The Seahawks Have Ruined Super Bowl Week For Me

I've been a Seahawks fan since they came into the league in 1976, but I've been a professional football fan my entire life. I used to always look forward to the Super Bowl each year, and actually enjoyed all the hype leading up to it. That all changed last year.

As a fan of the 1976-2004 Seahawks, you could always enjoy the Super Bowl. I mean it usually occurred a good month after the last meaningful Seahawk game, and since your team was usually mathematically eliminated from the playoffs sometime before Christmas, it didn't really matter who was playing in the Super Bowl, you could psyched about the game.

Then came the 2005 Seahawks, and my expectations have been irreparably changed forever.

The 2005 Seahawks not only brought the first Super Bowl birth to Seattle, but also brought the realization of three decades of hope and optimism to millions of Seahawks fans around the globe.

Last year I watched every minute of NFL coverage between the final gun of the NFC Championship game and the opening kick-off of Super Bowl XL in Detroit. And what I couldn't watch, I TiVo-ed. Now it's hard to get excited about the big game when my team is not participating in it.

I'm not sure how Cowboy, Niner and Raiders fans have dealt with these feelings all these years.