Category Archives: Sports

This year’s Super Bowl quiz consists of one question:

Which team will win Super Bowl XLVI?
A. New England Patriots
B. New York Giants
C. I don’t know
D. It doesn’t matter

Let’s try to find the answer.
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Here’s my request on this once-a-century date consisting entirely of elevens. Instead of relying on the 12th Man to make life difficult for the fearsome Baltimore Ravens when they battle us in Seattle on Sunday, how about if the Seahawks play like they have the allotted eleven players on the field for the whole game? In stumbling to a 2 and 6 mark so far this season, the Seahawks have seemed outnumbered at times. How else to account for a lack of offense in the first half all year, big yardage given up by the special teams in the Cincinnati game, and a takeway/giveway count of -5? There’s no penalty in the rule book for playing like ten; if there were, we might get one.

The idea of the 12th Man didn’t originate in Seattle, but the Seahawks benefit from it. When they are really into making noise, Seahawks fans (the 12th Man) are loud enough to totally disrupt the visiting team’s snap count, rhythm, and communication. In past seasons Century Link (formerly Qwest) Field has been one of the NFL’s most difficult venues to play in—let alone win in—for road teams. But not this year (so far anyway) as the Seahawks are 1 and 2 at home. Simple plan for Sunday: suit everyone up who is healthy, substitute a lot, and get all eleven players involved in every play beginning with the opening kickoff. That’s what the Ravens will be doing.

The Seattle Seahawks accomplished an unusual feat today. In beating the New York Giants 36-25 at the Meadowlands, they won a game played in the Eastern Time Zone. Even better it was the early game, starting at 10:00 AM on the West Coast. I don’t have a statistics staff to research how rare an East Coast win is for the Seahawks. Trust me, they don’t happen often and are worth a blog post.
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I spend hours watching the MLB playoffs and the World Series. October is the time of year when I’m just getting back into TV after a summer hiatus. The best part of the postseason so far—the Yankees have already been eliminated! That’s right, the rest of the month is going to be Yankee free.
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The Seattle Mariners, the media, and the public have honored long-time baseball announcer Dave Niehaus in a variety of ways since he passed away from a heart attack last November. But a special tribute observed in the radio booth during last night’s season opener against the A’s in Oakland was the shortest and perhaps the most fitting.
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Normally the Mud Bay blog refrains from predicting the outcome of sporting events. For starters, it is too easy to be proved wrong. Plus a prediction should be backed by a wager to carry any weight. Online gambling is illegal in Washington. So my prediction is caveated with the subjunctive. This post is about the way I would bet on the Super Bowl if I didn’t live in a nanny state.
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Golf fans on the go who used to depend on tournament tweets to keep updated have a better option this year. They can catch PGA Tour events live on the radio. All they need to do is subscribe to SiriusXM satellite radio and tune to Channel 209, the PGA Tour Network.
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Tonight the Oregon Ducks battle the Auburn Tigers in the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game. The contest is the 35th and, as you might guess from the title, last game in a college football bowl schedule that began December 18th. So far I have seen parts of two bowls. Clearly I should have watched more games because my name recognition of the various bowl sponsors wouldn’t receive a passing grade.
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The message—8—was short, simple, and completely understandable given the context. That’s what former Seahawk Dave Wyman texted to talk-show host Dori Monson after attending Seahawks coach Pete Carroll’s news conference today. As Monson helpfully explained before passing it on during his radio show, “Dave is a man of few words.”
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