Seattle Seahawks | |||||
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Established June 4, 1974[1][2] First season: 1976 Play in Lumen Field Seattle, Washington Headquartered in the Virginia Mason Athletic Center Renton, Washington[3] | |||||
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National Football League (1976–present)
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Team colors | College navy, action green, wolf grey[4][5][6] | ||||
Mascot | Blitz, Boom, Taima the Hawk (live Augur buzzard) | ||||
Website | seahawks.com | ||||
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Owner(s) | The Paul Allen Estate[7] | ||||
Chairman | Jody Allen | ||||
General manager | John Schneider | ||||
President | Chuck Arnold[8] | ||||
Head coach | Mike Macdonald | ||||
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League championships (1) | |||||
Conference championships (3) | |||||
Division championships (11) | |||||
Playoff appearances (20) | |||||
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The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West, which they rejoined in 2002 as part of a conference realignment. The club entered the NFL as an expansion team in 1976 in the NFC. From 1977 to 2001, Seattle was assigned to the American Football Conference (AFC) West. They have played their home games at Lumen Field in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood since 2002, having previously played home games in the Kingdome (1976–1999) and Husky Stadium (1994 and 2000–2001).[a]
Seahawks fans have been referred to collectively as the "12s" (formerly the "12th Man"),[11][12][13] or the "12th Fan".[14][15][16][17][18] The team's fans twice set the Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd noise at a sporting event within the span of a few months, first registering 136.6 decibels during a game against the San Francisco 49ers in September 2013,[19] and later registering 137.6 dB during a Monday Night Football game against the New Orleans Saints that December.[20][21] As the only NFL team based in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, the Seahawks attract support from a wide geographical area that includes parts of the U.S. states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Utah, as well as the Canadian province of British Columbia.[22]
The Seahawks have won 11 division titles and three conference championships, and are the only team to have played in both the AFC and NFC Championship Games. They have reached three Super Bowls, losing 21–10 to the Pittsburgh Steelers at Super Bowl XL, defeating the Denver Broncos 43–8 for their first championship at Super Bowl XLVIII, and losing 28–24 to the New England Patriots at Super Bowl XLIX. Players Kenny Easley, Walter Jones, Steve Hutchinson, Cortez Kennedy, and Steve Largent have been voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame primarily or wholly for their accomplishments as Seahawks. In addition, players Dave Brown, Jacob Green, Dave Krieg, Curt Warner, Jim Zorn, Matt Hasselbeck and Shaun Alexander have been inducted into the Seahawks Ring of Honor, along with head coaches Chuck Knox, and Mike Holmgren, radio announcer Pete Gross, and franchise owner Paul Allen.
The alternate look shows the team's primary Seahawks logo, which is seen at a profile angle, facing forward. It maintains the same color scheme — College Navy, Wolf Grey and Action Green — that Seattle unveiled in 2012 when the NFL introduced Nike as the League's new uniform provider.
Nike unveils the new NFL uniform design in New York, and Kam Chancellor represents the Seahawks in the fashion show. Along with the new uniform, the Seahawks unveil a new tweaked logo that freshens up the team colors. The new team colors are college navy, action green and wolf grey.
What he did: The Seahawks' first-round draft choice in 1984 out of Southern Illinois, Terry Taylor started 52 games at cornerback through the 1988 season and then returned in 1994 to start three more in an injury-depleted secondary. Taylor's 16 career interceptions for the Seahawks rank No. 10 on the franchise's all-time list and he returned two for touchdowns. He also appeared in the Seahawks' infamous Locker Room Rock video in 1985.
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