6 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT SETTLE SEAHAWKS
1. The Seahawks Almost Part of the WFL
After the AFL-NFL merger, the league still wanted to expand. Pressured by the WFL rival, (World Football League) they rushed to find teams before WFL got it first. Cities such as Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix and Honolulu were in contention for both leagues. The WFL actually chose to give the teams to Honolulu and Memphis, and Seattle was given the right to join the NFL. Tampa Bay was given one of the two NFL expansion areas previously. The WFL collapsed just two years later.
2. 12th Man Created an Earthquake
Seahawks Nuts gesture the 12th Man flag to celebrate Seattle Seahawks triumph in Super Bowl XLVII during a procession on February 5, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. Seahawks nuts have twice set the world record for the loudest crowd noise at a sporting event. They're also responsible for causing the earth to actually shake. The Marshawn Lynch 67-yard touchdown run in the 2011 playoffs had a recorded magnitude fair between 1 and 3. Seismic detectors have actually been installed at CenturyLink Field to watch farther earthquakes caused by the 12th Man.
3. Seahawks First Ever Draft Pick Could Have Been Their Best
In recent whiles, the Seahawks have plant head resembling as Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman and Doug Baldwin deep into the draft. Notwithstanding their first ever pick, Defensive Tackle Steve Niehaus, was on the verge of stardom. His beginner age he posted9.5 sacks, still to this date a band record. He also was the Protective Beginner of the Age that season, and on pace to dominate the league for ages to come. Unfortunately he'd redoing injuries to his arm that forced him to retire unseasonably on in his career.
4. The Seahawks Awake Are a Hockey Group
With the NHL in the middle of an expansion, Seattle was in talks to acquire their professional hockey team. They had it all the way back in 1933 when they were called ... the Seattle Seahawks. They did not play in the NHL, but instead prepared for the Pacific Coast Hockey League. When the city was given a soccer team, they had a competition to name a team. The Seahawks were then selected over other names such as the Mariners, Evergreens, and Sockeyes.
5. The logo was derived from the Kwaka Nation of Kwaka’akwakw
The founders of the Seattle Seahawks logo were inspired by the traditional arts of the Northwest, especially the mask of the Kwakwaka’wakw tribe. It is the type of mask worn by the nation at a winter event called the Tasula. The first artwork is currently housed in the Burke Museum in Washington, where instead of the Seahawk, it is called the "Thunderbird".
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