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Tonight, the nation's hardcore gamblers' eyes will be on Seattle as our fair burgh hosts Monday Night Football.
The Hawks' opponent is the San Francisco 49ers, the team that was everyone's trendy pick to be a darkhorse contender in the NFC, with the eminently predictable result that they've started 2-6. Here's how ESPN's The Sports Guy saw it in his season preview:
Call it the Winston Wolf "Let's Not Start Sucking Each Other's Popsicles Yet" Test--if the popsicles get broken out too early for an NFL sleeper, they're headed for an imminent disaster (like the '06 Dolphins). It's just human nature. Sorry, Niner Fans, you're doomed.He was so very right. The 49ers star running back Frank "The Inconvenient Truth" Gore has only one more touchdown (3) than he has tackles (2).
Now, before you start running to the Sports Guy for advice about the housing market, know this: He ranked the Seahawks as the #2 team in the NFL, and the Hawks are probably the most disappointing team in football that doesn't wear red and gold.
The most disappointing thing about the 2007 Hawks has been the running game, as former NFL MVP Shaun Alexander is suddenly running like Jason Alexander. Coach Mike Holmgren's solution is Occam's-razor-like. Just stop running.
With wind and rain in the forecast, it's not an auspicious time to launch Air Seattle, but expect Holmgren to do it anyway. Should be an entertaining game, if not a well-played one.
For non-football fans, there will be entertainment galore as ESPN will have Drew Carey in the booth, have Seattle-native Rainn Wilson (Dwight on The Office) lead a "tour" of the city, and film the Seahawks throwing (God, really?) fish. Blech.
The game's at 5:30 at Qwest.
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If there's one thing that stands out about Seattle, it's how much we like to throw fish. Kids play catch with 'em on the sidewalk. Many times bicycling home I've had an errant fish end up in my bike's basket, which goes directly into the flour and into my frying pan. Thank god, I say, that TV continually celebrates this homegrown custom of ours.
I've always thought that Mark Sidran lost his respect with voters when he bobbled a haddock in the traditional pre-mayoral-debate fish throw-off.
Whereas Charlie Royer, Norm Rice have the touch of natural-born fishmongers. You can't fake familiarity with gill slit placement. I still hear people talking about Royer's over the shoulder, no-look catch during his welcome speech, when he became director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's JFK School of Government. The bigshot Easterners were left with their jaws hanging.