Let’s remember when the NFL awarded Seattle with a team, on this day in 1974 (December 5)
End zone dances, Blue Fridays, Chris Carson’s fumbling, Ken Behring, whatever a Rick Mirer is, everything Seahawks related can be traced back exactly 45 years.
Per HistoryLink and Walt Crowley:
On December 5, 1974, National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle awarded the “Seattle Professional Football” consortium, led by Lloyd W. Nordstrom, a franchise to organize the future Seattle Seahawks. The franchise cost $16 million, underwritten by a who’s who of Seattle business leaders, including, in addition to Nordstrom, industrialist D. E. “Ned” Skinner, contractor Howard S. Wright, retailer M. Lamont Bean, and entrepreneur Herman Sarkowsky, who served as the group’s chief operating officer. The Seahawks were so named in June 1975 and debuted in the Kingdome on September 12, 1976.
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