"Shoeless," by Flickr contributor gulinvardar We were thrilled to see Mad Men get some hardware at the Emmys last night, since it is a fave at the Seattlest crib. In one of the more stunning scenes this season, Don Draper has a confrontation with his blackmailing adultress, where, with a smile, he seductively slides his hand up her dress, then grabs her by her girly-bits (yeah, those girly-bits), and curtly tells her to cut the......

"Seahawks Gameday Diptych" by Slightlynorth The Seahawks make this season's only appearance on Monday Night Football tonight (5:00 PT) as they visit the San Diego Chargers in preseason action. Jobs are on the line as the preseason draws to a close and the regular season begins in less than two weeks. Teams are forced to cut 5 players from their rosters tomorrow, bringing their rosters down from 80 to 75 players. Here are a few......

It struck us halfway through Green Bay's 5th straight drive for a touchdown that Brett Favre's performance in this game was a lot like Roger Clemens' one-hit performance against the Mariners in the 2000 ALCS. When faced with a Hall-of-Famer at his best, what can you do? Favre was 18-23, throwing pinpoint pass after pinpoint pass: timing routes, hitting guys in stride, and, in the highlight that will come to represent this game, breaking out......

We've been reading and rereading Hawks/Packers stuff all week. Here the few things we think are important about Saturday's game: 1) The Hawks' Patrick Kerney made the Pro Bowl this year for terrorizing quarterbacks, but he may not be much of a factor in this game. The Packers gave up the fewest sacks of any NFL team--not because they have a terrific offensive line, but because they designed their offense that way. Brett Favre often......

Is there drama in Saturday's NFC divisional playoff game between the Hawks and Packers? Well, the playoffs are always dramatic. But this game packs (ha!) even more of a theatrical punch. The storylines: Conquering Hero Returns to Site of Greatest Triumphs: Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren was once coach of Green Bay. He got the Packers to two Super Bowls, winning one--their first championship since the departure of legendary coach Vince Lombardi. There's a street named......

Not sure we've ever seen a win for which the credit belongs so overwhelmingly to the defense. For most of the game, the Seahawks' defensive line was able to get pressure with only four rushers. By establishing that, they were able to drop guys back into coverage, which led to the two pick sixes. The offense? The special teams? Not so great. But let's enjoy this one for now, shall we? Here's the scene at......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. On Wednesday we took our special touch friend to see The Kite Runner. She spent......

On Saturday the beloved Seahawks will play the Redskins in the opening round of the NFL Playoffs. Taking up the issue on whether or not the Hawks will lose are author Pauls Toutonghi, marketing genius Jason McDonald, and comedy festival standout Dusty Warren. YES! by Pauls Toutonghi I actually am hopeful that we will win. Please print this. I believe it is a possibility. But -- and this is a significant but -- I do......

Good God. Receiver Nate Burleson agrees that it looks a little like Hitler's mustache (we think it's more "obsequious French maitre'd"), and says he wants it hidden during team meals, "I told him, 'Matt, come on, I'm eating. Let me finish my meal before we make any more eye contact with the mustache.'" via Sportable and DC Sports Bog. UPDATE: Hasselbeck shaved the mustache off, telling reporters: "It was really bad. In fact, my......

10 out of 10 Pro Bowl voters agree--the Seahawks have more talent on defense than on offense. From 2002-2004, the Hawks didn't send a single defense-er to the Pro Bowl. In 2005, rookie linebacker Lofa Tatupu went. Last year, Julian Peterson joined him. But this year, fully 36.36% of the Hawks' starting defense are Pro Bowl starters, as Patrick Kerney and Marcus Trufant will travel to Hawaii as well. We're happiest about Trufant, a Tacoma......

This is the Seahawks recipe for success from now until they rebuild the offense: stifling defense, good special teams play, and an offense that capitalizes on turnovers and doesn't make mistakes. Defense: Darryl Tapp--who broke his hand during the game, but returned after being outfitted with a massive cast--tied a team record with four sacks in the game. He also forced a fumble, thanks in no small part to his cast. Special Teams: Nate Burleson......

A more dismal Northwest football weekend we can hardly remember. First, on Saturday afternoon--as NYC sportscaster Warner Wolf would say, "If you had Washington State and 45 points, you lost!" Oregon beat the Cougs 53-7, and the game wasn't as close as the final score indicates. The Cougs were down 40-0 at halftime. We flipped on the post-game show to hear the Cougs' radio team explaining why it's hard to recruit top athletes to Pullman.......

Lately the Seahawks' offense has been about as offensive as a Bastyr College commencement address. Against Pittsburgh on Sunday, they didn't score once (much like your average Bastyr College commencement speaker, unless we're talking about scoring weed). What's wrong? Well, it sure ain't the coach. Mike Holmgren has called the plays for four Super Bowl teams--as easy as it is to blame the coach, we can rule it out in this case. Thus, it's the......

As we were ducking out of yet another Garfield blowout loss to Franklin, we joked to our friends, "What if the Huskies and Seahawks lose too! That would sure suck." But the Huskies were only three point underdogs, and the Seahawks favored to beat lowly Arizona, so we laughed the laugh of a man who's about to go late to a dinner party. We were still laughing at halftime of the Husky game, having moseyed......

All-star surgeon James Andrews fixed Matt Hasselbeck's torn labrum yesterday. Hasselbeck's played with the injury, which is in his non-throwing shoulder, for three seasons, but it apparently got too troublesome. Hasselbeck's out for six months--he'll be back by exhibition season, but he'll miss the minicamp where he was hoping to get his timing down with Nate Burleson and Deion Branch. Damn labrums. Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus calls a labrum tear baseball's most fearsome injury.......

--Four inches of new to go with our already substantial base will fall on area roads tomorrow morning. Blah blah blah "drivers should consider staying home if they can." --"The ambassador of Monkeyhut was Nigel, a breed Steve called American Brown Dog. Others knew Nigel as the mayor of Fremont, who made daily solo rounds off-leash to local residents and businesses where he was usually greeted with a biscuit. Nigel died recently at age......

Yesterday some guys from SFist emailed about a bet of some kind they wanted to make. When the Seahawks beat the 'Niners on Thursday night we'd get to post some gloating thing on their site. That was the gist of it. Well, it blew up in our faces, in play-by-play form, no less. Here's SFist Christopher Rogers reporting for Seattlest: Holy fancy baby Jesus on a Kaiser roll, the 49ers beat the Seahawks? In storm......

Josh Brown is a strong Christian, so he may be uncomfortable with what we are about to say, however, we've been screaming it for hours, so why stop now? We love you Josh Brown. Josh Brown, we want to hold you in our arms. We want to fly with you on the back of a unicorn to a far off castle in the clouds, where we can to live together and have babies. Unfortunately I......

- Tonight: Seahawks vs. Packers, 5:30 pm on ESPN and Channel 11. -Thanks to the Rams, a Seahawk win would give them a two game lead in the division. A loss would cause the KJR phone lines to explode. -Quarterbacks Matt Hasselbeck and Brett Favre will play, but Old Man Tobeck's hip is acting up, and he will not. -In Wisconsin they are wondering if Shaun Alexander and former Seahawk turned Packer Ahman Green are......

--Defective Yeti is live-blogging as he reads Moby Dick. And on the other end of the intellectual spectrum, Seattlest Seth is live-blogging as he watches every episode of The Rockford Files. --"I have no beef with gays, upscale condos, hotels and the free market," but all together somehow it pisses Sound Politics off. --"Is that crack smoke coming out of your mouth?" - KOMO springs a public toilet trap on a couple of guys in......

Perhaps it was a need to assuage disappointment over Matt Hasselbeck's injury, or the thrill of being at an NFL game...but something spurred a Thurston County prosecutor attending Sunday's Hawks game to allegedly follow his paralegal into a Qwest Field women's bathroom stall and make sweet love to her. We'd imagine the conversation went something like this: Thurston County prosecutor guy: Hey, me and the paralegal are going to go do it the bathroom stall......

Doctors found damage to Matt Hasselbeck's medial-collateral ligament, injured Sunday on what some Hawks say was a dirty hit. He could miss as much as a month. Mike Sando of Seahawks Insider assesses the situation thusly: Every individual is different, so we don't want to rule out an earlier return. But remember when Mike Holmgren suggested Shaun Alexander might miss a couple weeks? They seem to err on the side of caution, which makes sense......

On the last day of September, the Huskies beat Arizona for their third consecutive victory, and the Seahawks were in Chicago, feeling pretty good about inaugurating October against the Bears. Sure, Shaun Alexander was out, but their potent four-receiver attack had rolled over the Giants. But that night the gridiron gods turned their calendars. Maybe theirs had a particularly ugly picture of the EMP, or Ken Schram, or that WTO protester in the turtle suit,......

If you saw any of the Hawks win yesterday, you saw Shaun Alexander hobbling around gingerly. Turns out he's got a broken foot, and he could miss as much as a month. Here's the thing about foot injuries--they can recur, they don't heal well, and they are impossible to ignore. A guy can play football with a broken wrist, but you can't stay off your feet, no way. Maurice Morris, who's a good back but......

Optimists that we are, we'd hyped ourselves into a pretty good mood about the upcoming Husky football season. (Anything to stop from thinking about the Mariners). We thought--hey--the Dawgs start out with four very winnable games (ignoring the Oklahoma game, which they should probably just forfeit now and save state taxpayers the airfare). San Jose State is a slam dunk, Fresno State isn't that good, UCLA is not nearly as good at their 2005......

The Hawks' own Matt Hasselbeck and his (not un-foxy) mom will join with the man who bested him in Super Bowl XL, Ben Roethlisberger, and longtime soup pitchman Donovan McNabb, for a new season of Chunky Soup commercials. Yes, someone's already posited that there's a Chunky Soup curse. Photo courtesy AP Photo/Campbell's Soup, Diane Bondareff......

Honeymoon's over, Seahawks front office. You greedy fools. The Seahawks thought they'd save a little money by designating All-Pro left guard Steve Hutchinson a transition player instead of as an untouchable franchise player. As a franchise player, Hutchinson would have gotten a guaranteed contract and stayed a Seahawk. As a transition player, other teams could offer Hutchison a deal. The Hawks probably figured, hey, we'll save a little money with Hutchinson as a transition player,......

Feeling lucky? The Super Bowl's the time to enlarge your wallet by beating the bookmakers. You can bet on practically anything about the game. To wit: Who will be the first offensive lineman called for a holding penalty? The Hawks' Sean Locklear is the favorite, at 11/2. What player will have the longest single reception in the game? Darrell Jackson is the favorite, at 7/2, but the value bet is Joe Jurevicius at 8/1. Who......

The Seahawks are 6-2. Happy times! Let's let visions of Super Bowl rings and Gatorade showers dance through our heads. Not so fast, say the killjoys at the Seattle Times: The Seahawks were 6-2 in 2003 before going 4-4 to end the season and losing a road game in the first round of the playoffs. They were 5-3 last year before going 4-4 in the second half. Seattle clinched the division on the final day......

In a two-week burst of activity, the Seahawks secured their three top free agents for the 2005 season and beyond. The team completed this task on Wednesday, signing quarterback Matt Hasselbeck to a six-year contract. This allowed the team to designate running back Shawn Alexander as the team's "franchise player," which all but assures that he will return to the Seahawks. Last week, offensive tackle Walter Jones signed a seven-year deal. The team also filled......