I just want the Hawks and Niners to get through next weekend and set up the NFC Championship game. It would be epic.
Not me bro, was born in the bay area, dads a lifelong niner fan. When you run into a lifelong Seattle fan lemme know
You Seattle fans are all about recent (because your history sucks).......niners won the last meeting, so niners are better? Science.
Yeah, I might be mixing it up with other comments made about the city on here and other places. But, I still don't get the feeling that they are 'jammed down our throats'. Like it or not, you live in Seattle's market. Until Portland gets a team (MLB or NFL), it is in the Seattle market. Growing up, I wasn't really a fan of either (older cousin was a fan of the A's and I had no team I rooted for in NFL), but I never got mad that they were on TV. Did you get mad when the Blazers were on TV during our crappy years? Or the Ducks in the early 90s (since I assume you're a Ducks fan)? Anyway, that is a different topic, so I'll drop it. Back to the playoffs, that Indy comeback was pretty epic, but I think KC just ran out of gas using all those backups. At some point, the talent drop off is too big to keep up (especially when going against someone like Luck who can ball). To a lesser extent, that seemed to be what happened to Green Bay too (although if SF got TDs rather than FGs to start, it would have been game over by the 2nd quarter). San Diego really surprised me. I went out and got lunch and did some grocery shopping during the game. It was awesome. The only place that wasn't empty was the Chinese grocery store. It's crazy that we get black outs down here when it seems like the whole city does love the team.
The good thing about living in Southern Oregon is you actually are in Niners and Raiders territory, no Seacocks jammed down our throats.
You didn't get mad that they were in on TV because you lived in Seattle, no? Even if I wasn't a Blazers fan, I would understand because I live in Portland. I live in the city that they represent. Seattle is not only a different city, but it's in a completely different state. Why should I support the Seahawks over the Niners, or the Raiders, or even the Vikings? We live in Portland. Our two cities have had a rivalry going since the 1800's, not just athletically but economically and geographically. Portland and Seattle have had some heated rivalries between the Ducks/Huskies and the Blazers/Sonics, so I grew up hating the teams from your city. Hate one Seattle team, hate them all. I have been a Niners fan since I was 11. I watched them because they were on a lot, and because I've always really liked the city. The Seahawks weren't really a problem until they moved into the NFC and subsequently bumped virtually all 49ers broadcasts off of Fox. That was when I started really hating that team. Not only are they now in the same division, but their fans are beyond obnoxious about the whole "12th man" bullshit, and I have to go to a sports bar if I want to watch my team. I couldn't care less about the Mariners. Baseball is boring and that team is horrible.
I was born and raised in NEP. I grew up rooting for the Blazers and Ducks. I didn't move to Seattle until I went off to school. I chose UW over Oregon since it seemed like 75% of my HS went there, wanted to live in a bigger city than Eugene and picked it based on academics, not athletics (though now root for UW, but still like to see UO do well). You shouldn't have to root for the Seahawks, but the fact is most of the city/area does. Why would state lines determine that you shouldn't root for them? If you grew up in the Couv, would it have made that much more sense to root for them? They are still by far the closest team and like it or not, Portland is very similar to Seattle. I was an A's fan when I was younger so I was in the same TV situation growing up and it didn't bother me because I knew I lived in the Mariners region.
So....... Portland was SF's market until the late-70's because no teams were in Seattle. Then Portland becomes Seattle's market because we're closer to Seattle. That's the where the bullshit begins, and continues today. The whole territory thing is ultimately bullshit to me. I mean, I get they have to choose which game they are going to broadcast. But to put us as Seattle territory is lame. Nobody even cared about either Seattle team until they had a little success. When they suck, they pretty much become irrelevant again, even to their own fans. I think the major sports should allow neutral markets and play the best game from the closest teams, personally. I mean, think back to Week 17. There were a lot of local 49er fans gathered at sports bars to watch the Niners game on one of the NFL packages. Nobody gave a rat's ass about an otherwise meaningless Seattle game. SF was at AZ, where AZ was fighting for a playoff spot (sucks that 6 teams make the playoffs, and the Packers didn't even have a top-6 record in the NFC yet still made the playoffs).
Got proof of this? I totally disagree, especially in regards to the Mariners. The Seahawks..... well, they're good right now, so there may be more Seahawks fans in the area than in many years, but it's no landslide.
Well, I haven't surveyed anyone, so no, I don't have proof. But growing up, most of my friends were fans of the M's and Griffey (I'm a year or two younger than you). There were some Cubs or Yankees fans too, but no one was a fan of the bay area teams. I have no clue what it's like now since I don't live there, so maybe you're seeing more 49ers fans.
Probably because this year is what matters right now. #1 seed and looking really good. Keep worrying about the last 5 years though
That's because the only chance SF has of winning vs Seattle is in SF. When played in Seattle the games aren't close. SF gets stomped and shit on.
I knew very few M's fans. Everybody loved Griffey, and several people jumped on the bandwagon when they were good (I even rooted for them as one of my AL teams) because they already had following for Griffey (Griffey was THE player everyone wanted to be). After a quick peak, the bandwagon seemed to slowly empty, and it really died as soon as they sucked or Griffey was gone, the bandwagon. I swear, at least 1/3rd of my FB "friends" are Giants. And these are all people I went to HS with (I'm not big into FB-ing, so it's mostly all people from HS). Here in the Portland Area. Maybe one or two M's fans. By the same token, that same group of HS friends..... maybe Seattle is the most popular team now, but not by much. And several of those friends jumped on the wagon in the last few years. If you went to school in the Portland Area, and you say nobody was a Bay Area sports fan, I'd say you went to a small private school or alternative school (even at the alternative school, you'd probably at least see Raiders gear, fan or not).
You still don't win. A win is a win is a win. You can't win away from Seattle against good teams. So, really, don't get defensive. My hats off to Seattle. Seattle took the best and only possibly path Seattle could take to try to get to the SB: grab the best record and stay the course with your safety blanket. Niners are one terrible call from having HFA (the Saints game). At the time, looked like no big deal. But look at how different things could potentially be.
Being the best team in the NFC is a safety blanket SF's best road win this season is Arizona. Seattle beat Arizona on the road as well, and they also beat Carolina on the road. Two teams with double digit wins. Seattle's just really good
