in CA. They are still through the roof, even though they are losing. They even have Raider stores in the bay area. I guess the Raider nation is a real thing.

It was so much fun growing up in the bay area in the 70s and 80s. The A’s were winning, the Raiders, 49’ers. After I left the A’s and Giants were both in the Series. I was rooting for the A’s because Oakland is blue collar and my dad was a janitor. Everything was more expensive at Candlestick. Getting to the Coliseum to see the A’s took a little courage, even on BART.

Anyway, it’s going to come down to Wilson and the D. Brady is Steady Eddy. Doesn’t matter much who they put around him. If Seattle’s A squad shows up, they’ll win. If the D is too depleted, they’ll lose.

http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=321014026

In 2012, the last time they played the game was Seattle. Brady threw for over 350 yards and the Patriots had over 450 total offense. Seattle won the game in the last minute, but of course after trailing the entire ball game.

The Patriots played Denver in the 2013 regular season, and Seattle played Denver in the Superbowl of that year. That is what I was referring to.

That said, Seattle was excellent in the Superbowl last year. If the Patriots had limped through the AFC CG they’d have likely gotten walloped too.

I’m going to really try to just enjoy Marshawn Lynch’s runs. This may be his last game as a Seahawk. :(

My wife read where they had a 12th man rally today down at the Superbowl stadium. Security was planning on 5,000 people to show up. 20,000 showed instead!

Go Hawks!

Yes, it may indeed be. As 'Hawks fans we realize, perhaps more than many football fans, how rare and special these opportunities are.

This team has brought together people as a community all over the Northwest, providing an avenue by which, fleetingly, we can set aside our differences and be as one. Vicariously we live through the players, the gladiators and supermen of our time, feeling what they feel - joy, anger, sadness, exultation...

Vicariously, we run with Lynch between those big bruising defenders.

Vicariously, we feel Baldwin's boulder on the shoulder as we, too, have as individuals been slighted in life and have had to overcome our pride.

Vicariously, we scramble with Wilson as men and women under tremendous pressure from great peril for whom failure is not an option.

Vicariously, we live and die with this team.

Football is a metaphor for life.

Go Hawks!