#219 Nfc-hawks

Certainly there’s been more than enough hyperbole galore about this but what the heck, it’s not every day a regional football team wins a slot in the Superbowl. So let me just say first, Go C-Hawks. You’re A-Hawks to me. Or let’s just shorten the whole uncomfortably long phrase NFC Champion C-hawks to NFC-Hawks. Of course the jokes are flying in. What was most important in the NFC championship game, the full back or the running back? The answer, of course, was the hassle-back. And hassle the Carolina panthers Matt did. Or, that the reason our defense was so strong is because we had a big Lofa on it. Did you see that shot he took though? The other guy was sent out of the game with a concussion, or as one cruel wag put it Goings Goings gone. But Lofa Tatupu played on, even though it turns out he was concussed as well. Forget the con, he kept the other team cussing for the rest of the game, I’ll tell you that.
Weird though, one of the national commentators, apparently without irony, said at one point in the blowout: “The national media hasn’t been giving the Seahawks the respect they deserve.” Duh! Especially when it was the guy who was squeezing out this pithy remark that was being pithy the previous week about those same Seahawks. He was the one who wasn’t giving them respect and said Carolina ought to have field day cause Seattle never do well against a good quarterback and Delhomme was as good as they come. Well apparently he’s as good as they go too. As in, Go home Delhomme.
Shaun Alexander ran his way into vindication as well. The national commentators had said how he didn’t step up in playoff games. Given that the previous week—and only playoff game so far this season—was a week that he got a concussion early in the first quarter and that with the bye the week before that and the layoff the week before that in a game the Seahawks didn’t need to win, he’d had like a month off, it was only natural it would take him a couple of plays to work the kinks out. But out they worked and in classic strategy style the threat of Shaun was as effective as a runner on first in splitting the attention of the defense. Why don’t football players get removed from the game after a foul—or five—by the way?
Ultimately the outcome of the game depended less on Hasselbeck and the Seahawks than on the power of feng shui and color. Tattoo Blue versus Feeble Teal. How could we lose? Teal is not a color for football. Teal is a color for lawn bowling, or croquet. The smartest move the Seahawks made on the road to the payoffs was to change their colors. That and stick with the guy that’s making my home grin.
America, ya gotta love it.