Originally Posted by Cogf16

Wow, what a game but a historically bad call by Seattle on the 1 yd line!!!
So here's why I was really rooting against the Seahawks (sorry Denny!)

I did a Seahawks charter last year, preseason, probably week 2. Middle of a 4 or 5 day, laying over downtown Seattle. First off SEA ops calls me in my room midmorning, asking me if we could meet with Charter coord like an hour and a half before push! I politely decline and tell them we'll be there about an hour before and it would be fine. So we meet and they proceed to tell me EVERYTHING the Seahawks and Coach Carroll want and don't want! No PA's, no "Go Seahawks", no autographs etc (which is fine) but then they tell me that Coach Carroll thinks that "once everyone is one, we should leave", so could we please leave at least 20 minutes early? Yeah, you might say I was growing weary of this flight already.
But okay, so we preflight and do our best to leave early etc. Now I'm a big NFL fan so I want to see the team as they come on the airplane. I'm standing in the cockpit door as they board and Coach Carroll is the first guy on, sitting in seat 1A. He walks by me with his head down, saying nothing to me or the F/A. The rest of the team, coaches, and staff board and many say Hi or at least make eye contact.

Sure enough, we push 20 early and fly down to SAN. On climbout, F/A calls and says Coach C wants to know if that's Mt Rainier on the left. I was this close to saying, "tell Coach Carroll that I'm not supposed to make any announcements" (petty I know!)
So we land in SAN, gate in 20 early, and you know I'm in the door as the team deplanes. Sure enough, Carroll is the first one off and does the same thing, head down, says nothing like "nice flight, thanks for getting us hear early" NOTHING. Again, the rest of the guys deplane and many make nice comments to me and the crew.

As you can tell, it really rubbed me the wrong way and I have been rooting against him and his team ever since. Would it have been so difficult to just acknowledge me and say a quick word or two? And no, I don't think he was immersed in his thoughts as it was early preseason and they didn't play until the next day.

Rant over, but told this story twice at the game party tonight.