FOR THE first 27 years of its existence, Seattle’s professional football team made the playoffs a grand total of five times. That was two fewer than their tally of last-place AFC West finishes during that span. For the first 29 years, the...
ON THE night of Sept. 7, San Francisco snagged a season-opening victory over Seattle at Lumen Field. Only four months later, against the same hated division rival, inside the same stadium, the Seahawks won their first divisional round playoff...
THE SEAHAWKS were considered a middling team by so-called experts after having started the season with only three wins in five weeks. But, doubted and daring and powered by the Dark Side, slowly and surely and without much advance warning, the...
ONG BEFORE Canaan Smith-njigba became a professional baseball player and Jaxon Smith-njigba became a professional football player, the two brothers grew up in Rockwall, Texas. Their father, Maada, loved to “knock out all the sports in one day,”...
ETE CARROLL walked to the middle of the Metlife Stadium locker room and called his players into a circle, just as he had done after each of the Seahawks’ previous 15 wins of the season. Those on the perimeter of the cocoon couldn’t see him, but...