I said yes to attending a training camp session, however, it is actually the Seahawks Football Fest on August 2nd at Lumen that I am taking the family to. Looks like a great event, it will be my 1st time attending any sort of Hawks practice.
I would have liked to attend training camp, but I could never make the time. the VMAC is awesome and you can easily ride your bike there, which I imagine is more fun than parking offsite and taking a shuttle (and good exercise!).
My wife and I would always attend one game in person, the last game we went to was Dolphins last year.
I don't know what question everyone else got, but mine was "what are UFOs?"
The correct answer is Unidentified Flying Objects. It's a simple acronym.
Being in deep Southwest GA, I try to go to a road game whenever possible. I usually make the 3.5hr trek to ATL because I have some suppliers who have season tix to Falcons or Mercedes-Benz Dome event tix that they'll give me for free. This year, I'm shooting for that AND Jacksonville if I can get cheap tix there. Jax is only 2.5hrs away. Nashville is a great city I have visited before but it's a little too far. Clearly no preseason opportunities. A home game is on the bucket list.
Totally overthought the UFO question. It's why I'm so bad at riddles. But I have seen some weird stuff in the sky on several occasions that I have no reasonable explanations for, so count me in as a believer. Plus, with the people on this planet so intent on ruining it, I kind of need to believe there are beings out there that are smart enough not to do the same thing on theirs.
I have never been to a Seahawk game, or an NFL game for that matter. Shameful I know. In my defense Seattle is 4000 miles away. I'll get there some day. Maybe I can find an alien to go with.
Used to go to training camp when I lived in Wallingford but now living in Oklahoma and just visiting Seattle costs more than living here for 6 months. I focus on just going to 1-3 away games each season. Moon's, Jags and Titans this season just FYI.
Aliens are real. And for those that live in Seattle that don't understand how expensive it is. 6k sq ft, 3 level, 5 bed, 6 bath with pool overlooking lake and sailboats in Oklahoma cost me 400k in 2020.
I was cut off! Since 1983 I have been to every level of games from training camp to regular season to all levels of the playoffs including Super Bowl XLIX. I attended a practice in Portland sometime in the 90’s.
I know that the distance from my house in Portland to the stadium is 190 miles each way. That’s a lot of miles on my cars.
Shall I rise in defense of aliens? Why not, it's off-season and there's time for a long story, right?
Back in the mid-'90s I somehow came to the conclusion that the thing to do was to open an art gallery on Cap Hill. We called it Vox Populi, and the motto over the door read, "Food Rots, Buy Art," which will tell you about how well I ate those years Ah, but it was fun.
We were across the street from a Jaguar dealer, next door to what was apparently a wiccan S&M coffeeshop. Up the street was a vintage clothes store, whose co-owner ended up the lead singer in a band with Nirvana's bass player and Ministry's drummer, plus a tea importer, a lesbian sex toy shop (one of them had an MBA, I shoulda asked her more questions), and a legit Northwest arts gallery that is, I think, still in business.
It was hard to get noticed, much less offend the squares.
Anyway, we decided to do a group show celebrating flying saucers, in honor of the 49th anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's flight at Mount Rainier, during which the phrase was coined. (I didn't think we'd be in business for the 50th. I was right.) I found my way to an AOL abductees board, and tried to talk a couple commercial artists in Pennsylvania into sending work, but they were skittish (and, it turned out, there was another gallery named Vox Populi in Philly, which might have been a problem, too). But I did turn up one abductee artist from...Auburn, I think. Pasty middle-aged guy, showed up, dropped off a sculpture that was kinda driftwoody and kinda not and mostly not anything we could make sense of, but, y'know, he was our token abductee. So we put it out and nobody much noticed, best I recall. At the end of the month the show came down and but he never came by.
Six months later, when I flew up from my "prestige" magazine job in LA to close Vox Pop, he still hadn't shown up to reclaim his sculpture. He didn't answer his phone; maybe it had been disconnected by that point. We had no way to find him, so we left it out by the dumpster, hoping, locked the place up, and went on about our lives.
Yeah. Lived there for 8 years, met my wife there. Went down to work a show every September, but finally quit. I’m tempted by the game, but that’s a tough time to travel in retail.
Week seven, 2006, was my last in-person game. The guard who must not be named was better than our best D-Lineman, and the Vikings won 31-13, thanks in part to a 75'ish yard run through the left side of the O-Line.
My Mother-In-Law was an alien, by the way. And I'm not sure she's really dead, just in a different time zone.
Regarding most recent attendance to a Seahawks game: I really lucked out, as from the beginning of 2010 season through the 2015 season, I had six season tickets together in the lower, overhanging top level. I saw all of the great games, as I only missed a handful of home and playoff games during that six-year span. Man! But, a divorce happened, and that was it, unfortunately.
But oh, those glory years! Hooked me forever, I reckon 😊
I watched someone on YouTube who allegedly knows what they are talking about say something about direct travel between stars being prohibitive because of the relation between space and time and the time elapsed in the home system when returning. But then someone else who also allegedly knew what they were talking about said something about developing the ability to manipulate wormholes, so who knows. I, on the other hand, make no such assertions of knowing what I am talking about.
I said yes to attending a training camp session, however, it is actually the Seahawks Football Fest on August 2nd at Lumen that I am taking the family to. Looks like a great event, it will be my 1st time attending any sort of Hawks practice.
The last time I attended a game in person, Shawn Alexander scored five TDs in the first half!
Get to more games please, mr good luck charm
I would have liked to attend training camp, but I could never make the time. the VMAC is awesome and you can easily ride your bike there, which I imagine is more fun than parking offsite and taking a shuttle (and good exercise!).
My wife and I would always attend one game in person, the last game we went to was Dolphins last year.
I don't know what question everyone else got, but mine was "what are UFOs?"
The correct answer is Unidentified Flying Objects. It's a simple acronym.
Being in deep Southwest GA, I try to go to a road game whenever possible. I usually make the 3.5hr trek to ATL because I have some suppliers who have season tix to Falcons or Mercedes-Benz Dome event tix that they'll give me for free. This year, I'm shooting for that AND Jacksonville if I can get cheap tix there. Jax is only 2.5hrs away. Nashville is a great city I have visited before but it's a little too far. Clearly no preseason opportunities. A home game is on the bucket list.
Cheers!
Totally overthought the UFO question. It's why I'm so bad at riddles. But I have seen some weird stuff in the sky on several occasions that I have no reasonable explanations for, so count me in as a believer. Plus, with the people on this planet so intent on ruining it, I kind of need to believe there are beings out there that are smart enough not to do the same thing on theirs.
I have never been to a Seahawk game, or an NFL game for that matter. Shameful I know. In my defense Seattle is 4000 miles away. I'll get there some day. Maybe I can find an alien to go with.
Hmmm. That UFO chart looks suspiciously like a spinning UFO. Is there something you need to tell us SJ? 👽
Says the "human" with the suspicious profile pic
🤣 human?
Used to go to training camp when I lived in Wallingford but now living in Oklahoma and just visiting Seattle costs more than living here for 6 months. I focus on just going to 1-3 away games each season. Moon's, Jags and Titans this season just FYI.
Aliens are real. And for those that live in Seattle that don't understand how expensive it is. 6k sq ft, 3 level, 5 bed, 6 bath with pool overlooking lake and sailboats in Oklahoma cost me 400k in 2020.
Go Gawks.
I was cut off! Since 1983 I have been to every level of games from training camp to regular season to all levels of the playoffs including Super Bowl XLIX. I attended a practice in Portland sometime in the 90’s.
I know that the distance from my house in Portland to the stadium is 190 miles each way. That’s a lot of miles on my cars.
I have been a
season ticket holder since 1983
https://sports.yahoo.com/video/cole-youngs-rbi-double-021238654.html
... this is a double by Cole Young of the Mariners. You say, What ! ?
but keep watching. me thinks it's worth watching.
That was freaking awesome.
Shall I rise in defense of aliens? Why not, it's off-season and there's time for a long story, right?
Back in the mid-'90s I somehow came to the conclusion that the thing to do was to open an art gallery on Cap Hill. We called it Vox Populi, and the motto over the door read, "Food Rots, Buy Art," which will tell you about how well I ate those years Ah, but it was fun.
We were across the street from a Jaguar dealer, next door to what was apparently a wiccan S&M coffeeshop. Up the street was a vintage clothes store, whose co-owner ended up the lead singer in a band with Nirvana's bass player and Ministry's drummer, plus a tea importer, a lesbian sex toy shop (one of them had an MBA, I shoulda asked her more questions), and a legit Northwest arts gallery that is, I think, still in business.
It was hard to get noticed, much less offend the squares.
Anyway, we decided to do a group show celebrating flying saucers, in honor of the 49th anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's flight at Mount Rainier, during which the phrase was coined. (I didn't think we'd be in business for the 50th. I was right.) I found my way to an AOL abductees board, and tried to talk a couple commercial artists in Pennsylvania into sending work, but they were skittish (and, it turned out, there was another gallery named Vox Populi in Philly, which might have been a problem, too). But I did turn up one abductee artist from...Auburn, I think. Pasty middle-aged guy, showed up, dropped off a sculpture that was kinda driftwoody and kinda not and mostly not anything we could make sense of, but, y'know, he was our token abductee. So we put it out and nobody much noticed, best I recall. At the end of the month the show came down and but he never came by.
Six months later, when I flew up from my "prestige" magazine job in LA to close Vox Pop, he still hadn't shown up to reclaim his sculpture. He didn't answer his phone; maybe it had been disconnected by that point. We had no way to find him, so we left it out by the dumpster, hoping, locked the place up, and went on about our lives.
REabducted abductee?
Training camp notwithstanding, I have tix for the 11/23 game in Nashville!
Huh. That's the game closest to me. I think I'm jealous.
Nashville is fun—we’re going to make a trip of it. There’s a direct flight from Richmond, so it’s easy to get to. We like to stay in East Nashville.
Yeah. Lived there for 8 years, met my wife there. Went down to work a show every September, but finally quit. I’m tempted by the game, but that’s a tough time to travel in retail.
We’re in Richmond. Where are you?
Eastern Kentucky.
Week seven, 2006, was my last in-person game. The guard who must not be named was better than our best D-Lineman, and the Vikings won 31-13, thanks in part to a 75'ish yard run through the left side of the O-Line.
My Mother-In-Law was an alien, by the way. And I'm not sure she's really dead, just in a different time zone.
Regarding most recent attendance to a Seahawks game: I really lucked out, as from the beginning of 2010 season through the 2015 season, I had six season tickets together in the lower, overhanging top level. I saw all of the great games, as I only missed a handful of home and playoff games during that six-year span. Man! But, a divorce happened, and that was it, unfortunately.
But oh, those glory years! Hooked me forever, I reckon 😊
I watched someone on YouTube who allegedly knows what they are talking about say something about direct travel between stars being prohibitive because of the relation between space and time and the time elapsed in the home system when returning. But then someone else who also allegedly knew what they were talking about said something about developing the ability to manipulate wormholes, so who knows. I, on the other hand, make no such assertions of knowing what I am talking about.
I scoff at worms being able to travel in space! I mean, c'mon. Sheesh. They don't have eyes to see where they're headed, or even heads to head a way!
mmm...I'm open to the possibility that spaceworms don't look like earthworms...
I believe the distances between stars are too great for interstellar travel. I believe that's a scientific impossibility.