Sea Gals (cheerleaders)

The Seahawks cheerleaders are called the Sea Gals.^[43] During the off-season, a select performing group from the Sea Gals travel parades and with other NFL Cheerleaders on the road.

12th Man

See also: 12th man (football)

"Home of the 12th Man" signage within CenturyLink Field in 2013.

A giant #12 flag of the Seattle Seahawks

The 12th man (also known as the 12s) refers to the fan support of the Seahawks. The team's first home stadium, the Kingdome, was one of the loudest and most disruptive environments in the NFL. Opponents were known to practice with rock music blaring at full blast to prepare for the often painfully high decibel levels generated at games in the Kingdome.
In 2002, the Seahawks began playing at what is now CenturyLink Field. Every regular season and playoff game at CenturyLink Field since the 2nd week of the 2003 season has been played before a sellout crowd.^[44] Like the Kingdome before it, CenturyLink Field is one of the loudest stadiums in the league. The stadium's partial roof and seating decks trap and amplify the noise and bang it back down to the field. This noise has caused problems for opposing teams, causing them to commit numerous false-start penalties. From 2002 through 2012, there have been 143 false-start penalties on visiting teams in Seattle, second only to the Minnesota Vikings.^[45]
The Seahawks' fans have twice set the Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd noise at a sporting event, first on September 15, 2013, registering 136.6 dB during a game against the San Francisco 49ers^[14] and again on December 2, 2013, during a Monday Night Football game against the New Orleans Saints, with a roar of 137.6 dB.^[15][16] As of September 29, 2014, the record of 142.2 dB is held in Arrowhead Stadium by fans of the Kansas City Chiefs.^[46]

A Boeing 747-8F painted in 12th man livery for the team's Super Bowl appearance.

Prior to kickoff of each home game, the Seahawks salute their fans by raising a giant #12 flag at the south end of the stadium.^[47] Current and former players, coaches, local celebrities, prominent fans, Seattle-area athletes, and current owner Paul Allen have raised the flag. Earlier, the Seahawks retired the #12 jersey on December 15, 1984 as a tribute to their fans.^[48] Before their Super Bowl win, the Seahawks ran onto the field under a giant 12th Man flag.
In September 1990, Texas A&M filed, and was later granted, a trademark application for the "12th Man" term, based on their continual usage of the term since the 1920s. In January 2006, Texas A&M filed suit against the Seattle Seahawks to protect the trademark and in May 2006, the dispute was settled out of court. In the agreement, which expires in 2016, Texas A&M licensed the Seahawks to continue using the phrase, in exchange for a licensing fee, public acknowledgement of A&M's trademark when using the term, a restriction in usage of the term to seven states in the Northwest United States, and a prohibition from selling any "12th Man" merchandise.^[49][50][51] Once the agreement expires, the Seahawks will continue to be able to use the number "12" but will no longer license the "12th Man" phrase.^[52] In August 2015, the Seahawks have decided to drop their signage of the "12th Man" term and shifted towards referring to their fans as the "12s" instead.^[53]

Traditions

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.^[54] Beginning in 2004, the Seahawks introduced their drum line, the Blue Thunder. The group plays at every home game as well as over 100 events in the Seattle community.

Team owners

• The Nordstrom family: 1976–1988
• Ken Behring & Ken Hofmann: 1988–1996
• Paul Allen: 1997–present

Radio and television

Map of radio affiliates (lower 48 and Canada).

Map of radio affiliates (Alaska).

As of 2009, the Seahawks' flagship station is KIRO (AM) 710 kHz – KIRO-FM 97.3 MHz. Games are heard on 47 stations in five western states and Canada. Microsoft holds naming rights for the broadcasts for their web search engine under the moniker of the "Bing Radio Network". The current announcers are former Seahawks players Steve Raible (who was the team's color commentator from 1982 to 2003) and Warren Moon. The Raible-Moon regular season pairing has been together since 2004 (during the preseason Moon works for the local television broadcast so the color commentary is split between former Seahawks Paul Moyer, Sam Adkins, and Brock Huard). Pete Gross, who called the games from 1976 until just days before his death from cancer in 1992, is a member of the team's Ring of Honor. Other past announcers include Steve Thomas from 1992 to 1997, Lee Hamilton (also known as "Hacksaw") from 1998 to 1999, and Brian Davis from 2000 to 2003.
Preseason games not shown on national networks were produced by Seahawks Broadcasting and televised by KING-TV, channel 5 (and, in 2008, also on sister station KONG-TV since KING, an NBC affiliate, was committed to the Summer Olympics in China). Seahawks Broadcasting is the Emmy Award Winning in-house production and syndication unit for the Seattle Seahawks. Curt Menefee (the host of Fox NFL Sunday) has been the Seahawks TV voice since the 2009 preseason. Since the 2012 season, KCPQ-TV, which airs most of the Seahawks regular season games (as the Seattle-Tacoma area's Fox affiliate), is the television partner for the team and has replaced KING 5 as broadcaster for preseason games, while simulcasts of any Seahawks games on ESPN's Monday Night Football or NFL Network's Thursday Night Football airs on either KONG-TV or KZJO.^[55] In addition, any Saturday or Sunday afternoon games broadcast by CBS (with the Seahawks hosting an AFC opponent) will air on local CBS affiliate KIRO-TV.

Radio affiliates

35th Anniversary Team (2010)

The 35th Anniversary team was voted upon by users on Seahawks.com and announced in 2010.^[39]

Seahawks 35th Anniversary Team (2010)
Team	Position	Players
Offense	Quarterback	Matt Hasselbeck (QB) 2001 to 2010
	Running Back	Shaun Alexander (RB) 2000 to 2007 Mack Strong (FB) 1993 to 2007
	Wide Receiver	Steve Largent (WR) 1976 to 1989 Brian Blades (WR) 1988 to 1998 Bobby Engram (WR) 2001 to 2008
	Tight End	John Carlson (TE) 2008 to 2011
	Offensive Line	Walter Jones (T) 1997 to 2010 Howard Ballard (T) 1994 to 1998 Steve Hutchinson (G) 2001 to 2005 Bryan Millard (G) 1984 to 1991 Robbie Tobeck (C) 2000 to 2006
Defense	Defensive Line	Jacob Green (DE) 1980 to 1992 Michael Sinclair (DE) 1991 to 2001 Cortez Kennedy (DT) 1990 to 2000 Joe Nash (DT) 1982 to 1996
	Linebacker	Chad Brown (OLB) 1997 to 2004 Rufus Porter (OLB) 1988 to 1994 Fredd Young (ILB) 1984 to 1987 Lofa Tatupu (MLB) 2005 to 2010
	Cornerback	Marcus Trufant (CB) 2003 to 2012 Dave Brown (CB) 1976 to 1986 Shawn Springs (NB) 1997 to 2003
	Safety	Kenny Easley (SS) 1981 to 1987 Eugene Robinson (FS) 1985 to 1995
Special Teams	Kicker	Norm Johnson (K) 1982 to 1990 Rick Tuten (P) 1991 to 1997
	Returner	Steve Broussard (KR) 1995 to 1998 Nate Burleson (PR) 2006 to 2009
	Coverage	Rufus Porter 1988 to 1994

Retired numbers

Seahawks' retired numbers at CenturyLink Field.

Seattle Seahawks retired numbers
No.	Player	Position	Tenure	No. retired
12	(12th Man)	Fan	1976–present	1984[40]
71	Walter Jones	OT	1997–2009	2010
80 1	Steve Largent	WR	1976–1989	1996
96	Cortez Kennedy	DT	1990–2000	2012[41]

• ¹ Jerry Rice wore No. 80 for his 2004 stint with the Seahawks. According to Rice, the team offered him the jersey number, with Largent's permission.^[42]
• Several other players and individuals related to the team have been honored by their induction into the Seattle Seahawks Ring of Honor

Pro Football Hall of Famers

Seattle Seahawks Pro Football Hall of Famers
No.	Player	Position	Tenure	Inducted
34	Franco Harris	FB	1984	1990
80	Steve Largent	WR	1976–1989	1995
81	Carl Eller	DE	1979	2004
1	Warren Moon	QB	1997–1998	2006
93	John Randle	DT	2001–2003	2010
80	Jerry Rice	WR	2004	2010
96	Cortez Kennedy	DT	1990–2000	2012
71	Walter Jones	OT	1997–2009	2014
45	Kenny Easley	S	1981–1987	2017
Names in bold spent their entire career with the Seattle Seahawks

Players of note

Main article: List of Seattle Seahawks players

Current roster

Seattle Seahawks roster view talk edit
Quarterbacks  2 Trevone Boykin  3 Russell Wilson Running backs 36 Alex Collins 30 J. D. McKissic 38 Tre Madden 22 C. J. Prosise 34 Thomas Rawls Wide receivers 89 Doug Baldwin 15 Jermaine Kearse 16 Tyler Lockett 19 Tanner McEvoy 10 Paul Richardson 13 Tyler Slavin Tight ends 88 Jimmy Graham 87 Ronnie Shields 40 Joe Sommers 81 Nick Vannett		Offensive linemen 68 Justin Britt C 74 George Fant T 63 Mark Glowinski G 53 Joey Hunt C 76 Germain Ifedi G 70 Rees Odhiambo G Defensive linemen 56 Cliff Avril DE 72 Michael Bennett DE 55 Frank Clark DE 99 Quinton Jefferson DT 90 Jarran Reed DT 77 Ahtyba Rubin DT 98 Garrison Smith DT		Linebackers 91 Cassius Marsh OLB 58 Kevin Pierre-Louis OLB 54 Bobby Wagner MLB 50 K. J. Wright OLB Defensive backs 31 Kam Chancellor SS 21 DeAndre Elliott CB 20 Jeremy Lane CB 25 Richard Sherman CB 29 Earl Thomas FS Special teams  9 Jon Ryan P -- Blair Walsh K				Reserve lists -- Christian Briggs TE (Future) 66 Ross Burbank C (Future) -- Rodney Coe DT (Future) -- Perrish Cox CB (Future) 28 Pierre Desir FS (Future) 39 George Farmer RB (Future) 64 Tylor Harris DE (Future) 67 Shaneil Jenkins DT (Future) -- Jamel Johnson WR (Future) 44 Malcolm Johnson FB (Future) 11 Kenny Lawler WR (Future) 85 Marcus Lucas WR (Future) -- Demetrius McCray CB (Future) 62 Robert Myers G (Future) 75 Will Pericak G (Future) -- Rodney Smith WR (Future) 37 Kelvin Taylor RB (Future) Unrestricted FAs  4 Steven Hauschka K 17 Devin Hester RS 92 John Jenkins DT 32 Jeron Johnson SS 33 Kelcie McCray SS 93 Tony McDaniel DT 97 Damontre Moore DE 57 Mike Morgan OLB 44 Marcel Reece FB 78 Bradley Sowell OT 27 Neiko Thorpe CB 46 Will Tukuafu FB 86 Brandon Williams TE 82 Luke Willson TE Restricted FAs 52 Brock Coyle MLB 79 Garry Gilliam OT 41 Dewey McDonald OLB 59 Ronald Powell OLB 35 DeShawn Shead CB 23 Steven Terrell FS Exclusive-Rights FAs 95 Tavaris Barnes DE 42 Brandon Cottom TE 48 Nolan Frese LS 30 Stanley Jean-Baptiste CB 26 Terrence Magee RB 69 Tyler Ott LS 43 Troymaine Pope RB 26 Mohammed Seisay CB 18 Kasen Williams WR Rookies in italics Roster updated February 9, 2017 Depth Chart • Transactions 41 Active, 17 Inactive, 29 FAs → AFC rosters → NFC rosters
AFC East BUF MIA NE NYJ North BAL CIN CLE PIT South HOU IND JAX TEN West DEN KC LAC OAK

Seasons and overall records

Main article: List of Seattle Seahawks seasons

As of the end of the 2015 season, the Seattle Seahawks had competed in 40 NFL seasons, dating back to their expansion year of 1976. The team has compiled a 315–313 record (15–14 in the playoffs) for a .502 winning percentage (.517 in the playoffs). Seattle has reached the playoffs in 15 separate seasons, including in the 2005 season when they lost Super Bowl XL to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the 2013 season when they defeated the Denver Broncos to win Super Bowl XLVIII, and the 2014 season when they lost Super Bowl XLIX to the New England Patriots. In the 2010 season, the Seahawks became the first team in NFL history to earn a spot in the playoffs with a losing record (7–9, .438) in a full season; this was by virtue of winning the division. The Seahawks would go on to defeat the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round, becoming the first team ever to win a playoff game with a losing record. Until Week 7 of the 2016 season, the Seahawks had never recorded a tied game in their history.

Logos and uniforms

When the Seahawks debuted in 1976, the team's logo was a stylized royal blue and forest green osprey's head based on Northwestern tribal art.^[32] The helmet and pants were silver while the home uniforms were royal blue with white, blue and green arm stripes. The road uniform was white with blue and green arm stripes. Black shoes were worn for the first four seasons, one of the few NFL teams that did in the late 1970s. They then changed to white shoes in 1980.^[33]
In 1983, coinciding with the arrival of Chuck Knox as head coach, the uniforms were updated slightly. The striping on the arms now incorporated the Seahawks logo, and the TV numbers moved onto the shoulders. Helmet facemasks changed from gray to blue. Also, the socks went solid blue at the top, and white on bottom.^[34] In the 1985 season, the team wore 10th Anniversary patches on the right side of their pants. It had the Seahawks logo streaking through the number 10. Starting in the 1989 NFL season, jerseys were no longer sand-knit. In 1994, the year of the NFL's 75th Anniversary, the Seahawks changed the style of their numbering to something more suitable for the team; Pro Block from then until 2001. That same year, the Seahawks wore a vintage jersey for select games resembling the 1976–82 uniforms. However the helmet facemasks remained blue. The logos also became sewn on instead of being screen-printed. In 2000, Shaun Alexander's rookie year and Cortez Kennedy's last, the Seattle Seahawks celebrated their 25th Anniversary; the logo was worn on the upper left chest of the jersey. In 2001, the Seahawks switched to the new Reebok uniform system still in their current uniforms, but it would be their last in this uniform after the season ended. Previously, the team's uniforms were made by Wilson, Wilson/Staff, Russell Athletics, Logo Athletics, and Puma.

Seattle Seahawks uniform combinations, 2002–2011. A green alternate jersey was used, but only for one game of the 2009 season.

In March 1, 2002, to coincide with the team moving to the NFC as well as the opening of Seahawks Stadium (which would later be renamed Qwest Field, then CenturyLink Field), both the logo and the uniforms were heavily redesigned. The Wordmark was designed by Mark Verlander and the logo was designed by NFL Properties in-house design team. The colors were modified to a lighter "Seahawks Blue", a darker "Seahawks Navy" and lime green piping. The helmets also were changed from silver to the lighter "Seahawks Blue" color after a fan poll was conducted. Silver would not be seen again until 2012. The logo artwork was also subtly altered, with an arched eyebrow and a forward-facing pupil suggesting a more aggressive-looking bird. At first, the team had planned to wear silver helmets at home and blue helmets on the road, but since NFL rules forbid the use of multiple helmets, the team held the fan poll to decide which color helmet would be worn. The team had usually worn all blue at home and all white on the road since 2003, but late in the 2009 season, the Seahawks wore the white jersey-blue pants combo. The blue jersey and white pants combo has been worn for only one regular season game, the 2005 season opener at the Jacksonville Jaguars, while the white jersey and blue pants combination has not been worn regularly since late in the 2002 season, with the exception of late in the 2009 season. In 2009, the Seahawks once again wore the white jersey and blue pants combination for road games against Minnesota (November 22), St. Louis (November 29), Houston (December 13) and Green Bay (December 27).
The Seahawks wore their home blue jerseys during Super Bowl XL despite being designated as the visitor, since the Pittsburgh Steelers, the designated home team, elected to wear their white jerseys.
Since the Oakland Raiders wore their white jerseys at home for the first time ever in a game against the San Diego Chargers on September 28, 2008, the Seahawks are currently the only NFL team to have never worn their white jerseys at home.^[35]

Seahawks players wearing green jerseys in 2009.

On September 27, 2009, the Seahawks wore lime green jerseys for the first time, paired with new dark navy blue pants in a game against the Chicago Bears. The jerseys matched their new sister team, the expansion Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer who wear green jerseys with blue pants. On December 6, 2009, the Seahawks wore their Seahawks blue jersey with the new dark navy blue pants for the first time, in a game against the San Francisco 49ers. The Seahawks broke out the same combo two weeks later against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and two weeks after that in the 2009 regular season finale against the Tennessee Titans. In December 2009, then-coach Jim Mora announced that the new lime green jerseys were being retired because the team did not win in them, because he liked the home jerseys better, and added that the home jersey is a better match for the navy pants.^[36] In the same press conference, he stated that the new navy pants "felt better" on players as opposed to the Seahawks blue pants. For the 2010 season, Seattle returned to the traditional all "Seahawks Blue" at home and all white on the road.

Russell Wilson wearing the 2012 Seahawks home uniform.

On April 3, 2012, Nike, which took over as the official uniform supplier for the league from Reebok, unveiled new uniform and logo designs for the Seahawks for the 2012 season. The new designs incorporate a new accent color, "Wolf Grey", and the main colors are "College Navy" and "Action Green". The uniforms incorporate "feather trims", multiple feathers on the crown of the helmet, twelve feathers printed on the neckline and down each pant leg to represent the "12th Man", referring to the team's fans.^[3][37] The Seahawks have three different jersey colors: navy blue, white, and an alternate grey jersey. The Seahawks will have three different pants: navy blue with green feathers, gray with navy blue feathers, and white with navy blue feathers. Their new logo replaces the Seahawk blue with wolf grey. Altogether, there are nine (9) different uniform combinations possible.
The Seahawks wore their Nike home blue jerseys for the first regular season game on September 16, 2012 against the Dallas Cowboys. The uniform Marshawn Lynch wore in that game is preserved at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.^[38] On September 9, 2012, the Seahawks wore their Nike white away jerseys for the first regular season game against the Arizona Cardinals; on October 14, 2012, with the Carolina Panthers wearing white at home, they wore their blue jerseys with gray pants (and would do so again against the Miami Dolphins seven weeks later); and on December 16, 2012, they wore their Alternate Wolf Grey jerseys for the first time against the Buffalo Bills.

Headquarters and training camps

During the Seahawks' first ten seasons (1976–85), 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 (1986–96), 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 (92,000 sq yd) Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC) on August 18 for the final week of training camp. The new facility, adjacent to Lake Washington in Renton, has four full-size practice fields: three natural grass outdoors and one FieldTurf indoors.^[31]

Denver Broncos

From the 1980s to the 2002 league realignment, the Denver Broncos were a major rival for the Seahawks. With John Elway, the Broncos were one of the best teams in the NFL, going 200–124–1^[29] overall, and were 32–18 against the Seahawks. Since 2002, Seattle has won one of three interconference meetings, and the teams met in Super Bowl XLVIII on February 2, 2014, where the Seahawks won 43–8.^[30]

Super Bowl appearances

Seahawks 2013 Championship Ring

Season	Super Bowl	Coach	Location	Stadium	Opponent	Result	Record
2005	XL	Mike Holmgren	Detroit	Ford Field	Pittsburgh Steelers	L 10–21	15–4
2013	XLVIII	Pete Carroll	East Rutherford, New Jersey	MetLife Stadium	Denver Broncos	W 43–8	16–3
2014	XLIX	Pete Carroll	Glendale, Arizona	University of Phoenix Stadium	New England Patriots	L 24–28	14–5
Total Super Bowls won: