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The Fan is now at: www.The-Fan.org Please update your links or bookmarks accordingly - see you on the other side!

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With the Hawks season over, the Mariners yet to start, the Sonics and Blazers having completely disinteresting seasons, and March Madness still a month away, I've decided this is the perfect time to do something that's been on my mind for several months now: We're moving away from blogspot.com to our own domain, and it'll be using Wordpress instead. This is why there hasn't been a post since

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Shaun Alexander Originally uploaded by Matt McGee. The Seahawks off-season will be dominated by talk of Shaun Alexander, and so it's likely to come up for discussion here on The Fan more than once. Since there's possibly room for some good debate on what the Hawks should do, here's a position paper on where we stand ... just for the record. Agree? Disagree? Fire away.What We Love About

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C'mon, we may as well go whole-hog on this, right? Let's get the NFL involved, not just their officials. :-) NFL adds fuel to conspiracy theory flames“Steelers towels were on sale at every souvenir stand in the stadium,” Holmgren said, noting that blue-and-green Seahawks towels were not available. “That,” he said, “seems pretty unfair.” (snip) Souvenir stands are something else: Either make

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Go ahead and tell me I'm beating a dead horse. You're probably right. But I'm finding some good voices out there who are saying things that need to be documented. Like Michael Wilbon in the Washington Post:Seattle should have been ahead by a couple of touchdowns, yet found themselves down 7-3 at halftime because the referees blew a call. Roethlisberger's third-down dive into the end zone simply

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And here I was afraid us Seahawks' fans would be the only ones griping about officiating and coming off as sore losers. Nope. Check these out: ESPN.com Forum: These aren't Seattle fan complaining -- fans around the league agree the Hawks got screwed :-) FoxSports.com: Refs were far from super in this one Says Kevin Hench:I've been shrieking hysterically about the terrible officiating in the

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Three plays. The Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl despite making only three plays the whole game, which is a testament to how much the Seahawks shot themselves in the foot and -- I hate to even mention it, but how can you not? -- to the poor officiating. Three plays: A long TD run, a gadget play for a TD pass, and an INT. Outside of that, the Seahawks controlled this game. To wit, Seattle

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Terrible all around. Too many penalties. Terrible officiating. D-Jack's TD was not a penalty -- the DB was standing upright and D-Jack's alleged push didn't move the guy an inch. And Roethlisberger didn't get in the end zone. Still, Seahawks are hurting themselves as much as the refs are. What is up with all the penalties??? Gotta fix that. I'm sure they will. G O S E A H A W K S ! ! ! !

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Thought I'd post a photo of the setup at The Fan's house. Got the shirts, the Marcus Trufant autograph at the top, the Qwest Field poster at the bottom, the trading cards right below the TV screen ... we're ready. G O S E A H A W K S ! ! ! ! ! !

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... and the main thing right now for me is nervous. I have this fear that the Hawks are gonna pick today to play their worst game of the year. Ugh. Is this normal? Those of you who've had your favorite team in the Super Bowl -- were you nervous before the game? GO HAWKS!!

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If you're looking for a more stat-heavy analysis of the Super Bowl, FO's Aaron Schatz has you covered on FoxSports.com. And bonus! Schatz also gives a slight edge to the Seahawks.The Seahawks will get their points, and bottle up Pittsburgh's running game. That leaves it up to Roethlisberger to build on his legend by passing the Steelers to victory in a shootout. If he plays as well as he did in

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He's covered both the Steelers and the Seahawks as a newspaper writer, but John Clayton likes the Hawks to win on Sunday -- he's one of a few ESPN guys picking Seattle. (Here's a full chart of ESPN personalities' picks.) And Clayton's logic behind the pick is very professorial, as you'd expect. The 5th item on his list, for example, is the kind of thing you'll only read from Clayton ... or maybe

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Sick as a dog today, so not much to say other than a reminder that we're looking for your Super Bowl predictions as begun a couple posts ago.

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Phil found this page on the Food Network's web site where they offer city-themed Super Bowl menus for both Seattle and Pittsburgh. Seattle: crab, mussels, oysters, salmon ... yuck. Can't stand seafood. In this one case, I think I'll go with the Pittsburgh menu - kielbasa, pierogis, chili, that sounds about right. Actually, I'll be sticking with my tried-and-true on Sunday -- chips and Rojo's

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When asked how the Seahawks are underdogs this week, Jerramy Stevens blamed it on "east coast bias, maybe national bias." He also said the Steelers get credit for being a team that's won Super Bowls before, plus they beat the Colts in the playoffs, etc. The east coast bias comment is in line with what I posted several days ago. And then Darrel Jackson said today that rainy weather in Detroit on

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If you have access to it, glue your TV dial or remote or satellite dish to NFL Network -- they're planning wall-to-wall coverage all week from Detroit. I was thrilled with Sunday night's coverage of the Seahawks arrival, initial press conferences, etc. If you don't have access to NFL Network on your TV, I have to recommend the News-Tribune's Seahawk Insider blog. Mike Sando and their crew are

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Okay, let's open this up and share predictions on the Super Bowl. If you just want to put a final score and winner, that's cool, but a little bit of explanation would be great. I'll go first. Seahawks win 27-21 I'm not as concerned as the pundits about the Steelers blitzing, aggressive defense, nor about the fact they play a 3-4, which the Hawks struggled against vs. Dallas. Seattle's a

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I have a friend who lives in Pittsburgh, so don't go getting bent out of shape with me. She's the one making the Steelerfan-Mullet connection. This is from an email I got today talking about the big Steelers Rally they had Friday night:...the freak flags are flying high here in Steeler Nation. They had a rally at Heinz field last night, and over 30,000 people showed up. You've never seen such a

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Seahawks Super Dog on eBay Currently above $10,000. This is one of those things where you marvel at the stupidity of people and then think to yourself, "Man, I wish I had thought of that first." :-)

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Not that you need another reason to hate the state of Texas, but they're just so damn intent down there on giving us more reasons. Texas A&M unhappy Seattle fans called '12th man' Yes, they're crying about the use of "12th Man" by the Seahawks and its fans.Athletics director Bill Byrne said this week he's received e-mails from A&M supporters complaining about the Seahawks' "brazen use of the

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You'd never know from reading The Fan, but the Sonics are still playing basketball this season (I'm using the term "basketball" loosely) and the Mariners are just a couple weeks from those magical (if you live in Chicago, New York, Anaheim, or Boston) words: "Pitchers and catchers report." The Mariners introduced Kenji Johjima earlier this week -- not exactly a good week to pimp your premiere

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We're new to this out here. First Super Bowl in 30 years. Thank goodness we get the extra week to figure out all the off-the-field stuff. There's a lot to learn when you're making your first SB appearance: 1) Don't piss off your longtime fans. Doesn't Pearl Jam distribute fan club tickets based on how long you've been a member? Longtime members get first crack at the best seats. If it works for

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Meanwhile, the best part (for now, at least) about the Seahawks being in the Super Bowl, is that you can't go anywhere on the web without finding all kinds of stories about the team, the game, the players, you name it. Here's a few worth reading... Gregg Bell of the AP writes about the Seahawks as underdogs, and notes this is hardly the first time a lower seed is favored. If you're

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Wow. The P-I's daily poll asks whose Seahawks jersey you would buy if you were going to buy one today -- Alexander, MattHass, Lofa, #12, or Other. At the moment, Lofa is just kicking everyone's tail ... 51% of the vote in a 5-way race. Incredible. Lofa got my vote, but that's only because I already have Shaun's and Matt's jerseys. Is that why he's so far ahead? Or are we all turning into

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Why are the Steelers favored by 3.5 points over the Seahawks? Is it because they've won seven games in a row and the Seahawks haven't? I doubt it. The oddsmakers are smart enough to understand the Hawks only loss since October 2nd was a meaningless game against Green Bay in Week 17. So you can't use momentum to explain the Steelers being favored. Is it because Seattle is a franchise that's

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