How did you first get interested in football?

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Not the Seahawks specifically, unless that was part of the process.. but how did you first get into it?

For me it was 1st grade of elementary school.. there was an older kid, a friend of mine who I kind of idolized. He was 1 year older, which in first grade seems like a lot. Anyway, he and his other friends played touch football everyday at recess and even before school if they got there. So if I wanted to hang around my friend, I had to play. I had no idea what I was doing at first.. even though Id watched it already on TV some with my father..but playground 2 hand touch football had very little in common with what I saw on the tv except the ball and throwing/catching... Anyway, I was terrible..and I even remember cheating once because I was terrible. On offense they wouldnt throw me the ball much because I couldnt catch well yet.. on bad weather days we played in an old covered abandoned hangar ttype building next to the school. And after one play I hid behind a pillar type thing..so when the next play started, I started in the end zone. The QB threw me the ball and I caught the touchdown. The other team immediately called out the cheat, and my team MUST have known, but they ignored it. Didnt feel good ..but the touchdown did.. I was hooked. And still am.
 
Being in rural Canada there was no football program in school. We played tackle football in the snow and some flag football in high school. Mostly started getting into it after playing video games like tecmo bowl through to madden. Watched a lot of cfl in the 80s and 90s until cable TV started showing nfl games. I played and watched a ton of hockey until the nhl started to suck and thats when the nfl took over as my main sport to watch.
 
I don't really remember. I'm pretty sure it was sometime during the 87 season when I was 9 years old. Before that I knew of the Seahawks (and Mariners), I'd heard my dad mention them before, but something happened that season where I suddenly found myself interested in watching the games, and that was that. Wouldn't miss another game for the rest of my life except for very rare occasions. I just loved everything about the team; the name, the colors, the Kingdome, the players, the coaches, etc. I think the hype around The Boz probably helped take my obsession to the next level. And after watching my first Super Bowl that year (Denver vs Washington in XXII) professional football became my favorite pastime. Watching, playing, reading about it in the paper, etc. I couldn't get enough. I suppose not much has changed haha. I used to keep a binder where I logged schedules and stats and draft results. I had one for every season from probably 1988 to 1993 or 94 when I sort of grew out of that with the age of the internet and the instant availability of that type of info. Before that, I couldn't WAIT for the Monday paper so I could read the stats and look at the standings. Good times.
 
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Watched the Redskins beat the Dolphins in the Superbowl, and for some reason got hooked of Theisman and Riggins and Art Monk and the hogs. diehard Skins fan until I went to college in Bellingham and the Seahawks were the only thing on the TV, so I warmed uo to them in the 90s.
 
Watched the Redskins beat the Dolphins in the Superbowl, and for some reason got hooked of Theisman and Riggins and Art Monk and the hogs. diehard Skins fan until I went to college in Bellingham and the Seahawks were the only thing on the TV, so I warmed uo to them in the 90s.
Man.. thats so funny reading that.. I disliked the Theisman and Monk in particular. As a Largent guy Monk actually offended me.. it was a different era, but I use to hate how Monk started the 100 catch season think when Largent's best ever was probably 76 catches.. but Largents were all super legit and Art Monk ran 100 9 yard dig routes.. It drove me to anger in a way only a pre teen could be angry, when things like that mattered.
 
We played all sports growing up. We would play "Kill the man with the ball" in our side yard for hours. When I was 14 I was the smallest kid on the block. In my 15th year I grew over 6 inches, as did some of the other kids. Suddenly it hurt to get hit and so I quit playing football. Played mostly baseball and later competed in disc sports. I was the Western Canadien Open Disc Golf Champion in 1989. I played quite a bit of Disc Golf back then and find it amazing that now someone could make $105k in a year.


Back in 1989 I won 250 Canadien dollars. That was big money to me back then, :)
 
Multi-generational football family. Dad was a scholarship player, I was a walk-on, eldest son a scholarship player. It's in our DNA.
 
Prison sentences and methamphetamine is in my DNA. I'm jealous.

I honestly don't remember a time I wasn't obsessed with football. I had an almanac when I was 4, which was nothing but stats and demographics, and the pages were literally falling out by the time I was 6. I just obsessively poured through it. 6-7 is when I started calling sports radio shows with my 🔥 taeks. I don't remember that but my relatives do.

My emotional attachment to football is on par with the one with my children. That's not hyperbole at all. It's just always been one of my loves and passions.
 
Football had always been my third sport. I probably started watching religiously in 2005 although I've been paying attention since the early 90s. I really got into it more in 2008 when the Sonics left. I played two years in high school but I was hyper-focused on baseball. Football has surpassed basketball though and a lot of it has to do with the enjoyability of fantasy. It's the perfect sport for fantasy because you're not setting lineups daily and can be a bit more casual.

Only in the last few years have I really gotten into watching tape of college players and understanding the game to a higher level. Probably just getting older and I've given up changing the world.
 
yes.. OMG.. for a few years I thought fantasy baseball would be fun and a way to learn the game better.. tried for the first time last year.. holy hell... between setting rosters every day and how little positions mean because Yahoo lists players available for any position theyve ever spent an inning at seemingly it was just chaos. Added Ty France just before the season and that one more made the league think I knew what I was doing..but within weeks I was on cruise control. Never again unless its with one of the rule options that only require a once a week roster adjsutment.

Fantasy has really educated a lot of football fans. My best friend was only ever a casual football fan at best.. trying to talk Seahawks even was sort of a chore because hed say something showing old info... but once he started playing fantasy suddenly he was super knowledgeable. It really is the ideal fit .
 
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