Seattle Seahawks

Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks
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	Established June 4, 1974; 50 years ago; Play in CenturyLink Field; Seattle, Washington; Headquartered in the Virginia Mason Athletic Center; Renton, Washington
League / conference affiliations
	National Football League (1976–present) American Football Conference (1977–2001) AFC West (1977–2001); ; National Football Conference (1976, 2002–present) NFC West (1976, 2002–present); ;
Uniforms
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Team colors	College Navy, Action Green, Wolf Grey
Mascot	Blitz and Taima the Hawk (since 2007)
Personnel
Owner(s)	Paul Allen
Chairman	Paul Allen
CEO	Peter McLoughlin
General manager	John Schneider
Head coach	Pete Carroll
Team history
	Seattle Seahawks (1976–present);
Team nicknames
	The 'Hawks; The Blue Wave (1984–1986); The Legion of Boom (Secondary, 2012–present);
Championships
	League championships (1); Super Bowl championships (1); 2013 (XLVIII);
	Conference championships (2) NFC: 2005, 2013;
	Division championships (8) AFC West: 1988, 1999; NFC West: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013;
Playoff appearances (13)
	NFL: 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013;
Home fields
	The Kingdome (1976–1999), Played first half of the 1994 season at Husky Stadium; Husky Stadium (First half of the 1994 season due to repairs at The Kingdome; 2000–2001); CenturyLink Field (2002–present) a.k.a. Seahawks Stadium (2002–2003); a.k.a. Qwest Field (2004–2010); ;

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, Washington. They are members of the National Football League (NFL) and the current Super Bowl champions. They are members of the NFC West division of the National Football Conference (NFC). The Seahawks joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Seattle Seahawks have no relation to the defunct Miami Seahawks of the All-America Football Conference. The Seahawks are owned by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and are currently coached by Pete Carroll. Since 2002, the Seahawks have played their home games at CenturyLink Field, located south of downtown Seattle. The Seahawks previously played home games in the Kingdome (1976–1999) and Husky Stadium (1994, 2000–2001).

The Seahawks are the only NFL franchise located in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and thus attract support from a wide geographical area, including Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska, as well as Canadian fans in British Columbia and Alberta.^[3]

Seahawks fans have been referred to collectively as the "12th Man",^[4]^[5]^[6] "12th Fan"^[7]^{[disputed – discuss]}, or "12s".^[8]^[9]^[10] The Seahawks' fans have twice set the Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd noise at a sporting event, first on September 15, 2013, registering 136.6 dB during a game against the San Francisco 49ers^[11] and again on December 2, 2013, during a Monday Night Football game against the New Orleans Saints, with a roar of 137.6 dB.^[12]^[13]

Over the years the Seahawks have had some notable players on the team, such as Steve Largent, Dave Brown, Jim Zorn, Dave Krieg, John Randle, Kenny Easley, Curt Warner, Joe Nash, Brian Blades, Cortez Kennedy, Joey Galloway, Walter Jones, Steve Hutchinson, Shaun Alexander, Matt Hasselbeck, Marcus Trufant, and Brandon Browner. Largent, Kennedy, and Moon have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as was Jones in 2014.^[14] Easley, Jones, Kennedy, Krieg, Largent, Warner, and Zorn have been inducted into the Seahawks Ring of Honor, along with cornerback Dave Brown and defensive end Jacob Green.

The Seahawks have won eight division titles and two conference championships. They are the only team to have played in both the AFC and NFC Championship Games. They have appeared in two Super Bowls, most recently Super Bowl XLVIII where they defeated the Denver Broncos 43-8 to win their first title.

Franchise history

As per one of the agreed parts of the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger, the NFL began planning to expand from 26 to 28 teams.^[15] In June 1972, Seattle Professional Football Inc., a group of Seattle business and community leaders, announced its intention to acquire an NFL franchise for the city of Seattle.^[16] In June 1974, the NFL gave the city an expansion franchise. That December, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced the official signing of the franchise agreement by Lloyd W. Nordstrom, representing the Nordstrom family as majority partners for the consortium.^[17]

In March 1975, John Thompson, former Executive Director of the NFL Management Council and a former Washington Husky executive, was hired as the general manager of the new team. The team was originally going to be called the Seattle Kings, but the name Seattle Seahawks ("Seahawk" is another name for Osprey) was selected on June 17, 1975 after a public naming contest which drew more than 20,000 entries and over 1,700 different names.

Thompson recruited and hired Jack Patera, a Minnesota Vikings assistant coach, to be the first head coach of the Seahawks; the hiring was announced on January 3, 1976. The expansion draft was held March 30–31, 1976, with Seattle and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers alternating picks for rounds selecting unprotected players from the other 26 teams in the league.^[18] The Seahawks were awarded the 2nd overall pick in the 1976 draft, a pick they used on defensive tackle Steve Niehaus. The team took the field for the first time on August 1, 1976 in a pre-season game against the San Francisco 49ers in the then newly constructed Kingdome.

The Seahawks are, to date, the only NFL team to switch conferences twice in the post-merger era. The franchise began play in 1976 in the aforementioned NFC West but switched conferences with the Buccaneers after one season and joined the AFC West. This realignment was dictated by the league as part of the 1976 expansion plan, so that both expansion teams could play each other twice and every other NFL franchise once (the ones in their conference at the time) during their first two seasons. The Seahawks won both matchups against the Buccaneers in their first two seasons, the former of which was the Seahawks' very first regular season victory.

In 1983, the Seahawks hired Chuck Knox as head coach. Finishing with a 9–7 record, the Seahawks made their first post-season appearance, defeating the Denver Broncos in the Wild Card Round, and then the Miami Dolphins, before losing in the AFC Championship to the Los Angeles Raiders. The following season, the Seahawks had their best season before 2005, finishing 12–4.^[19] Knox won the NFL Coach of the Year Award.

The Seahawks won their first division title in 1988, but from 1989 to 1998 had poor records and did not play in the post-season. The team almost relocated, and was in bankruptcy for a short period. In 1997, Microsoft co-creator Paul Allen purchased the team, and in 1999 Mike Holmgren was hired as head coach. He would coach for 10 seasons. The Seahawks won their second division title, as well as a wild card berth in the playoffs.

In 2002, the Seahawks returned to the NFC West as part of an NFL realignment plan that gave each conference four balanced divisions of four teams each. This realignment restored the AFC West to its initial post-merger roster of original AFL teams Denver, San Diego, Kansas City, and Oakland.

In the 2005 season, the Seahawks had their best season in franchise history with a record of 13–3, a feat that would later be matched in 2013. That record earned them the #1 seed in the NFC. They won the NFC Championship Game in 2005, but lost in Super Bowl XL against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The loss was controversial; NFL Films has Super Bowl XL at number 8 on its top ten list of games with controversial referee calls.^[20] Before 2005, Seattle had the longest drought of playoff victories of any NFL team, dating back to the 1984 season. That drought was ended with a 20–10 win over the Washington Redskins in the 2005 playoffs.

Starting in the 1998 season, Blitz has been the Seahawks' official mascot. In the 2003 and 2004 seasons, a hawk named Faith would fly around the stadium just before the team came out of the tunnel. However, because of her relative small size and an inability to be trained to lead the team out of a tunnel, Faith was replaced by an augur hawk named Taima before the start of the 2005 season. Taima started leading the team out of the tunnel in September 2006.^[21] Beginning in 2004, the Seahawks introduced their drum line, the Blue Thunder. The group plays at every home game as well as over 100 events in the Seattle community.^[22]

In the 2010 NFL season, the Seahawks made history by making it into the playoffs despite having a 7–9 record. They had the best record in a division full of teams with losing seasons (Seahawks 7–9, Rams 7–9, 49ers 6–10, Cardinals 5–11) and won the decisive season finale against the Rams (not only by overall record, but by division record, as both teams coming into the game had a 3-2 division record). In the playoffs, the Seahawks won in their first game against the defending Super Bowl XLIV champs, the New Orleans Saints, 41–36. The Seahawks made even more history during the game with Marshawn Lynch's 67-yard run, breaking 7 or so tackles, to clinch the victory.^[23] The Seahawks lost to the Bears in their second game, 35–24.

The 2012 NFL Season started with doubt, as the Seahawks lost their season opener against the Arizona Cardinals, after the highly touted Seattle defense gave up a go-ahead score late in the fourth quarter, and rookie quarterback Russell Wilson failed to throw the game winning touchdown after multiple attempts in the red-zone. However, Russell Wilson and the Seahawks went 4–1 in their next five games en route to an 11–5 overall record (their first winning record since 2007). Their 2012 campaign included big wins over the Green Bay Packers, New England Patriots, and San Francisco 49ers. The Seahawks went into the playoffs as the #5 seed and the only team that season to go undefeated at home. In the Wild Card Round, the Seahawks overcame a 14-point deficit to defeat the Washington Redskins. This was the first time since the 1983 Divisional Round that the Seahawks won a playoff game on the road. However, in the 2013 Divisional Round, overcoming a 20 point, fourth quarter deficit wouldn't be enough to defeat the #1 seed Atlanta Falcons. An ill-advised timeout and a defensive breakdown late in the game cost the Seahawks their season, as they lost, 30–28. QB Russell Wilson won the 2012 Pepsi Max Rookie of the Year award.

First Super Bowl championship

In 2013, the Seahawks continued their momentum from the previous season, finishing tied with the Denver Broncos for an NFL-best regular season record of 13-3, while earning the NFC's #1 playoff seed. Their 2013 campaign included big wins over the Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints, and the San Francisco 49ers. Six Seahawks players were named to the Pro Bowl: Quarterback Russell Wilson, center Max Unger, running back Marshawn Lynch, cornerback Richard Sherman, free safety Earl Thomas, and strong safety Kam Chancellor. However, none of them were able to play in the Pro Bowl, as the Seahawks defeated the New Orleans Saints, 23–15, and the San Francisco 49ers, 23–17, in the playoffs to advance to Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos. On February 2, 2014, the Seahawks won their first Super Bowl Championship, defeating Denver 43-8.^[24] The Seahawks' defense performance in 2013 was acclaimed as one of the best in the Super Bowl era.^[25]

Rivalries

San Francisco 49ers

Most recently, the Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers have begun to develop a fierce rivalry, starting with the 49ers hiring of coach Jim Harbaugh for the 2011 NFL season. Harbaugh had coached against Seahawks coach Pete Carroll before in college at Stanford and Southern California, respectively. The 49ers won the first contest between the coaches at the NFL level, then proceeded to win a close game at CenturyLink Field to eliminate the Seahawks from playoff contention. 2012 brought a new season and another Seahawks loss, week 7 on NFL Network's Thursday Night Football at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, as they dropped a 13–6 game where the offense failed to score a touchdown and 49ers quarterback Alex Smith did just enough to survive. Week 16 brought a fever anxiety as the Seahawks and 49ers prepared to face off in primetime on NBC Sunday Night Football. The Seahawks entered the game at 9–5, with back-to-back blowouts in which the team scored more than 50 points in games against the Buffalo Bills and Arizona Cardinals. Quickly, the Seahawks imposed their will with a Marshawn Lynch 24 yard touchdown run, two of quarterback Russell Wilson's touchdown passes and a blocked field goal return had the Seahawks lead at halftime 28–6. The Seahawks continued in the second half, eventually winning 42–13 capped off by Seahawks strong safety Kam Chancellor's hit on 49ers tight end Vernon Davis. The 49ers, however, won the following week, locking up the division title for the second consecutive season. Since rejoining the NFC West, the Seahawks are tied 15–15 versus the 49ers. Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers lost their first 2013 season matchup against their NFC West rivals 29–3, with the help of Marshawn Lynch's three touchdowns, with the fans setting a new Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd roar at 136.6 dB.^[26] However, the Seahawks were defeated 19–17 in their second 2013 game with the 49ers at Candlestick Park. This was largely due to a late game 51 yard run by Frank Gore. The Seahawks have not won in San Francisco since 2008. In the 2013 NFC Championship Game, the Seahawks defeated the 49ers 23 to 17,^[27] thanks to Malcolm Smith's interception, which was tipped by Richard Sherman. This clinched the Seahawks' berth into Super Bowl XLVIII.

St. Louis Rams

The Seahawks also have a rivalry against the St. Louis Rams. One of the more memorable games against the Rams was in Week 6 of the 2006 NFL season. The Seahawks were ineffective for much of the first half. Trailing 21–7, Mike Holmgren blistered the paint in the locker room and a different Seahawks team took the field in the second half. Seattle scored 20 unanswered points to lead 27–21 and looked to have put the game away after a Lofa Tatupu interception late in the game. However, RB Maurice Morris fumbled on the Ram 7-yard line with 2:48 left. A few plays later, Rams QB Marc Bulger threw a 67-yard TD pass to Torry Holt to give the Rams a 28–27 lead with 1:38 remaining. Matt Hasselbeck engineered a final drive from the Seahawks' 17-yard line and led the team to the Rams' 31-yard line. A premature celebration erupted on the Rams' sideline as the Seahawks were called for an illegal formation after Hasselbeck spiked the ball to stop the clock with four seconds left in the game. The Rams believed the Seahawks had committed a false start which would have resulted in a ten-second runoff on the clock that would have ended the game. Instead, the Seahawks were penalized five yards, pushing them back to the 36-yard line. Despite the setback, Josh Brown still kicked a 54-yard field goal to win the game, 30–28. Since 2012 and the arrival of Russell Wilson the Seahawks are 3-2 against the Rams. In the 2013 Week 8 match-up in St. Louis, neither team was able to move much. However, quarterback Russell Wilson threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to receiver Golden Tate. Later, Wilson bombed it deep and Tate jumped over Rams safety Janoris Jenkins to make the catch and run it in for a touchdown. The game was not sealed however until a late Seahawks goal-line stand.

Denver Broncos

From the 1980s to the 2002 league realignment, the Denver Broncos were a major rival for the Seahawks. With John Elway, the Broncos were one of the best teams in the NFL, going 200-124-1^[28] overall, and were 32-18 against the Seahawks. Since 2002, Seattle has won one of three interconference meetings, and the teams met in Super Bowl XLVIII on February 2, 2014, where the Seahawks won 43-8.^[29]

Super Bowl appearances

2013 season: The Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII 43-8 against the Denver Broncos.

2005 season: The Seahawks lost Super Bowl XL 10-21 against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Season	Coach	Location	Stadium	Opponent	Result	Record
2005	Mike Holmgren	Detroit, MI	Ford Field	Pittsburgh Steelers	L, 10-21	15-4
2013	Pete Carroll	East Rutherford, NJ	MetLife Stadium	Denver Broncos	W, 43-8	16-3
Total Super Bowls won:						1

Headquarters and training camps

During the Seahawks' first ten seasons (1976–85), the team's headquarters was at Carillon Point on the shores of Lake Washington. The summer training camps were initially held at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, just southwest of Spokane. When the team's new headquarters across town in Kirkland were completed in 1986, the Seahawks held training camp at home for the next eleven seasons (1986–96), staying in the dormitories of the adjacent Northwest College. In Dennis Erickson's third season as head coach, the team returned to the hotter and more isolated Cheney in 1997, where they held training camp through 2006. In 2007, training camp returned to their Kirkland facility, because of the scheduled China Bowl game that was later canceled. In 2008, the Seahawks held the first three weeks of camp in Kirkland, then moved to the new 19-acre (92,000 sq yd) Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC) on August 18 for the final week of training camp. The new facility, adjacent to Lake Washington in Renton, has four full-size practice fields: three natural grass outdoors and one FieldTurf indoors.^[30]^[31]

Logos and uniforms

Seattle Seahawks uniform combinations, 2002–2011. A green alternate jersey was used, but only for one game of the 2009 season.

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Seattle Seahawks uniform, 1983–2001. The number font was changed to Pro Block in 1994.

When the Seahawks debuted in 1976, the team's logo was a stylized royal blue and forest green osprey's head based on Northwestern tribal art.^[32] The helmet and pants were silver while the home uniforms were royal blue with white, blue and green arm stripes. The road uniform was white with blue and green arm stripes. Black shoes were worn for the first four seasons, one of the few NFL teams that did in the late 1970s. They then changed to white shoes in 1980.^[33]

In 1983, coinciding with the arrival of Chuck Knox as head coach, the uniforms were updated slightly. The striping on the arms now incorporated the Seahawks logo, and the TV numbers moved onto the shoulders. Helmet facemasks changed from gray to blue. Also, the socks went solid blue at the top, and white on bottom.^[34] In the 1985 season, the team wore 10th Anniversary patches on the right side of their pants. It had the Seahawks logo streaking through the number 10. Starting in the 1989 NFL season, jerseys were no longer sand-knit. In 1994, the year of the NFL's 75th Anniversary, the Seahawks changed the style of their numbering to something more suitable for the team; Pro Block from then until 2001. That same year, the Seahawks wore a vintage jersey for select games resembling the 1976–82 uniforms. However the helmet facemasks remained blue. The logos also became sewn on instead of being screen-printed. In 2000, Shaun Alexander's rookie year and Cortez Kennedy's last, the Seattle Seahawks celebrated their 25th Anniversary; the logo was worn on the upper left chest of the jersey. In 2001, the Seahawks switched to the new Reebok uniform system still in their current uniforms, but it would be their last in this uniform after the season ended. Previously, the team's uniforms were made by Wilson, Wilson/Staff, Russell Athletics, Logo Athletics, and Puma.

In March 1, 2002, to coincide with the team moving to the NFC as well as the opening of Seahawks Stadium (which would later be renamed Qwest Field, then CenturyLink Field), both the logo and the uniforms were heavily redesigned. The Wordmark was designed by Mark Verlander and the logo was designed by NFL Properties in-house design team. The colors were modified to a lighter "Seahawks Blue", a darker "Seahawks Navy" and lime green piping. The helmets also were changed from silver to the lighter "Seahawks Blue" color after a fan poll was conducted. Silver would not be seen again until 2012. The logo artwork was also subtly altered, with an arched eyebrow and a forward-facing pupil suggesting a more aggressive-looking bird. At first, the team had planned to wear silver helmets at home and blue helmets on the road, but since NFL rules forbid the use of multiple helmets, the team held the fan poll to decide which color helmet would be worn. The team had usually worn all blue at home and all white on the road since 2003, but late in the 2009 season, the Seahawks wore the white jersey-blue pants combo. The blue jersey and white pants combo has been worn for only one regular season game, the 2005 season opener at the Jacksonville Jaguars, while the white jersey and blue pants combination has not been worn regularly since late in the 2002 season, with the exception of late in the 2009 season. In 2009, the Seahawks once again wore the white jersey and blue pants combination for road games against Minnesota (November 22), St. Louis (November 29), Houston (December 13) and Green Bay (December 27).

The Seahawks wore their home blue jerseys during Super Bowl XL despite being designated as the visitor, since the Pittsburgh Steelers, the designated home team, elected to wear their white jerseys.

Since the Oakland Raiders wore their white jerseys at home for the first time ever in a game against the San Diego Chargers on September 28, 2008, the Seahawks are currently the only NFL team to have never worn their white jerseys at home.^[35]

On September 27, 2009, the Seahawks wore lime green jerseys for the first time, paired with new dark navy blue pants in a game against the Chicago Bears. The jerseys matched their new sister team, the expansion Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer who wear green jerseys with blue pants. On December 6, 2009, the Seahawks wore their Seahawks blue jersey with the new dark navy blue pants for the first time, in a game against the San Francisco 49ers. The Seahawks broke out the same combo two weeks later against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and two weeks after that in the 2009 regular season finale against the Tennessee Titans. In December 2009, then-coach Jim Mora announced that the new lime green jerseys were being retired because the team did not win in them, because he liked the home jerseys better, and added that the home jersey is a better match for the navy pants.^[36] In the same press conference, he stated that the new navy pants "felt better" on players as opposed to the Seahawks blue pants. For the 2010 season, Seattle returned to the traditional all "Seahawks Blue" at home and all white on the road.

On April 3, 2012, Nike, which took over as the official uniform supplier for the league from Reebok, unveiled new uniform and logo designs for the Seahawks for the 2012 season. The new designs incorporate a new accent color, "Wolf Grey", and the main colors are "College Navy" and "Action Green". The uniforms incorporate "feather trims", multiple feathers on the crown of the helmet, twelve feathers printed on the neckline and down each pant leg to represent the "12th Man", referring to the team's fans.^[37] The Seahawks have three different jersey colors: navy blue, white, and an alternate grey jersey. The Seahawks will have three different pants: navy blue with green stripes, gray with navy blue stripes, and white with navy blue stripes. Their new logo replaces the Seahawk blue with gray.

The Seahawks wore their Nike home blue jerseys for the first regular season game on September 16, 2012 against the Dallas Cowboys. The uniform Marshawn Lynch wore in that game is preserved at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.^[38] On September 9, 2012, the Seahawks wore their Nike white away jerseys for the first regular season game against the Arizona Cardinals; on October 14, 2012, with the Carolina Panthers wearing white at home, they wore their blue jerseys with gray pants (and would do so again against the Miami Dolphins seven weeks later); and on December 16, 2012 they wore their Alternate Wolf Grey jerseys for the first time against the Buffalo Bills.

As of week 10 of the 2014 season, the Seahawks are 4-0 all-time in their Wolf Grey jerseys.

Seasons and Overall Record

As of the end of the 2013 season, the Seattle Seahawks have competed in 38 NFL seasons, dating back to their expansion year of 1976. The team has compiled a 293–303 record (305–315 counting the playoffs) for a .492 winning percentage (.492 counting the playoffs). Seattle has reached the playoffs in thirteen separate seasons, including in the 2005 season when they lost Super Bowl XL to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and in the 2013 season when they defeated the Denver Broncos to win Super Bowl XLVIII. In the 2010 season, the Seahawks became the first team in NFL history to earn a spot in the playoffs with a losing record (7–9, .438) in a full season; this was by virtue of winning the division. The Seahawks would go on to defeat the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round, becoming the first team ever to win a playoff game with a losing record. They are also the oldest existing team in the NFL to never have had a tie game, not even in the preseason.

Team records

Players of note

35th Anniversary Team (2010)

The 35th Anniversary team was voted upon by users on Seahawks.com and announced in 2010.^[39]

Seattle Seahawks 35th Anniversary Team (2010)
Unit	Position	Players
Offense	Quarterback	Matt Hasselbeck (QB) 2001–2010
	Running back	Shaun Alexander (RB) 2000–2007 Mack Strong (FB) 1993–2007
	Wide receiver	Steve Largent (WR) 1976–1989 Brian Blades (WR) 1988–1998 Bobby Engram (WR) 2001–2008
	Tight end	John Carlson (TE) 2008–2011
	Offensive line	Walter Jones (T) 1997–2010 Howard Ballard (T) 1994–1998 Steve Hutchinson (G) 2001–2005 Bryan Millard (G) 1984–1991 Robbie Tobeck (C) 2000–2006
Defense	Defensive line	Jacob Green (DE) 1980–1992 Michael Sinclair (DE) 1991–2001 Cortez Kennedy (DT) 1990–2000 Joe Nash (DT) 1982–1996
	Linebacker	Chad Brown (OLB) 1997–2004 Rufus Porter (OLB) 1988–1994 Fredd Young (ILB) 1984–1987 Lofa Tatupu (MLB) 2005–2010
	Cornerback	Marcus Trufant (CB) 2003–2012 Dave Brown (CB) 1976–1986 Shawn Springs (NB) 1997–2003
	Safety	Kenny Easley (SS) 1981–1987 Eugene Robinson (FS) 1985–1995
Special teams	Kicker/Punter	Norm Johnson (K) 1982–1990 Rick Tuten (P) 1991–1997
	Returner	Steve Broussard (KR) 1995–1998 Nate Burleson (PR) 2006–2009
	Coverage	Rufus Porter 1988–1994

Current roster

**Seattle Seahawks roster**
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Quarterbacks (QB) 6 Sam Howell 7 Geno Smith Running backs (RB) 26 Zach Charbonnet 25 Kenny McIntosh 9 Kenneth Walker III Wide receivers (WR) 19 Jake Bobo 1 Jaelon Darden 16 Tyler Lockett 14 DK Metcalf 11 Jaxon Smith-Njigba 82 Cody White 83 Dareke Young Tight ends (TE) 88 AJ Barner 86 Pharaoh Brown 87 Noah Fant 38 Brady Russell		Offensive linemen (OL) 67 Charles Cross LT 64 Christian Haynes RG 65 Michael Jerrell RT 63 Sataoa Laumea LG 72 Abraham Lucas RT 51 Olu Oluwatimi C 61 Jalen Sundell C 70 Laken Tomlinson LG Defensive linemen (DL) 97 Johnathan Hankins DT 55 Dre'Mont Jones DE 94 Mike Morris DE 91 Byron Murphy II DT 90 Jarran Reed NT 98 Roy Robertson-Harris DT 99 Leonard Williams DE		Linebackers (LB) 50 Trevis Gipson OLB 58 Derick Hall OLB 13 Ernest Jones ILB 48 Tyrice Knight ILB 53 Boye Mafe OLB 10 Uchenna Nwosu OLB 52 Patrick O'Connell ILB 18 Josh Ross LB 42 Drake Thomas ILB Defensive backs (DB) 22 Tre Brown CB 8 Coby Bryant FS 30 A. J. Finley SS 2 Rayshawn Jenkins SS 29 Josh Jobe CB 20 Julian Love FS 28 Nehemiah Pritchett CB 32 Jerrick Reed II FS 21 Devon Witherspoon CB 27 Riq Woolen CB Special teams 4 Michael Dickson P 5 Jason Myers K 41 Chris Stoll LS				Practice squad 92 Quinton Bohanna DT 81 Miles Boykin WR 35 Bump Cooper Jr. CB 66 McClendon Curtis RT 15 Jaren Hall QB 36 George Holani RB 98 DeVere Levelston DE 85 Tyler Mabry TE 60 Mike Novitsky C 77 Kenneth Odumegwu OLB (IPP) 39 Ty Okada FS 73 Jason Peters LT (PS/I) 76 Brandon Pili NT 17 John Rhys Plumlee QB 0 Cornell Powell WR 44 Jamie Sheriff OLB (PS/I) 59 Tyreke Smith OLB 37 Damarion Williams CB Reserve 75 Anthony Bradford RG (IR) 23 Artie Burns CB (IR) 74 George Fant RT (IR) 78 Stone Forsythe RT (IR) 49 Joshua Onujiogu OLB (IR) 24 K'Von Wallace SS (IR) 93 Cameron Young NT (IR) As of December 10, 2024. Rookies in italics. 53 active, 7 reserve, 15 practice squad (+3 exempt) Roster Depth chart Transactions

Retired numbers

N°	Player	Position	Tenure	N° Retirem.
Seattle Seahawks retired numbers
12	Fans (12th Man)	Fan	1976–present	1984 ^[40]
71	Walter Jones	OT	1997–2009	2010
80 ¹	Steve Largent	WR	1976–1989	1996
96	Cortez Kennedy	DT	1990–2000	2012 ^[41]

¹ Jerry Rice wore #80 for his 2004 stint with the Seahawks. According to Rice, the team offered him the jersey number, with Largent's permission.^[42]
Several other players and individuals related to the team have been honored by their induction into the Seattle Seahawks Ring of Honor

Pro Football Hall of Famers

Players
Seattle Seahawks Pro Football Hall of Famers
No.	Name	Position	Tenure	Inducted
34	Franco Harris	FB	1984	1990
80	Steve Largent	WR	1976–1989	1995
81	Carl Eller	DE	1979	2004
1	Warren Moon	QB	1997–1998	2006
93	John Randle	DT	2001–2003	2010
80	Jerry Rice	WR	2004	2010
96	Cortez Kennedy	DT	1990–2000	2012
71	Walter Jones	OT	1997–2009	2014
45	Kenny Easley	S	1981–1987	2017
52	Kevin Mawae	C	1994–1997	2019
76	Steve Hutchinson	G	2001–2005	2020
17	Devin Hester	RS	2016	2024
93	Dwight Freeney	DE	2017	2024
Coaches and Executives
Name		Position	Tenure	Inducted
Tom Flores		Head coach	1992–1994	2021
Names in bold spent their entire career with the Seattle Seahawks

Note: Although Mike McCormack served as head coach, president, and general manager for the Seahawks, he is only listed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his contributions as a tackle for the New York Yanks and the Cleveland Browns.

Front office and coaching staff

Current staff

**Seattle Seahawks staff**
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	Front office Owning entity – Paul Allen estate Chairwoman/trustee – Jody Allen Vice chairman – Bert Kolde President – Chuck Arnold President of football operations/general manager – John Schneider Assistant general manager – Nolan Teasley Vice president of football administration – Joey Laine Vice president of player personnel – Trent Kirchner Senior Director of player personnel – Matt Berry Director of college scouting – Aaron Hineline Director of pro personnel – Willie Schneider Assistant director of college scouting – Jason Barnes Assistant director of pro personnel – Armani Perez Head coaches Head coach – Mike Macdonald Assistant head coach – Leslie Frazier Offensive coaches Offensive coordinator – Ryan Grubb Passing game coordinator – Jake Peetz Quarterbacks – Charles London Running backs – Kennedy Polamalu Wide receivers – Frisman Jackson Assistant wide receivers – Tyson Prince Tight ends – Mack Brown Offensive line – Scott Huff Assistant offensive line – Brendan Nugent Offensive assistant/quality control-offensive line – Quinshon Odom Offensive assistant/quality control – Zak Hill			Defensive coaches Defensive coordinator – Aden Durde Defensive line – Justin Hinds Outside linebackers – Chris Partridge Inside linebackers – Kirk Olivadotti Passing game coordinator/defensive backs – Karl Scott Safeties – Jeff Howard Defensive assistant/linebackers – Josh Bynes Defensive quality control – Nick Perry Defensive intern – Rob Caprice Special teams coaches Special teams coordinator – Jay Harbaugh Assistant special teams – Devin Fitzsimmons Strength and conditioning Head strength and conditioning – Ivan Lewis Assistant strength and conditioning – Thomas Garcia Assistant strength and conditioning – Mark Philipp Assistant strength and conditioning – Grant Steen Assistant strength and conditioning – Danny Van Dijk Assistant strength and conditioning – Jamie Yanchar → Coaching staff → Front office → More NFL staffs

Previous head coaches

Sea Gals (cheerleaders)

The Seahawks cheerleaders are called the Sea Gals.^[43] During the off-season, a select performing group from the Sea Gals travel parades and with other NFL Cheerleaders on the road.

12th Man

The 12th Man refers to the fan support of the Seahawks. The 12th Man jersey is popular with supporters of the franchise.^[44]^[45]^[46]^[47] The team's first home stadium, the Kingdome, was one of the loudest and most disruptive environments in the NFL. Opposing teams were known to practice with rock music blaring at full blast to prepare for the often painfully high decibel levels generated at games in the Kingdome.

In 2002, the Seahawks began playing at what is now CenturyLink Field. Every regular season and playoff game at CenturyLink Field since the 2nd week of the 2003 season has been played before a sellout crowd.^[48] Like the Kingdome before it, CenturyLink Field is one of the loudest stadiums in the league. The stadium's partial roof and seating decks trap and amplify the noise and bang it back down to the field. This noise has caused problems for opposing teams, causing them to commit numerous false-start penalties. From 2002 through 2012, there have been 143 false-start penalties on visiting teams in Seattle, second only to the Minnesota Vikings.^[49]

The Seahawks' fans have twice set the Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd noise at a sporting event, first on September 15, 2013, registering 136.6 dB during a game against the San Francisco 49ers^[11] and again on December 2, 2013, during a Monday Night Football game against the New Orleans Saints, with a roar of 137.6 dB.^[12]^[13] As of September 29, 2014, the record of 142.2 dB is held in Arrowhead Stadium by fans of the Kansas City Chiefs.^[50]

Prior to kickoff of each home game, the Seahawks salute their fans by raising a giant 12th man flag at the south end of the stadium. Current and former players, coaches, local celebrities, prominent fans, Seattle-area athletes, and current owner Paul Allen have raised the flag. Earlier, the Seahawks retired the #12 jersey on December 15, 1984 as a tribute to their fans.^[51] Before their Super Bowl win, the Seahawks ran onto the field under a giant 12th Man flag.

In September 1990, Texas A&M filed, and was later granted, a trademark application for the "12th Man" term, based on their continual usage of the term since the 1920s. In January 2006, Texas A&M filed suit against the Seattle Seahawks to protect the trademark and in May 2006, the dispute was settled out of court. In the agreement, Texas A&M licensed the Seahawks to continue using the phrase, in exchange for a licensing fee, public acknowledgement of A&M's trademark when using the term, a restriction in usage of the term to seven states in the Northwest United States, and a prohibition from selling any "12th Man" merchandise.^[52]^[53]^[54]

Team owners

The Nordstrom family: 1976–1988
Ken Behring & Ken Hofmann: 1988–1996
Paul Allen: 1997–present

Radio and television

Seahawks Washington Radio Affiliates

As of 2009^[update], the Seahawks' flagship station is KIRO (AM) 710 kHz – KIRO-FM 97.3 MHz. Games are heard on 47 stations in five western states and Canada. Microsoft holds naming rights for the broadcasts for their search engine under the moniker of the "Bing Radio Network". The current announcers are former Seahawks players Steve Raible (who was the team's color commentator from 1982 to 2003) and Warren Moon. The Raible-Moon regular season pairing has been together since 2004 (during the preseason Moon works for the local television broadcast so the color commentary is split between former Seahawks Paul Moyer, Sam Adkins, and Brock Huard). Pete Gross, who called the games from 1976 until just days before his death from cancer in 1992, is a member of the team's Ring of Honor. Other past announcers include: Steve Thomas 1992 to 1997, Lee Hamilton also known as "Hacksaw" 1998 to 1999, and Brian Davis 2000 to 2003.

Preseason games not shown on national networks were produced by Seahawks Broadcasting and televised by KING-TV, channel 5 (and, in 2008, also on sister station KONG-TV since KING, an NBC affiliate, was committed to the Summer Olympics in China). Seahawks Broadcasting is the Emmy Award Winning in-house production and syndication unit for the Seattle Seahawks. Curt Menefee (the host of Fox NFL Sunday) has been the Seahawks TV voice since the 2009 preseason. Since the 2012 season, KCPQ-TV, which airs most of the Seahawks regular season games (as the Seattle-Tacoma area's Fox affiliate), is the television partner for the team and has replaced KING 5 as broadcaster for preseason games, while simulcasts of any Seahawks games on ESPN's Monday Night Football or NFL Network's Thursday Night Football airs on either KONG-TV or KZJO.^[55] In addition, any Saturday or Sunday afternoon games broadcast by CBS (with the Seahawks hosting an AFC opponent) will air on local CBS affiliate KIRO-TV.

Radio affiliates

Seahawks Radio Affiliates

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Washington

City	Call Sign	Frequency
Aberdeen	KWOK	1490 kHz
Bellingham	KPUG-AM	1170 kHz
Centralia	KMNT	104.3 MHz
Colfax	KMAX (AM)	840 kHz
Colville	KCRK-FM	92.1 MHz
Ellensburg	KXLE (AM)	1240 kHz
Forks	KRKZ (AM)	1490 kHz
Grand Coulee	KEYG-FM	98.5 MHz
Longview	KEDO (AM)	1400 kHz
Moses Lake	KBSN	1470 kHz
Mount Vernon	KAPS (AM)	660 kHz
Olympia	KGY (AM)	1240 kHz
Olympia	KXXO	96.9 MHz
Omak	KNCW-FM	92.7 MHz
Port Angeles	KONP (AM)	1450 kHz
Seattle (Flagship station)	KIRO (AM)	710 kHz
Seattle (Flagship station)	KIRO-FM	97.3 MHz
Shelton	KMAS (AM)	1030 kHz
Spokane	KHTQ	94.5 MHz
Tri-Cities	KONA (AM)	610 kHz
Walla Walla	KUJ (AM)	1420 kHz
Wenatchee	KPQ (AM)	560 kHz
Yakima	KIT (AM)	1280 kHz
Yakima	KIT-FM	99.3 MHz

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Alaska

City	Call Sign	Frequency
Anchorage	KOAN	1080 kHz
Anchorage	KZND-FM	94.7 MHz
Cordova	KLAM (AM)	1450 kHz
Juneau	KINY	800 kHz
Kodiak	KVOK (AM)	560 kHz

Idaho

City	Call Sign	Frequency
Boise	KTIK (AM)	1350 kHz
Boise	KTIK-FM	93.1 MHz
Lewiston	KCLK (AM)	1430 kHz
Pocatello	KSEI	930 kHz
St. Maries	KOFE	1240 kHz

Montana

City	Call Sign	Frequency
Missoula	KGRZ	1450 kHz
Missoula	KYLT	1340 kHz