Results tagged “football”

It's a book that will sit on our bookshelf probably until we die, ready to supply a quick trip down memory lane whenever we desire it.

When they’re not doing that, presumably they’re making out with mirrors or enjoying the smell of their own farts. Hell, even a columnist for The Oregonian did a Top 10 list of why Duck fans suck. (We can only imagine how bad our hubris would have to be for Steve Kelley or Art Thiel to ever turn on us.)

Please forgive Seattlest for the horrible attempt at a punny play on words headline, but we spent most of Thursday watching a spaceship balloon drift across Denver. So now our brain is dead.

If you missed any of this weekend’s football action, certainly the resulting sonic booms from Montlake and SoDo caused a noticeable vibration in the rock you’re living under.

Seattlest had barely dried our tears from last weekend’s Huskies and Seahawks losses when we learned Wednesday that The Sporting News ranked Seattle an abysmal 52nd place on its 2009 list of Best Sports Cities.

To be a Seattle sports fan this weekend was to rediscover that we indeed had a functioning heart.

This weekend the Seattle sports world parachutes into a Midwestern hot pocket as footballers Sounders FC, Huskies, and Seahawks play within about 300 miles of each other in Indiana and Ohio. Their respective opponents are tough. We're hoping at least two, if not all three squads win, because we think imbibing is much more fun in victory than in defeat.

Gregory Christine, a junior from an L.A. suburb, doesn't have a football scholarship. A walk-on, he's spent his entire UW career on the scout team, seeing live action just once. He was a third-stringer coming into fall camp. Yet Christine, that smiling guy pictured, will start at left guard for the Huskies on Saturday. And already he's our favorite walk-on since Joe Jarzynka.

Everyone has a weakness (even Chuck Norris). LSU is no different. Quarterback is the one and only position where the Huskies have an edge.

About 800 tickets for the Sept. 18 nationally-televised high school football dream contest between Issaquah's Skyline High (with BYU QB recruit Jake Heaps) and California's Oaks Christian High (with UW QB recruit Nick "Son of Joe" Montana) go on sale tomorrow at 8 a.m. at Skyline High School. Cash or check only. We will be at a wedding in Buffalo--does no one check the high school football schedules anymore?

Let's talk about what can happen when a national title contender (like LSU) plays an early season game 2,000 miles from home in a loud, hostile stadium against an unranked power conference team (like Washington). One thing that can happen is that the national title contender will get stomped. Ask the 1983 Washington Huskies.

Welcome to Seattle, Edgerrin James! The likely Hall-of-Famer is a Seahawk, signed to provide depth at a position that has been unsettled since Shaun Alexander's 2006 collapse.

Coach Steve Sarkisian is a micromanager. For good and bad. Good: He was directly involved in many of the offensive run-throughs. This seems like a bright idea considering he's the mastermind of an offense that's brand-new to Husky players. Bad: He hectored a ball boy for putting balls in the wrong place. Can't someone else be supervising the student managers?

The clock is ticking, and at 10 a.m. expect office productivity to come to a halt for a few minutes as single game tickets go on sale for the 2009 Seattle Seahawks football season. No field trips to Qwest Field Box Office are necessary, because tickets will only be available at www.seahawks.com or by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000. This season brings a slew of Midwest teams westward (Lions and Vikings and Bears, Oh my!), so Midwest transplants, be prepared! There is a maximum purchase of six tickets per game. The Seahawks' first pre-season home game is August 22, against the Denver Broncos.

Note that with 34 college bowl games, just about any team with a winning record will make one. So Sarkisian will get a bonus that's nearly the entire annual salary of the governor of this state for fielding a mediocre football team.

The Seahawks' most talented (if not most productive) linebacker is back with the team after finding the free agent waters as frigid as Puget Sound. Hill didn't help his value when, in January, cops caught him asleep in a marijuana-smoke-filled Buick Electra. The Seahawks evidently looked past the incident. Hill, who'll turn 27 in September, signs a six-year deal that could be worth as much as $38 million; the Seahawks solidify their linebacking corps for the foreseeable future.

"Curry is the smart pick here. He plays every down for the Hawks right away. He is a character guy who will carry on the values of the Seahawks and fit into the locker room. He is the safest pick in the draft, but that doesn't mean he isn't good. He will make an instant impact on a defense that struggled last year." -- Michael Steffes, Seahawks Addicts

Your Seattle Seahawks selected Aaron Curry, a 6-1, 254 lb. linebacker from Wake Forest, with the fourth overall pick in today's NFL Draft. Curry, who grew up poor and fatherless in North Carolina, got only two scholarship offers out of high school, but blossomed into an All-American in college. Curry will replace Julian Peterson as the Hawks' starting strong-side linebacker.

Washington State University says they've ended negotiations to move the Apple Cup to Qwest Field, saying they couldn't agree with Paul Allen's minions on how to "maintain the neutral-site atmosphere." Allen, a former Wazzu student, is now forced to suffer the inconvenience of flying to the game in his private jet instead of emerging from his secret underground Qwest Field batcave just before kickoff.

With the NFL Draft taking place tomorrow Seattlest Seth and David sat down with the Seahawk broadcast team of Jason McDonald and Dusty Warren to discuss what the team should do with the fourth pick.

The Seattle Seahawks have the fourth overall pick in Saturday's 2009 NFL draft, and we can only hope they do better than the Chicago Bears did with the first overall pick in NFL draft history: The Bears' selection, running back Jay Berwanger, eschewed pro football for a job as a foam-rubber salesman. (Don't knock it: These were the halcyon days of foam-rubber sales. Think Mad Men, but with even more dames and broads.)

You know times are tough when it affects the long-standing tradition of collegiate football. Word is, the gritty football rivalry between Washington and Washington State may take their annual Apple Cup football game to Seattle's Qwest Field. With the anticipated UW lay-offs and WSU cutting out the freshmen, it's no wonder why they are in talks to move the game, as it will allow the schools to split the millions of dollars generated from beer sales the game.

Seattlest's new roving correspondent Roger van Oosten just sent us this report from the Husky sidelines.

HIPHOP EXTRAVAGANZA: My, oh my, Seattle hiphop fans are in luck this weekend: the Blue Scholars are doing a stripped-down version of last year's The Program, with three nights at Neumos. This time, Common Market will join them every night; Truckasaurus and very special guests are playing on Saturday, Macklemore and Dyme Def will play on Monday night. Saturday's already sold out, but the second two nights are equally as awesome. Don't miss it. Really.

While local TV news teams are already struggling with embarrassing quips about the Seahawks signing of TJ Houshmandzadeh, the former Oregon State Beaver is a physical departure from a core of receivers whose collective toughness has been more reflective in recent years of a rickety china set than a professional football team.

Oh frabjous day! Callooh callay! It's a very special morning here at Seattlest as we unveil a sports post from none other than Seth Kolloen, a man who has been called Seattle's worst sports blogger. We're not middle-of-the-pack here at Seattlest. We go big or go blog. Enjoy.

Primanti Brother's vs. Cooking Super Bowl Preview

Spitfire is impressive to people who are mesmerized by flat screens, not unlike birds by shiny objects. Initially we felt disdain for the vulgar abundance of screens but eventually got sucked in ourselves. There’s just too much to ignore. The problem with Spitfire is it’s a blank slate. You would never know it was here, the only thing in the place that says "Seattle" is the liquor license. No "Hawk fan12" sports radio placards, no Sue Bird bobble head, nada. Disloyal like nearby Sport, but even worse because there was no discernible sports memorabilia anything--not even Boston crap--just a few sports-oriented paintings that look like they belong in Jay Buhner’s billiards room.

Donte is taking advantage of cheap post-holiday travel by heading down to SFist territory to see Lindstrom's only west coast date on this mini-tour, since Where You Go I Go Too was one of last year's best releases.