Seattle Seahawks Tickets : Seattle Seahawks Has Reached The Playoffs In Ten Separate Seasons

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle

, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League.

The team, along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, joined the NFL in 1976 as expansion teams. Seattle is the only team to have played in both the AFC (American Football Conference) and NFC Championship Games. The Seahawks' first and only Super Bowl appearance was in 2006 for Super Bowl XL. In 2010, they became the first NFL team to win a division title with a record below .500 .

Seattle has won seven division titles in their franchise history: the 1988 and 1999 AFC West titles, and the 2004-2007, 2010 NFC West titles. They won the NFC Championship Game in 2005, and went on to lose in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Before 2005, Seattle had the longest drought of playoff victories of any NFL team, dating back to the 1984 season. That drought was ended with a 20/10 win over the Washington Redskins in the 2005 playoffs. The all time Seahawks playoff record is 7-10.

As a tribute to the raucous fans that made the Kingdome the loudest stadium in the NFL the Seahawks retired the number 12 on December 15, 1984. Since then #12 Jerseys have been sold by the team and worn by Seahawk fans, often with the name "Fan" on the back. The Seahawks also have a ceremony before each home game where a flag bearing the #12 is raised by a prominent individual.

In the 2005 season the fans were again making a difference in games and were recognized with the presentation of a special game ball for their efforts in a game against the New York Giants, a game in which the Giants committed 11 false start penalties in large part because of the crowd noise.

The team's use of the phrase "12th Man" was in a legal limbo for a while between the 2005 and 2006 season when Texas A&M University sued the team for trademark infringement. Before going to trial, both parties settled out of court with Seattle agreeing to acknowledge ownership rights to the 12th Man slogan to A&M. In return the Seahawks were allowed to continue to use the phrase.

Starting in the 1998 season, Blitz has been the Seahawks' official mascot. In the 2003 and 2004 seasons, a hawk named Faith would fly around the stadium just before the team came out of the tunnel. However, because of her relative small size and an inability to be trained to lead the team out of a tunnel, Faith was replaced by an augur hawk named Taima before the start of the 2005 season. Taima started leading the team out of the tunnel in September 2006.

During the Seahawks' first ten seasons , the team's headquarters was at Carillon Point on the shores of Lake Washington. The summer training camps were initially held at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, just southwest of Spokane. When the team's new headquarters across town in Kirkland were completed in 1986, the Seahawks held training camp at home for the next eleven seasons , staying in the dormitories of the adjacent Northwest College.

In Dennis Erickson's third season as head coach, the team returned to the hotter and more isolated Cheney in 1997, where they held training camp through 2006. In 2007, training camp returned to their Kirkland facility, because of the scheduled China Bowl game that was later canceled.

In 2008, the Seahawks held the first three weeks of camp in Kirkland, then moved to the new 19-acre (77,000 m2) Virginia Mason Athletic Center on August 18 for the final week of training camp. The new facility, adjacent to Lake Washington in Renton titled the Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC). It has four full-size practice fields: three natural grass outdoors and a one FieldTurf indoors.

As of 2009, the Seattle Seahawks have competed in 33 NFL seasons, dating back to their expansion year of 1976. The team has compiled a 250/266 record for a .484 winning percentage (.482 counting the playoffs). Seattle has reached the playoffs in ten separate seasons, including losing Super Bowl XL in 2006 against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

by: Amanda Harrison

POST COMMENT

Deep Tissue Massage: Ease Aches Faster Life Coaching Help For Your Goals Deep Tissue Massage Relieve Aches Faster How to Increase your bodies Growth Hormones to build muscle Fast! Russian Method To Build Muscle Fast Private Finance Coaching Archangel Chamuel Teaches Us How To Connect To God Through Awakening The Kundalini - The Holy Spirit Vacheron Constantin, The Most luxurious Maltese Cross A way to Deal With Migraines and Cluster Headaches Migraine Without Headache - A way to Tell A Simple Introduction to Migraine Headaches Brain Biofeedback For Migraine Headaches - Is Neurofeedback Useful? How to Use Aromatherapy to Stop a Migraine Headache