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Game Day Open Thread - Week 14: Arizona at Seattle

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December 9, 1:00pm Pacific
Qwest Field
FOX

Not much to wonder about here. If we win, the Seahawks capture their fourth straight NFC West title. No questions asked.

If we lose, then the open sore remains festering until the end of the season. We grip the armrests of our favorite chairs and wonder why we couldn't have wrapped this up sooner. We agonize about Kurt Warner and, for God's sake, THE EDGE (not the U2 guitarist) stealing our thunder from underneath us while Boldin and Fitzgerald were 50% at best. Then, as is usual, our traditional civic self-doubt creeps in. We go fumbling in the dark for our identity but we can't find it for another five weeks, when we just by chance happen to locate it underneath the loveseat after we finally get around to cleaning our apartments after the big New Year's Eve party we had. And instead of maintaining the momentum of a rather incredible 5-game winning streak, we plunge into the depths of despair, from which we cannot emerge until the Mariners enter another spring training with absolutely nothing to show from the winter meetings, and we just resolve to spend another year drinking microbrews into oblivion and continuing a string of one-night stands with women we'll never see again until they've married promising lawyers and want to rub it in our faces.

So as you can see this is a big game.

Commentary here and at our new Cardinals blog, Revenge of the Birds.

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good rant
Didn't you have one last year about how the Cards were a wussy mascot? It went something like "Cardinals are songbirds. What's the worst they can do to you, write a strongly-worded press release?"
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 1:35 AM PST   0 recs

Thank you.
I did indeed write that. Although this year's Cards seem like they could live up to the promise of years past. Let's just hope we can delay it a little.

My main contention with the Cards last year is that they re-did their mascot's beak and eyebrows so it looked more threatening. Ahem -- which team from the Pacific Northwest did that first? Oh, yes, that's right!

Say what you will. Our mascot will not be out-scowled.

--Shrug

by Shrug on Dec 9, 2007 3:06 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Just for clarification...
If the Hawks win, can I still drink myself into oblivion?
-aaron c.

by acblue on Dec 9, 2007 2:52 AM PST   0 recs

Yes.
You may drink yourself silly. It just won't be for the same reason Bukowski drank himself silly. Or why Soviet Russia did.
--Shrug

by Shrug on Dec 9, 2007 3:08 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Awesome.
Although, like most former Greeners, I DO like to align myself with beats and socialists.
-aaron c.

by acblue on Dec 9, 2007 3:41 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I wouldn't describe a drunk Bukowski as silly.
Maybe drank himself "surly", or "surlier".

Speaking of which, I have to stop having nights like:

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And yet, I wake up after a few hours and feel great. I guess I haven't entirely shed the "Top Fuel Dragster" label from my youth. Then again, I drank ,,,,,,,,, when i tripped to Seattle and felt like George Foreman had been working on my kidneys all night the next day.

Am I still typing? Oh, there comes the hangover, ah yes...

by John Morgan on Dec 9, 2007 8:35 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Oof, I hear ya
I'm doing surprisingly well considering my 10+ PBR intake last night.  Especially since I only slept for about 6 hours.  

Now I've got that weird thing, where you wake up after a night of drinking and you're all disoriented, but you can't really sleep.  Does that happen to everyone else?  It doesn't happen to me all the time, just once in a while.  Odd odd odd.

Let's go Hawks!

by jimmimoose on Dec 9, 2007 8:59 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Last night was the company Christmas party.
Note to self: "Just because I can" is never a good reason for ordering a Long Island iced tea.
--Shrug

by Shrug on Dec 9, 2007 11:47 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

How adult.
Any hot gossip? Is it gauche to show up with an iPod?

by John Morgan on Dec 9, 2007 11:51 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Nah
The guy who took the team photos did so on a Mac.

Two ice sculptures. Aw yeah.

--Shrug

by Shrug on Dec 9, 2007 5:42 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

I always woke up incredily refreshed
after a night of drinking. I would hit the bed at like 3 or 4am, grab a pint of water just beforehand and I would end up waking up at around 9am totally awake and feeling great.

Either that or I would get the Hangover for Hell. Kinda hit or miss.

by Matthew on Dec 9, 2007 12:12 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Since you put it that way
I hope we win.
"It's fun and difficult to swim in stormy river with an exotic apparatus, as inflatable ladies slip out of hands."

by Billy Everyteen on Dec 9, 2007 5:13 AM PST   0 recs

yup
and the T-shirt looked pretty cool, hope to see the guys wearing it after the game.
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 9:37 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Is it snowing in Seattle
because I woke up with about 4 inches this morning
V. 1.0, mutherf***er, know what I'm sayin'?

by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 9, 2007 10:50 AM PST   0 recs

Just a few flurries at my house.
None of it collected on the ground and it's stopped.
"I think we know who the 'Hawks true rival is"-John Morgan

by Coach Owens on Dec 9, 2007 11:02 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Espn Lies Arizona is not a contender
V. 1.0, mutherf***er, know what I'm sayin'?

by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 9, 2007 12:06 PM PST   0 recs

hey
that's pretty sweet.
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 1:03 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Dammit
Looking forward to getting home to watch a bit of non-Hawks ball before the main event, and I get Oakland and Green Bay.  Bad for a couple reasons: (1) Oakland is miserable; and (2) I hate rooting for Oakland.

Also, please go Philly.

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 12:18 PM PST   0 recs

Houston beating Tampa Bay 28-14
looks like that will hold up, which is big for the 3 seed.
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 12:37 PM PST   0 recs

Hey!
Cowboys are losing! #2 seed perhaps?
Brian Russell is worse than you.

by SSreporters on Dec 9, 2007 12:57 PM PST   0 recs

Lofa best MLB in NFL?
So says Tim Ryan.  I like the sentiment, but consider the source.

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 1:03 PM PST   0 recs

Larry Fitzgerald in, Anquan Boldin out
1 out is better then none. Wasn't it Boldin who always seemed to have big games against us?
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 1:04 PM PST   0 recs

but Fitzgerald is limited
which is good.
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:06 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Piss
There goes Edgerrin.
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 1:09 PM PST   0 recs

Supplementation?
Seriously?

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:10 PM PST   0 recs

NEON DEON!!!!!!
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:11 PM PST   0 recs

Not that it matters
but somebody on the d-line flat got tackled on the pass rush on that play.

Nice pick.

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:11 PM PST   0 recs

For the record
Russell got dragged for five yards by James on the off tackle left run in that series.  Just sayin'.

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 1:12 PM PST   0 recs

Mike seems to be learning?
Morris and Weaver in the split backs?  Mo gets first carry.

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:16 PM PST   0 recs

dammit Shaun
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:17 PM PST   0 recs

Alexander falls over, again
sad
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 1:18 PM PST   0 recs

If there's ever a spot to give Shaun the ball
That's probably it, not sure I love that specific playcall, but I can't fault Mike for handing him the ball there if he's not just going to flat bench the dude.

That said, I hate hate hate running the ball there.

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:18 PM PST   0 recs

Gray
Got worked on that 2nd down SA rush.  Not all Shaun's fault.  Hope John's question re this being Gray's retirement party doesn't get answered in the positive.

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 1:19 PM PST   0 recs

Yeah.
Even the announcers noticed...

by PositivePaul on Dec 9, 2007 1:22 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

It looked worse
Because after the middle got filled, Shaun tried to bounce to the outside, which only exposes his lack of speed.

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:20 PM PST   0 recs

Russell with a tackle
at the line??
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:24 PM PST   0 recs

Kerney
boo ya

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 1:24 PM PST   0 recs

Burleson
Looked really tentative on that return.  Hit the seam, Burly.

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 1:26 PM PST   0 recs

The seam
vanished, he was about to burst into it, but it got filled and then he tried to dance.  Made the best with what he could.

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:27 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Weaver and Shaun on those last two plays
An interesting contrast...

Shaun doesn't get moving that fast 5 yards downfield

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:30 PM PST   0 recs

wow, that could of been bad
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:32 PM PST   0 recs

62
If it's a Seahawk false start at home, look no further than Chris Gray.  
Sports and Bremertonians. Because we can.

by wackomann on Dec 9, 2007 1:35 PM PST   0 recs

bad spot
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:35 PM PST   0 recs

don't call...
...no handoff to Shaun Alexander on fourth down, please.  
Sports and Bremertonians. Because we can.

by wackomann on Dec 9, 2007 1:37 PM PST   0 recs

SHAUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:37 PM PST   0 recs

WHAT IN TARNATION
That's not supposed to happen.

Which is why that's a shitty play call, but umm.. yay?

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:37 PM PST   0 recs

NATE!!
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:38 PM PST   0 recs

i was a bit wrong on fourth down
Turns out a handoff to Shaun Alexander was quite good.  Not sure how many times you can go to that well again, but whatever.  

First quarter over.  Wish it was 14-0, but this will do so far.  

Sports and Bremertonians. Because we can.

by wackomann on Dec 9, 2007 1:42 PM PST   0 recs

"he had the range, but came up short"
oh rly?

Also Marshall is psychic, which is nice

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:48 PM PST   0 recs

NO GOOD!!!
good field position.
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:48 PM PST   0 recs

hmm
Might not be a Pro Bowl year for Neil Rackers.  
Sports and Bremertonians. Because we can.

by wackomann on Dec 9, 2007 1:49 PM PST   0 recs

Eli Manning
is unstoppable?  Huh.

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 1:49 PM PST   0 recs

Unstopable, Eli manning is....
There are so many things wrong with that statement. Both syntactic and semantic...

by man on soap box on Dec 9, 2007 1:50 PM PST   0 recs

I love that ad
UNSTOPPABLE
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 1:51 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

"Tim" Hasselbeck
Fuck, they switched Hasselbecks on us, we're fucked.

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:51 PM PST   0 recs

DEION BRANCH
I was wondering where he was
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 1:52 PM PST   0 recs

Oh, Bobby!
I love that guy.

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 1:55 PM PST   0 recs

B-fucking Easy!!! 4 pro bowl!!
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 1:55 PM PST   0 recs

WOW
Matt owes Bobby a holiday basket with some nice sausage after that one.  (and maybe the DB who missed it)

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:55 PM PST   0 recs

Christ
Why does anybody ever bite on Patriot play action?  Even if they do run the ball, they're not going to kill you with it.
DAMNIT!

by TIF on Dec 9, 2007 1:57 PM PST   0 recs

Why or why do our tiny dbs
Think they can knock somebody over with a shoulder?

by Dids on Dec 9, 2007 1:59 PM PST   0 recs

I find this lack of pressure....
....disturbing...
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 1:59 PM PST   0 recs

Let's rush 5.
I like it when we rush 5.

by John Morgan on Dec 9, 2007 2:00 PM PST   0 recs

oh there we go
Go Patrick
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 2:01 PM PST   0 recs

KERNEY!!!!!!!
Josh Brown is better than you. The Rest of the team is worse.

by MFAN on Dec 9, 2007 2:01 PM PST   0 recs

kerney
I remember when the Seahawks spent a ton of money on Grant Wistrom, except it didn't work out.  That seems to be less the case this season with Kerney, and that's a good thing.  
Sports and Bremertonians. Because we can.

by wackomann on Dec 9, 2007 2:01 PM PST   0 recs

it was great that Wistrom had a motor
But comparing Kerney to Wistrom is like night and day.
formerly captain morgan

by Will Kier on Dec 9, 2007 2:02 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

only comparison
just that they were both d-liners for whom the Seahawks blatantly overpaid.  
Sports and Bremertonians. Because we can.

by wackomann on Dec 9, 2007 2:06 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Wow
Hawks got away with what looked like a clip at the beginning of that return.

by jeager on Dec 9, 2007 2:02 PM PST   0 recs

Wow, Ellis Hobbs
Just let a Fullback get behind him for a touchdown pass.  14-10 Patriots.
DAMNIT!