As you are probably vaguely aware, the Seattle Seahawks refer to their fans as the 12th Man. Of course, this is completely idiotic, but more on that in a moment.
There’s all kinds of 12th Man nonsense, like a flag that gets raised before every Seattle home game, all kinds of Seahawks gear with a 12 on it, and, well, that’s about all I can think of because this is all completely inconsequential to me.
Here’s a brief history lesson, which also illustrates why I have zero respect for Seattle’s 12th Man BS.
The 12th Man didn’t even originate with the Seahawks. It was born in College Station, Texas, home of the Texas A&M Aggies, where the football team started the 12th Man tradition in 1922. The phrase has long been trademarked, which resulted in A&M suing the Seahawks for using the 12th Man mark back in 2006.
They settled, but now the Seahawks have to license the use of the 12th Man from Texas A&M.
Yes, you read that correctly. The Seattle Seahawks license the name they call their fans from a school in the Big 12. They are just that unoriginal. It’s as if something like this happened one day in the Seahawks front office…
“Alright guys. Our football team sucks. We have no history or tradition of our own. Our fans are a bunch of face painters with no identity. Our mascot sucks. We desperately need something for these people to latch onto, to make them feel as if they are real football fans and our organization is important. What do you got?”
“Hey, why don’t we just steal the 12th Man from Texas A&M?”
“PERFECT!”
So there you go. The Seattle Seahawks 12th Man is born.
Unfortunately for those clowns, the 12th Man can have another meaning entirely after Super Bowl 49. All you have to do is throw a dash in there in between the 1 and 2 and you now have the Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl record.
Thanks to Christopher for sending this in.
They’re1-3. Don’t forget Holmgren’s loss to the Steelers. Come on, man. You’re better than that.
1-2
The 12th man is stupid, the Hawks pump crowd noise into their stadium which is specifically designed to amplify the sushi and latte breathed howls of their fairweather fanbase.
Just a head’s up Texas A&M is part of the SEC now.
I think the 12th man need to step up and take responsibility for the bad call on 2nd and goal. If they feel they are responsible for wins and it’s a team sport, then they should also take some of the blame for the loss
Um left shark, what is their third super bowl loss? Sunday night and against the steelers are the only ones that come to mind
1 win 2 losses is 1-2
Come on left shark!
I wish Lambeau field were louder. Because the Seahawks were pathetic for so many years and only recently became succesful, they have a young, rowdy fanbase full of bandwagon jumpers. Packer fans include a lot of 60-80 year old season ticket holders who don’t even bother to get up for the wave.
I’d rather have those 60-80 year olds, that have been Packer fans for decades.
The bandwagon Seahawk “fans” will disappear in time. They will leave the bandwagon when the Seahawks start losing , as quick as they hopped on the bandwagon.
Packer fans are the best fans in the world of sports.
Apparently I can’t dance OR do math. Doh!
Jacksonville Jaguars will be featuring the ceremonial dotting of the i during pregame festivities.
Seattle has a bogus, plagiarized tradition befitting an organization of questionable class: Baldwin and Defecategate, Irvin the Brawler, Sherman the Yapper, Lynch the Punk, and Carroll the Clueless.
Looking forward to their visit to Lambeau…season opener?
Whatever did Trent Dilfer do to get his Seattle jersey retired? That must have been where he invented QBR. At least he was the designated snap gatherer in Baltimore.
Legion of Boom?
More like…Legion of Poop
good one, Bob! also, legion of “Goop”? as in gold tinted spray gunk to cover up your “cheat cleats”?
but here is another version of the 12th man, i.e., when a star has split personalities and becomes two separate persons, and the off field personality conflicts with and detracts from the other, e.g.
http://www.tmz.com/2015/02/02/warren-sapp-arrested-arizona-super-bowl-soliciting-a-prostitute/
altho the above example is a retired player, i think it serves as a good example of what can happen when nfl stars get too much fame and money and no longer need fans, winning, work ethic, etc. i.e. the “favre” syndrome: abandoning motivation to make their fat paycheck the old fashioned way: by EARNING it.
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/244837-seahawks-fans-upload-agonized-reactions-super-bowl-theyre-compiled-one-hilarious-montage/
This couldn’t have happened to a better fan base. I wish I could drink their tears.
Words alone cannot express my gratitude for you sharing this.
Watching this, I could only imagine how much fun it would have been to be at these gatherings, handing out loaded handguns so these fucks could adequately express their grief.
For the the two, snot-globbering pieces of shit, especially the fat fuck blubbering on the shitter, I would have liked to have been able to offer that gash a hari-kiri knife so he could disembowel himself and at least have a chance at restoring some sense of honor.
The other fuck mewling on the deck, his buddy ought to have drilled him about three times in the fucking ear.
But the very best part of this was realizing that all these videos were made with the intention of showing the “1-2’s” celebrating their moment of triumph, only to see it dissolve into the gut-wrenching agony of their team’s now most-legendary, bed-shitting.
The only real disappointment I had with the outcome of the Super Bowl was that the Seahawks team plane didn’t go down in a fiery crash on the way back to Shitattle.
My personal favorite clip is of the first group of dudes all chanting “Beast Mode” then after the pick the guy in the Wilson jersey starts clapping and even fist pumps before realizing it was actually an INT. Pure gold.
SEC, thank you very much
1-3…. hahaha! I guess you don’t know much about sports. Yes! The Seahawks Super record is 1-2. 1 win and 2 losses. Duh…