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......

All hail Lofa Tatupu and the Seahawks defense. But mostly Lofa Tatupu. While the offense (311 total yards) and the special teams (2 missed field goals, 30.4 yards per punt, that late game return) were shitting the bed in today's win over the Eagles, the defense forced four punts, two interceptions, a missed field goal, and a turnover on downs on the Eagles' last eight drives. Tatupu, who had three interceptions including the game-clincher, should......

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"......

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. Note: This weekend we are injured reserve, so trading in the visor and clipboard for......

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......

While you're enjoying an unseasonably sunny summer afternoon, we will be at Safeco Field, showing our undying support for the 2007 Seattle Mariners, authors of one of the greatest collapses in baseball history. We're not fairweather fans, not us. We gallantly display our pride for the local nine, those proud lads who...um...ok, fine, we lucked into a free ticket and didn't have other plans. Anyway, misery loves company, so we've fired up the Seattlest History-O-Matic......

This is Tom Landry, the greatest coach the Dallas Cowboys ever had. This is Chuck Knox, the best coach the Seattle Seahawks ever had. The met only once, on Thanksgiving Day 1986 in Dallas. The Hawks won 34-14, thereby proving that Chuck Knox was a better coach than Tom Landry. Even though Homer Simpson bought Landry’s hat in order to earn his worker's respect, and even though Sarah Vowell took a break from snooping around......

When Dennis Green's Cardinals beat San Francisco on Sunday it gave the Seahawks the NFC West title, and with it a back door entrance into the playoffs. We would just like to take a moment to thank the Cardinals’ players and coaches for giving all Seahawk fans an early Christmas present. The title means that the blue and neon green will host either the Cowboys or the Eagles on the 6th or 7th. The Hawks......

The Hawks lost their third consecutive game today, but won their third consecutive NFC West title when Arizona beat San Francisco. The Hawks will host a wild card playoff game on January 6th or 7th at Qwest Field.......

--The "War on Christmas" is a blogger's best friend. --Bill O'Reilly is also a blogger's best friend. --Weren't we supposed to be a smart city, or something? What happened to all that? --Pot may be the new #1 cash crop in the U.S., but here in the Northwest ever green holiday materials have got to take over, at least for the season. --"I want it! You aren't helping me find something I want. You......

Even before we got drunk during last night's game, we felt like we were in some substance-induced hysteria. Just a weird, weird game. We don't think people are grasping just how unusual the weather at Qwest Field was. Not only was it the coldest ever for a Hawks home game (obviously, the years in the Kingdome weren't much competition), the 34-degree temp would've been the 2nd coldest recorded game temperature ever at Husky Stadium. It......

The Seahawks play in Kansas City on Sunday--their first trip there since 2001. But back when the Hawks were in the AFC West, they played there every year. And usually lost. From 1981-2001, the Hawks went 2-18 in Kansas City. One win was an unremarkable 31-19 victory in the 1999 season. But that other victory--oh, that other victory. Setting the scene: The Hawks were down six points with four seconds to go. Kansas City's Derrick......

The Hawks start up on Sunday, and here's video of the last (and maybe best) great Hawks moment--handheld video of the clock running out, and the wild aftermath, of last year's NFC Championship Game victory.......

Seems like somebody always gets dinged for the year in preseason football, and this year it's Hawks safety (and free agent pickup from Chicago) Mike Green. From Mike Sando's Seahawks Insider: Seahawks S Mike Green is probably out for the season after suffering the dreaded lisfranc foot injury. This can be a career-threatening injury, or at least a career-diminishing injury. Chad Brown was never the same after this injury. The Hawks will have Jordan Babineaux......

The dailies bemoaned the lack of pass protection in Saturday's exhibition loss to San Diego, but we saw something fantastic--what free agent speed-rushing linebacker Julian Peterson will do for the Hawks' defense this year. In the second quarter, the Chargers tried a student body draw left, pulling the right tackle around to lead the way. Peterson, thus rushing unblocked from the right side, ran down the play, tackling the San Diego back for a huge......

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......

It's a telling fact--during 2005, the Seahawks only once faced the 3-4 defense (the one the Steelers use)--against the Cowboys, who stifled the Hawks. We've read it in the Boston Globe, on NFL.com, in the Detroit Free Press. But it's wrong. The Hawks also faced the 3-4 against the Texans (who they demolished) and against the Niners (who they beat twice). Now this fallacy is all over the world, thanks to its repetition by the......

Sunday’s Hawks game was the highest-rated TV program in Seattle history. The bandwagon is overflowing, but it’s not too late to jump on. From now until Super Bowl Sunday, we'll catch you up with short pieces on the franchise, the players, the coaches--all the information you need to get emotionally invested in this team so that, if they win, you too can experience the euphoria that comes with backing a championship team. Hawks History in......

As our roommate put it: "How old was I the last time the Seahawks won a playoff game? 28!" After Sunday's dramatic 20-10 win over Washington, the team's first playoff victory since 1984, the Seattle Seahawks (or "Shithawks" as they are known in other cities) will host the NFC Championship game next Sunday against the Carolina Panthers. The winner goes to the Super Bowl. The Hawks have advanced this far in the playoffs only once,......

As always when leading up to a big playoff game, the local papers are filled with human interest fluff. At the Times, exclusively fluff. Like "Veterans get Hawks in playoff mindset" and "Seahawks battling history as well as Washington." At the P-I, and on some internet sites, a few pieces of actual game analysis managed to sneak past the editors. --Right tackle Sean Locklear has a sore hip, but linebacker D.D. Lewis seems better, according......

National Champs!: The UW women's volleyball team swept favored Nebraska three games to none in the NCAA Championship game. The Huskies didn't lose a game the entire tournament--becoming only the second team to achieve that feat. First-round bye: The Seahawks survived a revitalized Steve McNair and came back to beat Tennessee 28-24, securing the franchise's first-ever first-round bye in the NFL playoffs. The Hawks can clinch home-field advantage throughout the playoffs with one win in......

That's not our prediction for the final tally in next week's Iraq elections, it's the combined score of the Seahawks' last two games. They are destroying opponents, something that doesn't happen often in the NFL. They have the NFC's best record and the second-best record in the NFL. One more win will likely be enough to secure home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, something the team has never achieved. Yesterday's game, against an inferior San Francisco......

There's not much to say about last night's Seahawks game. The score (42-0) says it all. So, unlike the P-I's Jim Moore, we will not bore you with hackneyed, purposeless bellyaching. Instead, why not look at a listing of vintage Pontiac Firebirds for sale on ebay. Cool, huh? The Hawks have the best record in the NFC at 10-2, they've clinched the NFC West division title, and play feeble San Francisco next week. The last......

The Husky football team, helped by a Hail Mary touchdown pass to end the second half, became the first state school to win a Pac-10 game this season, beating Arizona 38-14. The Dawgs host the Apple Cup next Saturday. The Seahawks put a death lock on the NFC West, beating division rival St. Louis for the second time this season. Shawn Alexander scored three touchdowns, the last capping a five-and-a-half minute fourth quarter drive that......

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......

Kanye West, we hear, is one hot rapper hiphop artist. And he samples Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman" on his single "Gold Digger." Thus, in an attempt to appeal to the kids, we will sample the late great Ray on this post. Here we go again She's back in town again I'll take her back again One more time The Seahawks are once again tantalizing us with great play early in the season. Last......