1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: This is Seahawks Stories fiftieth season edition presented by Emerald 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: City Athletics. 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of Seahawks Stories, this being the 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: fiftieth season. I'm Paul Moyer along with Dave Wyman, broadcasting 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 2: from the Seahawks Podcast Studio, presented by Sony, an official 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 2: partner of the Seattle Seahawks. A lot of people don't 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 2: remember the Kingdom. Dave, you're going to be talking about 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: the Kingdom right now. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 3: It blew it up. 10 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: It's you know, some interesting things about the king Let 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 2: me read some stats for you. It was born in 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six March of nineteen seventy six, and was 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 2: imploded in March almost to the day, March twenty six 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 2: of two thousand, so March twenty seventh it was born, 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: and it was no longer in March twenty six. It 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:57,319 Speaker 2: was the originally located on almost thirty six acres. Due 17 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 2: to construction of the new parking the garage and events center, 18 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 2: now it is it's only twenty four acres. It was 19 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 2: the It contained fifty two eight hundred cubic yards of concrete, 20 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 2: which at the time was the largest concrete structure you 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: know for a roof in the world. I remember one 22 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 2: time being in an earthquake there for a Mariner game, 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 2: and all I can remember being in California is I go, 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: earthquakes are bad. Concrete above us is probably bad. We 25 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 2: should leave, which we did. But it was really unique. 26 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 2: A couple things for me that I remember there. We'll 27 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 2: talk about some stories, our most memorable stories, because it 28 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 2: was a magical place. It was unique. But I think 29 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 2: it was magical and unique for the home team players. 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 2: I don't think it'd be great magical for opposing team players. 31 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: I remember one thing that, you know, the locker rooms were. 32 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 2: They weren't small, but they were just they were they were. 33 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: It was spartan, spartan, thank you. Yeah, very straightforward, like yeah, 34 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 2: this is the locker it does. It's not a lot 35 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 2: of style. There's concrete and wood. Some would mostly concrete. Yeah, 36 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: showers were okay, Stalls could have been a few more, 37 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 2: especially for guys like Dave Wyman and bigger and soundproof. 38 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: But here's what I remember. Here's what I remember. I 39 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 2: remember going out on the field, coming going out during 40 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: warm ups, and you know, the crowd would get there 41 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: early and they would start clapping you know they when 42 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: we started doing our calsonics and stretching as a team, 43 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 2: they would clap with us, and I always thought that 44 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 2: was kind of cool. But it was cold and they 45 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 2: kept it a constant temperature. I wanted to say it 46 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: was like seventy two degrees sixty eight degrees, but it 47 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: felt like I was in my house with the air 48 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 2: conditioning on and I would say, crank, crank, that heat 49 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: up a bit. And I think the big thing that 50 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 2: I remember before we share some your stories too, Dave, 51 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 2: is it was uncomfortably loud at times. I mean it hurts. 52 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 2: And when I tell people the experience for a player, 53 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 2: it was awesome because it was so loud. It was 54 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 2: such an amazing home field advantage, particularly as a player. 55 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 2: And I think, you know ninety five Mariner season, you 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 2: know they finally got something rolling on that too. But 57 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 2: the experience now at Luminfield, it's so much better for fans, 58 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 2: for players. It's really loud, but it's not uncomfortably loud. 59 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: And I described the difference is it's loud and at 60 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: Lumen you have to get close to somebody to talk, 61 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 2: but you can talk, you can hear them. You could 62 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 2: not hear anything inside the Kingdom, and they had it, 63 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 2: you know those decimal levels. It would like see what 64 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: the highest one was. It was like a jet engine, 65 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 2: truly a jet engine, and it hurt. And so it's 66 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: just a different type of peer seeing loudness to it. 67 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: But it was some There was some great memories, Dave. 68 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 2: I mean, I was a good home for us for 69 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: for quite a while. 70 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, well you grew to love that, especially for me. 71 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: So Stanford Stadium or where I went to college, was 72 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: kind of down, sort of dug out, so you could 73 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: see the trees growing up, you know, around the stadium 74 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: and the beautiful green natural grass and you know, the 75 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: sun and every I don't think we had. I think 76 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: we had maybe one or two rainy days or games 77 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: at Stanford. And then I get there and it was 78 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: really kind of like you know, we mentioned the word 79 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: spartan like it was just very basic. It was like 80 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: being in an office building, you know that somebody just 81 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: slapped together with concrete and fluorescent lights and that's and 82 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: so in the beginning my rookie year, I hated it, 83 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 1: I really and I wasn't playing. I had a terrible season, 84 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: and you know that was the other strike and so 85 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: there was a lot of things that were going wrong. 86 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: But then also I just didn't really appreciate it. 87 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 3: Well. 88 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: The next year I came back and I was a 89 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: starting linebacker, and all of a sudden, I realized, like, Wow, 90 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: this is this is a whole new level of as 91 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: far as adrenaline goes for me. And one of the 92 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: things I remember, I think the loudest that I remember, 93 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: was we played the Buffalo Bills in a Monday night 94 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: game in nineteen eighty eight, and so this is back 95 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: when I could brush the passer and they would have 96 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: me come off the edge every once in a while. 97 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: So I'm rushing Jim Kelly and so I decide to 98 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: dive over the top of the guy was gonna cut me. 99 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 3: I should have. 100 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: Hopped over him, Paul, I remember that, Yeah, But I 101 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: dove and so I looked like I was Superman. So 102 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: photographer Corky Truan got a perfect picture of it where 103 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: actually me and Jim Kelly are like our hands are 104 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: like interlocked, like I'm reaching out and he's kind of 105 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: like trying to push me away. I don't end up 106 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: getting the sack, but it was just a pressure, you know. 107 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: And then I think Boogie sacked him, Jeff Bryant. But yeah, 108 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: I was like, you know, horizontal, probably about five feet 109 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: in the air, and I landed on that turf, which 110 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: wasn't super soft, and I did not feel a thing 111 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: because of the adrenaline. I mean, you wouldn't. You couldn't 112 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: feel big hits, You couldn't. I mean, I remember having 113 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: one time I jammed my finger and it was pointing 114 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: the wrong way and somebody had to, you know, relocate it. 115 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: I think Jim Whitzel came over and put my finger 116 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: back in, and it was like, didn't hurt, you know, 117 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: because the adrenaline that those fans created there. And then 118 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 1: you know, you came to appreciate the fact that it 119 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: had a concrete roof because the sound would echo off 120 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: of that and just make it louder. And I mean 121 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: that was I remember the they what year was it, 122 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: I think it was eighty nine where they tried to 123 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: penalized teams for noise, and I think it was that 124 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: year and they finally just gave up on the whole 125 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: thing the way I remember it. 126 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 3: Anyway, But that kind. 127 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: Of all started because teams coming into Seattle, you know, 128 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: they couldn't hear anything, so you know, for defense, I 129 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: mean we had to communicate and we had to get 130 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: you know, the hand signals down, but you couldn't hear 131 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: somebody if you were standing right next to. 132 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 2: Them, couldn't do it. And I'll elaborate on you that 133 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 2: the turf for those now with the field turf, it's 134 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: almost light grass. Back then we had about a quarter 135 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 2: inch of carpet and it was carpet, and then they 136 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 2: had a one sixteenth of an inch of padding underneath 137 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 2: that carpet, and then it was concrete. So it was 138 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 2: very fast. But we used to get these rugburns, so 139 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: you would slip and we would try and tape our 140 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 2: elbows and knees, but you never completely because they would 141 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 2: roll up on you. Yeah, and we would get these 142 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 2: huge red spots, you know, just your skin has been 143 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 2: peeled off. And then we'd have to go into the 144 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 2: shower and screaming it hurts so bad. And then you 145 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 2: mentioned the turf and what was the other part of 146 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 2: the noise. I was going to comment on on something 147 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 2: on the noise, but I don't remember now. 148 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, just the echo off of the roof and yeah. 149 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, now I remember you're it would be so loud 150 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 2: and you really you couldn't hear each other defensively. I 151 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 2: remember my experience and said, well, what's that? What's that experience? Like, 152 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 2: I go, you feel like you can lift a car. 153 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: You know, you're just you're so jacked up because of it. 154 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 2: But I remember as a dB at time, I felt 155 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 2: like I was in a Madden game just watching the 156 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 2: game from this. It was so weird because our pass 157 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 2: rust was so good because of the crowd, and the 158 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 2: quarterbacks would complain, oh, this was it. And because of 159 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 2: that noise. They literally had an NFL rule that if 160 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 2: you didn't quiet down, they would penalize the defense five 161 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 2: yards and we would have to tell the crowd to 162 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 2: be quiet. Now can you imagine that today you have 163 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 2: to be quiet? I mean, it's just it's unheard of. 164 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 2: I remember John Elway. He would work it. He would 165 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 2: get up there and the play clock is starting to 166 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 2: wind down. It's getting you know, five six seconds, and 167 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 2: he would turn to the rest like I can't hear. 168 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 2: And then they had to make a decision. Do I say, 169 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 2: get back under the center and go do they stop 170 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 2: the clock? Do they warn the crowd that didn't play 171 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 2: out very long. I mean, they didn't really call that 172 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 2: on us, it was just it really slowed the game down. 173 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: All it did was it made the crowd louder and 174 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 2: they would just they would turn on it. Let's talk 175 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 2: about a couple of things as well. I'd mentioned that 176 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 2: it was on thirty nine and a half acres, so 177 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 2: part of that was the parking lot. So today you 178 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 2: go to Loomenfield, there's really no there's a parking structure 179 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 2: on the south side. There's a small area obviously on 180 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: the north side, but it's not very big. But back 181 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 2: then the parking lot was pretty big on both sides. 182 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: And so we used to park there with the fans, 183 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 2: the twelves, and we would walk into the stadium and 184 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 2: they would greet us. Today they'd come into a nice 185 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 2: secure spot, and it's a different world. We get it. 186 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 2: The fans don't get to interact with the players like that. 187 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: And something that was fun that we used to do 188 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 2: is we would tailgate with them. After the game. We 189 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 2: would go out, our families would wait for us in 190 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 2: the tunnels and we would greet them and if sometimes 191 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 2: they would go out to the parking lot with us, 192 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 2: and you know, we might share a few beverages of 193 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 2: water or whatever choice you have, but we really I 194 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 2: want to say that was a big part of the 195 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 2: connection to the twelves is that they had access to us, 196 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 2: and a lot of it was in that parking lot, 197 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 2: coming to and from the from the game. What do 198 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 2: you remember about that? 199 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the thing that The The other thing is, yeah, 200 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: I used to always say about the fans in the Kingdom, 201 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: they don't come there for leisure. They come there to work. 202 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: They would go to work because they truly could affect 203 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: the outcome of the game. And they knew that. And 204 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: you know, we saw that at Loomenfield when they started 205 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: keeping track of you know, offside penalties or false start 206 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: penalties and they just you know, they're just it's just 207 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: it's a defiant group of fans here. I think that 208 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: there's no way you were going to shut them up, 209 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: first of all, and you know then if you. 210 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 3: Try to, they're just going to get louder, as you mentioned. 211 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: So yeah, that was But then also like you said, 212 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: I mean I don't remember anybody coming up and you know, 213 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: I don't remember having to sign fifty or one hundred 214 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: you know, autographs or anything like that. I remember one 215 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: time I walked out of the Kingdom and I met 216 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: one of my friends and we went across the street 217 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: and got a beer and then I think, you know, 218 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: I had made a play or something, and it was 219 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 1: the highlight. You know, We're playing on TV and everybody's 220 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,719 Speaker 1: like looking at it, but nobody was looking at me. 221 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: I could just walk right out of there, and I 222 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: thought that was cool, you know. And you know, and 223 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: I think that the times when the fans did come 224 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 1: up to you and recognize you, they are always super respectful. 225 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: They're just a there's just a culture here in Seattle 226 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: of like I said, sort of defiance and stubbornness, and 227 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 1: that's what makes them such great fans. But also you know, 228 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: they always just treated you, treated me anyway, just like 229 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: a normal person, you know. And yeah, it was it 230 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: was a really different and like I said, coming from Stanford, 231 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: you know, it was just such a different environment. But 232 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: I just grew to absolutely love the Kingdom. I love 233 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: going and anytime, you know, we had a home game, 234 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: I always felt like a I don't care who it is, 235 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: we got a chance to win. 236 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 2: It was definitely a multi purpose stadium. The Mariners obviously 237 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: played there. The Sonics played there for many years. We 238 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 2: had soccer, the Sounders previous Sounders, huge NCAA tournaments there, 239 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 2: for basketball, volleyball, I mean everything, concerts. I remember going 240 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 2: there for a bunch of different things. But one thing 241 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 2: I do remember about the Kingdom as we shared it 242 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 2: with the Sonics, the Mariners, and obviously the Seahawks, and 243 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 2: we would go sometimes we would go to the Kingdom 244 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 2: to practice if the weather was really bad. We didn't 245 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 2: have an indoor facility back in eighty three through eighty 246 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 2: six or five, and so when the weather would get 247 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 2: really bad before they got the Bubble and certainly before 248 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 2: the facility they have here at vMac, we would have 249 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 2: to go to the Kingdom. We'd go across five twenty 250 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: paint in a neck, but we would have to time it. 251 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 2: And often the Sonics were coming off the practice court, 252 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 2: so they still they had their basketball arena in the middle, 253 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,239 Speaker 2: so we would have the other side of the stadium 254 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 2: to do or whatever we're going to do from a 255 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 2: practice standpoint. I remember going to a bunch of Mariner games. 256 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 2: It was like no big deal. I mean, first of all, 257 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 2: about five six thousand people showed up from Marina games 258 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 2: back then. But you know, guys like Dave Valley and 259 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 2: Harold Reynolds and you know, still good friends were playing. 260 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 2: And I remember Kurt Warner and I going there and 261 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 2: we were like celebrities. I mean, they were like they 262 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 2: couldn't believe we were at the game. I remember Dave Henderson, 263 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: God rest his soul too, there's a great athlete. When 264 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 2: we would get in their locker room, he goes, man, 265 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 2: I can't believe you guys are here, and he was 266 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 2: trying to show off how great an athlete he was. 267 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 2: And I just remember they had a little box behind 268 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 2: home plate that we could go there. They had the 269 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 2: radar guns and stuff, and Kurt and I would go 270 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: back there and the crowd would start hearing that, you know, 271 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 2: some Seahawks are at the game. There'd be a murmur going. 272 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 2: But we shared that. And so back then, all the 273 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 2: basketball players, all the football players, all the baseball but 274 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 2: we all knew each other, you know, and so we 275 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: all shared that. For a couple of years, probably two 276 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 2: or three years, that stadium was shared by all three 277 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 2: of the professional sports teams. So I thought that was 278 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 2: pretty good. 279 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: I remember Junior coming in the locker room one time 280 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: and everybody's like and I'm like, who's this guy? And 281 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, he's supposed to be really good. Yeah, 282 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: Randy Johnson. He used to take pictures. And you know, 283 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: another thing I wanted to mention. You know, you mentioned 284 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: the bubble. That bubble looked like a maggot that laying 285 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: on the ground. 286 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 3: It was. It was really pretty ugly. 287 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 2: Oh gives some share where that was and what that looks. 288 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: Well, it was in Kirkland, in a really nice neighborhood. 289 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: So and my point is, I think this is another 290 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: thing why Seahawks fans are so loyal. Like a lot 291 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,239 Speaker 1: of people in that that neighborhood with the homeowners association 292 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: and things like that, would be like why do I 293 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: want to look at that thing? Or you know, I 294 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: think it was up for three months, four months, maybe 295 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: a year, just during the season, but you know, I 296 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: feel like the the neighborhood, the people there knew that. 297 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: Oh that was so the Seahawks can practice indoors. So 298 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: I'm not going to worry about it, you know. And 299 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: if that was probably in any other NFL city, I 300 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: think people would have complained about it and I think 301 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: the Seahawks made concessions and everything, but that that that 302 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: bubble was really unsightly. 303 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 3: It wasn't it was. 304 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 2: A white tent. It was a white tent. So since 305 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 2: we're on that, I was at the first facility, which 306 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 2: was at Caroll One Point in downtown in Kirkland. Today, 307 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 2: they have that's pretty expensive real estate, really expended. They got. 308 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 2: They got the marina there, they got the restaurants, they 309 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 2: got the Woodmart hotel there. I mean, it's really nice, 310 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 2: but back when we were there, it was kind of 311 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: two grass fields. It was right on the water. We 312 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 2: had a structure that was probably I'd love to actually 313 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 2: go back and see what the I bet it wasn't 314 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: more than four or five thousand square feet where we 315 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 2: had our locker rooms, all the management and coaches office 316 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,239 Speaker 2: were there, and then we had little portable trailers that 317 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 2: they had for the players for the meetings outside. I 318 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 2: remember being cold too, man, it would get really really cold. 319 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 2: Snowed a little bit more back then, and then they 320 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 2: had those willows so it was even hard to see 321 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 2: by the water. It was hard hard to see the water. 322 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: So our locker room and our weight room we shared 323 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 2: the same room. So if you ever go and see 324 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 2: the Seahawks rock that video that we did back in 325 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 2: like nineteen eighty four, yeah, I don't. 326 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 3: I don't want to. 327 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 2: Push anybody to that. The Seahawks ll type of thing. 328 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: Yeah good good, good acting well Paul Moyle an acta. 329 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,360 Speaker 2: But we shared our locker room with the weights in there, 330 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 2: I mean, and again we'd go pump some you know, 331 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 2: chest press stuff and say, okay, I got my exercise. 332 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 3: Then it wasn't. 333 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 2: Nearly as big. And then the Seahawks went up to 334 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 2: Northwest College and Northwest College wasn't using part of their 335 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 2: their their acreage there and so they built in least 336 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 2: a structure and built and it was so nice at 337 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 2: that time. It was like, wow, we actually have our 338 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 2: own lockers and we have our own weight room, even 339 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 2: though it was still pretty small and much nicer upstairs 340 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 2: for all the administration and things, which, by the way, 341 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 2: you could take that big building, which I thought was 342 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 2: big at the time, and you could put that probably 343 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 2: in the indoor practice facility and put two of them. 344 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 2: That's how big where we are here at vMac now is. 345 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 2: And so I got to see that, and then obviously 346 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 2: when they built this new one here on Lake Washington. 347 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 2: It was just, uh, yeah, this is this is as 348 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 2: good as it gets. But some some memories, Dave, I'll 349 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 2: hit you first. What I mean, yeah, one or two. 350 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 2: Let's just say favorite, not memorable, but favorite Kingdom memories. 351 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that Monday night football game 352 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: against the Bills, because remember the Bills were pretty dominant 353 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: at that point. I remember they had Cornelius Bennett and 354 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 1: Jim Kelly and Jane Conlin. They had some really good Bruce. 355 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 2: Waltons Thurman or not Walter thurm but uh they're running 356 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 2: back yeah. 357 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: Blank too, but yeah, and they came in there and 358 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: I think that, Yeah, it was a Monday night game 359 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: that was really that was really cool. 360 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 2: Thomas, thank you great, really good running back. They had 361 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 2: good wide receivers, Davy. That was one of my more 362 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 2: memorable interceptions where I laid out across the fe on 363 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 2: that one. 364 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: Then I remember that, Yeah, I turned around out of 365 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: my hook zone. I look and there's Paul Mooy. It 366 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: looked like he was Superman diving for that. 367 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 2: That that's because I saw you, Superman, and I said, 368 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: you were diving towards Jim Kelly. I said, I'm gonna 369 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: do the same thing, but I'm gonna intercept it. 370 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, I felt bad for Corky Truan 371 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: because he took that picture and it should have been 372 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: like NFL Photo of the Year, but they don't do 373 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: indoor photos. I guess the outdoor photos are better. But 374 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: I mean he did such a great because it wasn't 375 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 1: just on like the sports page. It was on the 376 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: front page of either the Post Intelligence or Seattle Times. 377 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 3: And but yeah, that that was. 378 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: One where I had a lot of friends that were 379 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: because you couldn't just dial up any football game back then. 380 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: One of the one of the things I did, I 381 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: bought my parents a big dish. This dish was like 382 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: ten feet in diameter, and that in order to get 383 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: all the Seahawk games. But yeah, I mean it wasn't 384 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: very often that you were that you were on TV, 385 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 1: and so Monday Night Football I was then that was huge. 386 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: I mean I was still Howard Cosell and Dandy Don 387 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 2: and all those guys, Frank Gifford. I mean, that was 388 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 2: a huge production. And then it switched obviously to John Madden, 389 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,719 Speaker 2: which was another huge production. And if you got your 390 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 2: name mentioned by one of them. You were you were 391 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 2: really impressive. I'll throw a couple memorable ones or look, 392 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 2: the best moment probably it was honest. It was the 393 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 2: first playoff game in nineteen eighty three against the Denver Broncos. 394 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: It was just so electric. We were playing well, we 395 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 2: destroyed him, so the crowd really got to celebrate with us. 396 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 2: And I remember going into the locker room and the 397 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 2: crowd didn't leave. Give me a little goosebumps here, because 398 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 2: we came back out and we would ran through the 399 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 2: whole around the whole kingdom, and we're high five and 400 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 2: all the fans and uh, you know, and obviously is 401 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 2: I mentioning. We end up going to the SC championship game. 402 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 2: So that was that was really really cool. The one 403 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 2: that I don't like, but it played so much, is 404 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 2: one bo Jackson had that ninety six yard touchdown run. 405 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 2: Unfortunately I was on the field at that time. Boogie 406 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 2: jeff Ryant still thinks I got in his way. Well, 407 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 2: you were gonna catch him, You was gonna catch him. 408 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 2: And I'm watching Terry Taylor and Kenny easily with an 409 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 2: angle in bo Jackson. I mean talking about another freak, 410 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 2: freak athlete What I do remember about that game, though, 411 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 2: is that was nineteen. I want to say it was 412 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 2: eighty eight, eighty seven. It was next year in eighty 413 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 2: eight when Chuck Knox said, that's never happening again, and 414 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 2: we got look, you guys have heard this. I've apologized. 415 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: I feel terrible. I cursed bo Jackson out every play 416 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,959 Speaker 2: I was in his ear. I figured, look, I am 417 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 2: not as fast as big, but I got to get 418 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 2: it into mentally. And yeah, not proud of those moments, 419 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 2: but you know, at the time, you do what you 420 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 2: gotta do to win. Let me let me throw down 421 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 2: with the top ten moments are voted on by the 422 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 2: fans back in nineteen ninety nine. The first home win 423 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 2: was in versus Atlanta back in nineteen seventy six. It's 424 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 2: a long time ago. First regular season win over the 425 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 2: Chargers after eight straight losses was nineteen eighty one. First 426 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 2: home playoff win versus Denver. So mentioned that one four 427 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 2: pick six games versus Kansas City in nineteen eighty four 428 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 2: as part of that. That was again, that was just 429 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:36,880 Speaker 2: a wild game. 430 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 1: Four interceptions for a touchdown or touchdowns, that's unbelievable. 431 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was again that was that eighty 432 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,719 Speaker 2: four season. Was me clinching a playoff Berth versus Detroit 433 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 2: in eighty four. That one I don't remember, but I 434 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 2: don't remember that. One interesting being the defended Super Bowl 435 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 2: champ Raiders in asc wildcard game in nineteen eighty four. 436 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 2: That was a memorable game. Was that again? 437 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 3: Was it? 438 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 2: Well, thirteen to seven game, just a slugfest. You know, 439 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 2: they were Super Bowl champs and so that was a 440 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 2: nice win for US. Largin breaks NFL record for consecutive 441 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 2: games with a pass reception. That was nineteen eighty six. 442 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 2: I remember that Carmichael from Philadelphia had the record, and 443 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 2: I remember it was a big deal. I think they 444 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 2: even timed that up. I'm wonder if that was a 445 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 2: Monday night game also because they knew that was coming. 446 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 2: But I remember it being somewhat of a national game. 447 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 2: You remember this one, and it was Largent's revenge hit 448 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 2: on Mike Harden And I remember that because I don't 449 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 2: think I was even playing that. I think I was 450 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 2: hurt and maybe it was my last year was that 451 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine? 452 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 3: It was eighty eight eighty Well then. 453 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 2: I was playing. Never mind, I have a love hate 454 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 2: relationship with that play. For those who don't remember Steve 455 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:04,719 Speaker 2: first game of the season there, you know, Harden catches 456 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 2: them right here, breaks pretty much everything in Steve Largent's face, 457 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: who probably had just one bar at the time. I 458 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,719 Speaker 2: think he ended up going to two after And you know, 459 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 2: we get them towards the end of the year and 460 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 2: we throw an interception and Harden's running around and Steve 461 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 2: Largent decleats them, causes a fumble and jumps on the ball. 462 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 2: And the reason I have a love hate relationship is 463 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 2: it's it's such a great play. I mean, it's such 464 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 2: a good and it's one of those it's just it's 465 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 2: a movie script, right, I mean, you got your Hall 466 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:43,879 Speaker 2: of Fame, great human being who gets sucker punched, sucker play, 467 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 2: you know, dirty play. You know today you had been fine, 468 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 2: kicked out of the game, suspended for that kind of play. 469 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 2: I mean, that's just not even tolerated. That was just 470 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 2: a I think it was a fifteen yard penalty. I 471 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 2: don't even know if it was, because back then, I 472 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 2: don't know if that was illegal. The love part is, God, 473 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 2: I'm so happy that it happened to him. I'm like 474 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,919 Speaker 2: all the hits I've had in my life, and everybody 475 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 2: talks about that hit or all our defensive I mean, 476 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 2: we get paid to hit people, right, and Steve's had 477 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 2: one hit in his life and it's played over and 478 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 2: over and over. So that's my love hate. But I 479 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 2: was really happy for him on that well. 480 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: It was just so poetic that he got revenge. I 481 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: mean it was such a Steve largent thing because he 482 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: wasn't going to do anything illegal to get back at him. 483 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure that Steve in his mind had forgiven Mike 484 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: Harden for the hit that he took. But yeah, I 485 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: remember that was the hit in Denver. 486 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 3: Was that was my. 487 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 2: Very first start the first game of the year. 488 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the first game. 489 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: We we end up beating on him there, but I 490 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: remember him being in bad shape and then you know, 491 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: and I would say that was the moment where it 492 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,360 Speaker 1: got the loudest in the Kingdom was when Steve got 493 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: the revenge hit, I think for sure, and everybody knew 494 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: what was going on, and you know what was on 495 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: the line, and you know that that whole dirty hit, 496 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: like you said, he put his elbow right in Steve's face. 497 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 2: I mean it was I mean it's it was nasty. 498 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 2: I mean it was knockout city. I mean it's concussion. Yeah, 499 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 2: all kinds of yea, that was. That was That was crazy. 500 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 2: Pete Gross Ring of Honor, first ring of honor, Pete 501 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 2: Grow the great, great play by play. And you know 502 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 2: Steve Rabel has taken that and honored him and they 503 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 2: worked together for a long time. I remember that was 504 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 2: November thirtieth, nineteen ninety two. It was the ninety two 505 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 2: season I was coaching. You were playing at the time, Dave, 506 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 2: And do you remember much about that? 507 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just you know, I always had an affection 508 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: for from Pete Gross. He was just the nicest guy 509 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: and just did such a great job. And I just 510 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: I remember, you know, actually talking to those guys a lot. 511 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 3: I don't know that a lot of the players. 512 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't know, you know, he used to talk 513 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 1: to Rabel on the on the plane, and I don't 514 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: know if he was like one of the trainers or 515 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: maybe he was I don't know what he was doing. 516 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 3: Oh they broadcast the games on the radio. Did I 517 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:12,360 Speaker 3: didn't know that? 518 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I remember getting really close with Steve 519 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: back in like nineteen eighty eight, eighty nine. We talked 520 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: the whole way home from a trip to Cincinnati after 521 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 1: a game, and but no I knew who he was. 522 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: But Pete Gross. Everybody knew who Pete Gross was. And 523 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: you know, I talked to him a number of times. 524 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: And I remember right before he died, he was there, 525 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,360 Speaker 1: and I think it was like two days before he passed. 526 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 3: He was there. 527 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: Doing interviews and I remember him interviewing me and I 528 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: was just looking at him, going, oh man, I'm so sorry. 529 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 3: I mean, it was just he was he was so sick. 530 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you know, he just he's there dutifully 531 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: doing his job, you know, getting interviews, and then I 532 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: think it was two or three days later he passed. 533 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean he he was such a huge 534 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: part of our team. And you know, everybody, everybody knew 535 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,959 Speaker 1: Pete Gross. I mean his his voice. And now Rabes 536 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: is that guy the voice of the Seahawks. 537 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 2: Yeah. I was fortunate. It was one of the last 538 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 2: road games. 539 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 3: Back then. 540 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 2: I was coaching at the time, and the coaches sat 541 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 2: up in first class rightfully, So I guess I don't 542 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 2: know nowadays, I think they probably switched that around. But 543 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 2: I remember Pete was like you guys do, flying the 544 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 2: team plane, and they brought him up the first class. 545 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 2: They sat him next to me and we went somewhere 546 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 2: back east. It was a pretty long trip, and I'd 547 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 2: known Pete for a long time, but it was you know, 548 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 2: in passing. You know, it was nothing where we hung 549 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 2: out before I got spend you know, four hours or 550 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 2: so with him, and I asked him so many questions, 551 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 2: you know, just about his life and how he got 552 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 2: into this and his passions and so. Yeah. So that 553 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 2: was a real blessing. And as you mentioned, a we 554 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 2: on a Monday night the first ring of honor. I mean, 555 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 2: what a tradition that has become. And two days later, 556 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 2: you know, he had passed away. I was a very 557 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 2: memorable moment. So so those are some of the fan ones. 558 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 2: I'll give you my the one, the loudest back. They 559 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 2: remember the old you know Ghostbuster signs that were always 560 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 2: going around Epic. One of them was when we played 561 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight. They had a boss Buster once, but 562 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 2: they had a Raider Busters that we had and I 563 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 2: want to say it was nineteen eighty six, but for 564 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 2: those who are listening, I might be wrong. In the 565 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 2: year and we were playing the Raiders on Monday night 566 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 2: and we shut them out. We blew them out. It 567 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 2: was so loud, and everybody had their Raider buster shirts, 568 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 2: you know, use there. I think there was kind of 569 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 2: a white out, you know t shirt. Matter of fact, 570 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 2: another thing in the Kingdom, do you remember when they 571 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 2: used to make the kind of paper sign they had 572 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 2: the rat patrol for the special teams Rusty Rusty. Yeah, 573 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 2: and I remember, and they would have all the Special 574 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 2: Team guys on there and like created characters. It was 575 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 2: really cool and again huge pride on that. And you know, 576 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 2: I mean Seahawks have been you know, a lot of 577 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 2: it because of Rusty. It was because a Rusty, great 578 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 2: tradition on special teams. But I remember this, I'm gonna 579 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 2: call it eight nineteen eighty six, and we're we shut 580 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 2: them out. We just we blow them that. It was 581 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 2: so loud. It was one of those days where this 582 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 2: is where Dave goes, that doesn't work, Paul. But it 583 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 2: was so that we would tape the little ear hoolds 584 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 2: because it would be like you muffled your put your 585 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 2: hands over your ear so Dave can understand it. Which, 586 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 2: by the way, I just saw one of the Seahawk guys. 587 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 2: They did that inside theirs too, but it was so 588 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 2: loud you tried to put something over just to get 589 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 2: that type of noise that hurt you. I mean it 590 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 2: hurt you. I almost want to put your fingers in 591 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 2: your ears. And it was it was. The Raiders were 592 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,360 Speaker 2: the most hated team by the Twelves, and when we 593 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 2: were in the ac Denver was a close second. Kansas 594 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 2: City was never any good, even though we couldn't beat 595 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 2: them in Kansas City. They had really good teams. I mean, 596 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 2: they great defenses back then. But what I remember, again, 597 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 2: my biggest memories of that kingdom was just how loud 598 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 2: it was, how much passion the Twelves had in it. 599 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 2: I mean, as you said, Dave, they came to work. 600 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 2: I remember going to again concerts there. I remember going 601 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 2: to all kinds of sporting events. So it was a 602 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 2: good home for a very long, long long time. 603 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's a weird memory, but I remember when 604 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: we would stretch and you'd do the one where you 605 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,479 Speaker 1: go on your back, and I remember looking up and 606 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: there was like a little door up there in the 607 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: very middle of the kingdom, and I'm like, what would 608 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: that be like if you were up there and you 609 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: just like opened that door and looked down and I 610 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 1: just remember thinking, and that would be a long ways 611 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: to fall, but I just would always it got in 612 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: my head, so like every time I stretch, I would 613 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: look up at that little door and think of something. 614 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 3: I don't know, but. 615 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 2: I think of more and more about it, because funny 616 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 2: they I remember looking up there too, going, MAT's really 617 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 2: high up there? What's up there? 618 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're right in the middle. Weird, weird, there was 619 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 4: a door. Weird, weird, weird moments. Forgot my train of 620 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 4: thought on this last one. But some good memories, obviously, 621 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 4: and you know it treated us right. A lot of 622 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 4: great wins were there. You know, our first AC championship 623 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 4: in eighty eight was there. We gravitated to I remember 624 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 4: one remember when the tiles fell you might have been gone. 625 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 2: You were probably gone by then. And then that's when 626 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 2: we had to move to Husky Stadium for half the season, 627 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 2: which was really odd. 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