{"id":15289,"date":"2014-01-17T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T21:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2014\/01\/17\/to-seattle-from-pittsburgh\/"},"modified":"2014-01-17T21:44:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T21:44:04","slug":"to-seattle-from-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/to-seattle-from-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"To Seattle, From Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHey there, Seattle. It&#039;s been a while. Listen, I know we haven&#039;t always seen eye-to-eye. We&#039;ve had our differences. That push-off on Darrell Jackson was iffy, I know. But Jerramy Stevens kept running out of bounds too. I think we can agree that maybe Super Bowl XL wasn&#039;t the best game it could have been. It was some bad football and our team just happened to come out on top.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut listen. This isn&#039;t about 2005. 2005 was a long time ago, and I&#039;d like us to move past it. Let&#039;s bury the hatchet once and for all. I want to extend the olive branch, put our pasts behind us, and start fresh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n\t<br \/>\n\tThis one, right here.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYour Seahawks are still in the playoff race. They&#039;ve made it to the final four. And here&#039;s the thing&#8230; They&#039;re really fun to watch. I like them. Your quarterback is exciting, and it&#039;s easy to root for a guy who was told he&#039;s too small to be successful. Marshawn Lynch is our favorite kind of back here in the Steel City. Your defense is smothering. There&#039;s a lot we can like about the Seahawks. I mean, sure, Pete Carroll is the head coach and I&#039;m not exactly his number one fan, but that&#039;s just a minor detail.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGranted, the rest of the field is comprised of the truly loathsome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n\t<img alt=\"To Seattle, From Pittsburgh\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bloguin.com\/blitzburghblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2014\/01\/5390067_bin[1].jpg\" style=\"width:620px;height:400px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n\tWe&#039;re definitely not rooting for this whiny prima donna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n\t<img alt=\"To Seattle, From Pittsburgh\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bloguin.com\/blitzburghblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2014\/01\/BelichickPats[1].jpg\" style=\"width:550px;height:425px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n\tNor will we support Emporer Palpatine over here, obviously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n\t<img alt=\"To Seattle, From Pittsburgh\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bloguin.com\/blitzburghblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2014\/01\/20131105_110858_john-fox-broncos[1].jpg\" style=\"width:654px;height:416px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n\tJohn Fox&#8230; Well he is actually pretty cool. But he&#039;s going into a playoff game against the Patriots and has Peyton Manning, so we&#039;re assuming he&#039;s already out.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut it&#039;s not about them, either. It&#039;s not [necessarily] about our team also being screwed over by Bill Leavy. It&#039;s about you, Seattle. You&#039;re a cool place. You gave us cool music. You&#039;re one of the chillest cities in America. You&#039;ve got a great football team this year and the future is bright. I want you to win this Super Bowl. I want to see you beat the 49ers and steamroll the AFC Champion in two weeks. You deserve that much. I want to see your Seattle Seahawks hoist their franchise&#039;s first Vince Lombardi Trophy and stand atop the NFL mountain, looking out over all the teams that couldn&#039;t reach the ultimate goal this season.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDo it, Seattle. Win the Super Bowl. And maybe, can&#8230; can we be friends again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there, Seattle. It&#039;s been a while. Listen, I know we haven&#039;t always seen eye-to-eye. We&#039;ve had our differences. 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