Too bad the Seahawks don't have a domed stadium to play in. Oh. Wait.

I just came very close to being struck by lightening two times on the way home. Scary feeling.

So are we. Modernity is a sorry place/space.

That's what I said when I asked a couple guys at Uwajimaya what the score was. (I spent my afternoon playing tourist.) A rain delay for a football game?

Suck it. Sissies rule.

I love that this is as close to sports coverage the Stranger gets, other than writing fanfiction about our non-existent basketball and hockey teams XD

@7

Except for all the hockey and soccer stuff.

@4
I was at the YMCA today working out with my personal trainer. Afterwards we were all hot and sweaty, we went to the locker room. When we stepped into the steamy shower area, I asked a couple guys hosing down next us, "what's the score?" That's when one of them stared at me hard with his dreamy blue eyes, along with a groin that was blessed generously in length and girth. he stared at me and said, "Uwantamaya dick?"

@9, that's hot.

@ 1 But it was a dump.

I was saying this at the bar I was watching it at!
It's those wussie refs.

And I'm pretty sure I just heard the fans at the Clink. From my apartment on Capitol Hill. Good job, 12th Man.

Yeah, tough guys play through lightning. I can only imagine the outrage if Russell Wilson was killed by a lightning bolt. Game in Tampa was also delayed by lightning today.

@2: It's spelled lightning.

The way Chicago Fan writes, with a tad more something, he could sound almost exactly how Chris Collinsworth talks.

Can someone explain to me why we get SLOG posts on American football but nothing about actual football?

No one besides an overweight suburban and/or midwest subset of American males gives a shit about American football. As Bethany Jean Clement once said, "All the beer in the world couldn't make football interesting." I say all this as the former linebacker, fullback and captain of my high school American football team.

Real football, on the other hand, (or "soccer", to use a term that might better resonate with the mentally impaired among you), is the world's sport. It's not an arbitrary preference - the game is, by every objective measure, superior to American football. It appeals to every demographic, including The Stranger's hipster readership. (None of the people at the Seahawks game live within Seattle city limits, nor have they heard of The Stranger.) I have yet to ride in a cab driven by an immigrant who wasn't conversant in the sport. And it's one of the few games that can be as exciting when played by women as played by men.

More importantly, Seattle's awesome football team (Sounders) and their awesome supporters are getting the attention of the rest of the world. We are building a football dynasty here, one that is poised to trounce the larger media markets of LA, NY, Dallas, and the Bay Area. The Sounder's average attendance is the best in the US, and is better than many of the best European teams.

Seattle is, once again, doing its own thing and leading the way the forward, making its mark on the country and the world (with younger brother Portland tagging along). If you don't believe me, then talk to Fnarf.

Dear The Stranger - get on it!!

seandr, I doubt it's anything to do with editorial decisions. If someone with Slog posting rights becomes a Sounders fan, we'll get posts, but not before.

@15, I am a 6' 125 lb musician who lives in the center of north cap hill and i quite enjoy American Football. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Fuck you, Bill Savage. The Seahawks are going 19-0. Your Bears are merely a tiny speedbump on our way to the Lombardi Trophy.

Also, the Cubs are terrible. You can stop posting now.

@15, I'm a 30-ish, relatively fit urban guy who gives quite a shit about American football. My wife loves it too. You dig your sport, I'll dig mine. Why the need to say yours is better?

@16: I doubt it's anything to do with editorial decisions.

Oh, I know, it's a blind spot, not a conspiracy. Still, take a look at what's happening in your blind spot!

@17: Ok, let me rephrase that - "No one besides an overweight suburban and/or midwest subset of American males, and that one skinny dude on North Capitol Hill, gives a shit about American football."

@McBomber: Why the need to say yours is better?

If your "sport" hadn't misappropriated its name from mine, and if The Stranger wasn't completely missing the boat, there'd be no need for me to call attention to American football's inferiority. I'd simply ignore it like I do other esoteric games such as Cricket and Jai alai.

In any case, if you can find any amusement in watching a bunch of indistinguishable, brain-damaged, steroid-farmed mutants colliding with each other, it's certainly not my intention to spoil your fun.

Ban sports

I like soccer, but can not bring myself to watch men's soccer anymore, since it has just become a contest about who can cheat and fake injuries better than the other team. I just can't believe how much cheating and flopping there is.

Women's soccer is great though. They actually try to outplay their opponents instead of outcheating them. Makes for a much better game.

Oh, and nothing is stupider than claiming that my game of agitating a bag of wind on a grass field is better than your game of agitating a bag of wind on a grass field. Anyone who seriously makes these types of value judgements is a complete idiot and tool.

http://i.imgur.com/x6bMyJt.jpg

Looks like First Hill got hit, thats close and when lightning gets that close, yeah they do suspend the game. Nobody cares about wind, rain or snow during a game.

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1.21 gigawatts!

you know what other sports get delayed for lightning? every other one. get up and go do something else for an hour. i made dinner. it's not hard.

@22: shut up vegan.

@22 - Footballs are made from leather. Beautiful, sweet, supple, taken-from-cows leather. They use many of them in every game and then throw them away. And they grind those cows up and make chili and burgers out of them and serve them to football fans at the games. Suck it, vegan.

Time for a sitcom:

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As the new:

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@ 18, LOL. Seahawks fans are full of themselves lately.

@ seandr, if only I could post back to Fnarf's etymological lesson on football.

seandr, good god you have an inferiority complex.

I thought the roof was able to close? I guess I am wrong again. I always get that mixed up between the two stadiums.

@25 is correct. All sports delay for lightning storms. I'm not sure if the NFL rule is the same as the MLS one -- half an hour for a strike anywhere within five miles -- or even if that rule is from the league and not the stadium authority, but it's bound to be similar. It was nothing to do with rain at all.

The best part of the noise record is that bogus "scientist" the other day claiming to have "calculated" the amount of noise 67,000 people could possibly make, using ludicrously low values for each person (67 dB), and coming up with a truly stupid 116 dB for the maximum (i.e., an unmuffled motorcycle). I'm pretty sure I can peg 116 myself (I am very, very loud).

But NFL audiences just grunt and bellow meaningless noise; soccer fans sing. Much more fun. Soccer audiences also don't have four friggin' hours in which to get plastered; those Seahawks crowds scare me, even though they're smaller than the maximum soccer crowd (against Portland, a couple of weeks ago) -- that stadium belongs to us now, Seahawks fans.

As for the name of the game, "football" is a generic term used to describe the most popular football code in a particular country -- gridiron (American Football) in the USA, Canadian Football in Canada (different game than NFL), rugby in South Africa, Australian rules, rugby league or rugby union in Australia, depending on where you are, Gaelic football in Ireland, soccer (Association Football) in most but not all other countries (soccer is "calcio", "kick", in Italy, for instance). Even in soccer-playing countries there are areas where rugby is much more popular, and "football" might mean that instead of soccer; conversely, and contrary to the embedded belief of many Britons, the word "soccer" is an English word created in England and still widely used there.

There are many other codes besides those, going back a thousand years and more. All of them are football. Arguing about this word is like arguing about "bike" -- do you mean "bicycle" or "motorcycle"?

What distinguishes soccer from gridiron isn't the name -- it's simply that it's a much better game. That much is obvious. Oh yeah, and soccer doesn't cause massive and universal brain damage, or have a disability rate of 100%. Those Seahawks are literally dying out there for you.

@ 31, they want to die for us, and are well compensated for the privilege. That makes it okay.

@22 Someone who always got picked last and hated to run laps in P.E.

@32, no it doesn't. And they are not adequately informed of the dangers, and indeed it is against the rules to so inform them. The NFL brain-damage scandal has been put off for a few years, but it's far from ended.

Turns out I'm wrong about one thing, though -- the Hawks took their single-game attendance record back yesterday, just a few weeks after giving it up to the Sounders. Something to do with standing-room-only tickets (both numbers are well above the seating capacity of the building). But hey, we're still the only team that's won a trophy in it.

@ 34, consider your chain thoroughly yanked.

@31 Hey there's a special tool they make that can help you climb back out of your own ass. If you want to sing go karaoke, you fop. You trophy is meaningless and would be non-existant if not for seed money from Lamar Hunt, a gridiron football man so you should lick the nuts of every Kansas City Chiefs fan you meet.