Scene: a sports bar, partially empty. Two dudes are sitting at a counter, separated by a single seat. They exchange a casual glance… Dude the First: So, Free Agency starts tomorrow. Kinda exciting, amirite? Dude the Second: Ha! No. Dude the First: ? Dude the Second: Imma Seahawks fan. Dude the First: Oh no, I’m … Continue reading Weird Free Agency: Wideouts
As the sun rose, John Schneider trembled with anger and stress. Paul Allen, normally cryptic but soft-spoken, had gone as far as he ever had to make it plain and as clear that Schneiz was on ice, and it was thin. Day Two of the Draft was Seattle's General Manager's favorite fucking day of the … Continue reading A Factual Oral History of April 26, 2018
The WNBA draft was held on the evening of Wednesday, April 10 and, unsurprisingly, coverage of it was pretty meager. To a degree, this is understandable: between the beginning of the MLB regular season and the start of both the NHL and NBA playoffs, the demand for the attention of sports fans is already quite … Continue reading When it Pains, it Storms
On April 27, 2017, Sean Payton awoke with a clear and direct plan: to not do what he had done before so many times. We should recognize two absurdities in this sentence. The first, of course, is that no coach, including Sean Payton, likely has exclusive control over who an NFL team drafts, so any … Continue reading A Conceptual Mock Draft for the Seattle Seahawks
In what should come as news to precisely no one reading this, Ian Rapoport has reported that Frank Clark is threatening to hold out. In itself, this comes as a bit of a surprise. For while it was only last week that the Seahawks used the 2019 franchise tag on their breakout DE1, Clark told … Continue reading To Pay or Not to Pay: Breaking Down the Frank Clark Situation
The thing about a reckoning is that it is, or is supposed to be, cathartic. In these moments of reckoning, we calculate -- conceive -- a trajectory, and watch it chart its own course through nebulous zeniths and nadirs, transforming and undulating until, at its end, it concludes in a great becoming. We do not … Continue reading The Catharsis of Fandom or The Team We Are Stuck With
The best legends we have are a blessing and a curse, for as much as they teach us to revere our heroes, so do they ignore the dreaded thereafter, when those heroes transform back into regular men and women, capable of acts of idiocy, disappointing all of our notions of greatness; a bitter instruction that … Continue reading A Spectacular Loss
