[62] Before their Super Bowl win, the Seahawks ran onto the field under a giant 12th Man flag. The downside is you don’t know who you’d be playing. 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. The team has compiled a 355–336-1 record (17–17 in the playoffs) for a .514 winning percentage (.500 in the playoffs). Hello, I’m Andrew Hammond, and I am new to the Pacific Northwest area. Los Angeles Rams at San Francisco 49ers (Saturday): The scoreboard watching begins on Saturday night with the Rams and 49ers going at it in Santa Clara. 1 seed to the No. With John Elway, the Broncos were one of the best teams in the NFL, going 200–124–1[48] overall, and were 32–18 against the Seahawks. 3 seed if they lose one of their last two games and the NFC North champion were to grab the No.
As per one of the agreed parts of the 1970 AFL–NFL merger, the NFL began planning to expand from 26 to 28 teams.
The Seahawks would return to the playoffs in both 2015 and 2016, but despite winning the Wild Card game in both years they failed to win either Divisional round game on the road. In 2019, the Seattle Seahawks lost to the Green Bay Packers in the Divisional Round. The road jersey was white, with white, blue and green sleeve stripes and had blue numerals and names.
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. After the run, the fans reacted so loudly that a small earthquake (a bit above 2 on the Richter Scale) was recorded by seismic equipment around Seattle[42] and was nicknamed the "Beast Quake". [67], 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[17] and again on December 2, 2013, during a Monday Night Football game against the New Orleans Saints, with a roar of 137.6 dB. The NFL threatened Behring with fining him $500,000 a day if he did not move the team's operations back to Seattle;[33] with this, Behring and Hoffman sold the team to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 1997 for $200 million. The Seahawks wore their Nike home blue jerseys for the first regular season game on September 16, 2012 against the Dallas Cowboys.
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. If the Seahawks were to drop from the No. The 2017 iteration of the team, however, missed the playoffs for the first time in six years, as injuries to their core players coupled with disappointing acquisitions of RB Eddie Lacy and K Blair Walsh failed them in a competitive NFC. Gordon remains suspended indefinitely. The team's first home stadium, the Kingdome, was one of the loudest and most disruptive environments in the NFL. Seattle is still playing a lot of zone coverages with a single safety in the deep middle. The team would cut ties with most of the remaining players that had been part of their meteoric rise and turnover both their Offensive and Defensive coaching staff in 2018, and an influx of young talent helped propel the team to a 10–6 record and another playoff berth that would ultimately end in a loss in the Wild Card game.