Seattle Seahawks vs Dallas Cowboys.

Today was a little more relaxed, we slept in a little later and made our way around downtown to find another great deal on parking ($25). The weather was not nearly as nice as yesterday, about 50 degrees, foggy and a misting rain, a Seattle day that most expect. We went to the Pyramid Brewery for breakfast, actually lunch but Nate would argue breakfast since it was our first meal of the day. Pyramid is a brewery right next to SafeCO (home of the Mariners) and Qwest Field (home of the Seahawks) and its famous for good Hefewiezen beer. Hefeweizen is a beer thats a little smoother and has a slight fruity taste, I’m not a big fan of that kind of beer, which is odd b/c i love most beers. We ate and headed up to the field, the lines to get in were outrageously long but somehow we found the only short one in the stadium and got in within a matter of minutes.

We trekked up the ramp to the 300 section. Thomas said “we are so high we are in the fog,” as he was referencing the surrounding buildings which had their tops hidden in the fog. The Seahawks website says 70% of the seats are covered, which we assumed meant ours would be as well, but us being the cheapskates were in that 30% that was not covered. Honestly, who designs a stadium with only two thirds of a roof, in a city where it rains 186 days of the year!? At least make it a retractable roof like your obviously smarter neighbors, the Seattle Mariners.

So we are sitting in our uncovered seats getting misted on for the first quarter, when I get up to go to the bathroom and head to get dry for a few minutes. Well, luckily our seats were right on top of a suvinor stand and i wandered in to take a look and see if they had any ponchos. People were streaming into the store right behind me all seemingly looking for ponchos. As some woman was debating whether or not to spend the $7 on the poncho or have a wet ass the rest of the game, i reached over her shoulder and as soon as I put my hand on it she freaked out and ripped it off the shelf. I wasnt planning on taking it from her if she wanted it but I also wasnt going to wait it out as she had the debate in her big noggin. The thought ran through my mind to tackle her Grant Winstrom style and take the poncho from her undecisive butt but I guess the nicer side won and I let it go. The poor lady in the store who was surrounded by wet Seahawks fans was trying to put some more ponchos on the shelf but people were taking them from right out of her box. Well as she reached up with two in her hands, I used my ass to my advantage and boxed out the crowd and then calmly snagged them from her, the last two! Score one for me! I always knew my butt would come in useful other then making a nice cushion and filling out my jeans nicely!

Turns out the ponchos were the best $14 ever invested. It saved us from being miserably soaked as the ran steadily picked up throughout the game, soaking our drunken obnoxious fans in front of us.

The actual game was pretty boring until the last 2 minutes. Dallas scored early and then dominated the Seahawks’ supposedly potent offense for 3 quarters and 13 minutes. Coming down to the last 2 minutes Dallas was up 10-3 and the seahawks got the ball. They proceeded to march down the field as if Dallas decided to take a nap, and promptly scored to tie the game with 35 seconds left. Still plenty of time in the Xbox world, as Thomas put it, referencing the 80-14 ass whipping he gave me the night before playing Madden 2005 which he scored just about every 20 seconds.
Dallas took the kickoff and ran it back a good 30 or so yards to the 40. With 30 seconds left and 2 timeouts, there was plenty of time to get a couple first downs and get the kicker into field goal range or at least take a couple shots and then down it and play for overtime. Well, it seems like Drew Bledsoe missed that day in ‘How to be an NFL Quarterback class’ b/c after 2 incompletions he threw a HORRIBLe pass that was promptly intercepted and returned to the Cowboys 33 yardline with 5 seconds remaing. Seahawks marched their kicker onto the field and he proceeded to knock a 50 yarder through the uprights and the Seahawks completed one of the best comebacks ive seen in under 2 minutes. Seahawks 13 Dallas Chokeboys 10!

Qwest Field:
For a new field, I find the construction rather odd, it must have been designed by some pot smoking hippies from Seattle. The conversation went something like this:

Hippie 1: “dood let’s design this stadium with only 40% of a roof”
Hippie 2: “whoa you are blowing my mind, how about we cover all of the upper deck except 2 sections”
Hippie 1: “Totally, it’s not like it rains here much” *munchies*
Hippie 2: “Puff Puff Pass mannnnn”
Hippie 1: “Dood, what if we make one endzone look like a boob with a pasty on it”
Hippie 2: “Awesome! The scoreboard can be the pasty!”

I’m sure the conversation was something like that. And hopefully from my Qwest Field pictures you will get a clue what I am talking about. Another thing is the scoreboad. They had 7 scoreboard but each one only had a piece of the information. THe time on one, Offensive and Defensive stats on others, the actual score on another etc etc, you get the picture. I really would like to hear what the hippie designers of the stadium have to say for its funky construction. So if by some chance, one of those designers reads this, please let me know what the hell you were thinking. I must admit although we were high enough to be eye to eye with the Met Life Blimp pilots we still had a good veiw of the game. And it turned out to be an excellent one.

Pictures here