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As a kid I always thought the Redskins were from Washington state. I don’t think I was right. But they are coming for a game soon here in Seattle. Come to Quest Field. Here is some info form wikipedia:

The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the Washington, D.C. area. The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, which is in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The team’s headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn, Virginia, a community in Loudoun County, Virginia near Dulles International Airport. They are members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

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The freakin good New England Patriots are coming to Seattle for a game. The event is at Qwest Field and the time is soon. Come support the Seahawks. Here is some info form wikipedia:

The New England Patriots, commonly called the “Pats” by sports writers and fans,[1] are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The owners changed the name from the original Boston Patriots after relocating the team to Foxborough in 1971, although Foxborough is a suburb of Boston, 22 miles (35 km) away. They are currently the defending American Football Conference Champions, after winning the 2007 AFC Championship Game.

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I don’t know anything about the New York Jets but that they are playing the Seahawks soon. Come out to Qwest Field for the game. Here is some info form wikipedia:

The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team plays their home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey at Giants Stadium, which is named after another NFL team that plays there, the New York Giants.

The club’s headquarters and training facility are located at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on Long Island. They are constructing a new training facility and corporate headquarters in Florham Park, New Jersey that is scheduled to open in 2009.[1]

The team began in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League under the name New York Titans. It was renamed after Sonny Werblin bought the team in 1963. The Jets later joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.

The Jets hold the distinction of being the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game when they defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.

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Brett Farve and the Packers are coming to Seattle to play the Seahawks. Brett may not be with them for long so it is better to see the game now. Come out to Quest field.

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are currently members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL) and are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL.

The Packers are the last vestige of “small town teams” that were once common in the NFL during the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1919 by Earl “Curly” Lambeau (thus the name Lambeau Field in which the team presently plays) and George Whitney Calhoun, the Green Bay Packers can trace their lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. In 1919 and 1920 the Packers competed as a semi-professional football team against clubs from around Wisconsin and the Midwest. They joined the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1921, the forerunner to what is known today as the National Football League (NFL).

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The St. Louis Rams are coming to Seattle to play our team. I don’t think that they will have a chance, but they might as well try. Come to Quest Field to see the game.

The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team has won two NFL Championships and one Super Bowl.

The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, the NFL considers it a separate entity since only four of the players (William “Bud” Cooper, Harry “The Horse” Mattos, Stan Pincura, and Mike Sebastian) and none of the team’s management joined the new NFL team.

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The Seahawks are playing the Philadelphia Eagles soon. I hope the Seahawks destroy the Eagles. The game will be at Quest Field in Seattle.

Half-way through the 1931 season, in the NFL, the Frankford Yellow Jackets went bankrupt and ceased operations. After more than a year of searching for a suitable replacement, the NFL awarded the dormant franchise to a syndicate headed by Bert Bell and Lud Wray, in exchange for an entry fee of $2,500. Drawing inspiration from the insignia of the centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, the National Recovery Act, Bell and Wray named the new franchise the Philadelphia Eagles. (Neither the Eagles nor the NFL officially regard the two franchises as the same, citing the aforementioned period of dormancy; furthermore, almost no Yellow Jackets players were on the Eagles’ first roster. Some observers, however, believe the two teams should be treated as one). The Eagles, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the defunct Cincinnati Reds, joined the NFL as expansion teams.

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I love to see warm desert folk come to the rainy lands. Arizona Cardinals are coming to Quest Field to be destroyed by the Seahawks. Get your tickets soon.

The Cardinals are the oldest continuous professional American football club in the United States. The team was formed in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago. The club was then called the Racine Normals since they were originally located in Normal Park on Chicago’s Racine Avenue (not Racine, Wisconsin, as mistaken by many). They then changed their name to the Racine Cardinals after they started wearing dark reddish uniforms, inherited from the collegiate Chicago Maroons. This hand-me-down, low-budget situation would prove to be a good metaphor for the team’s chronology.

After becoming a charter member of the NFL in 1920, the club was renamed the Chicago Cardinals, in part to distinguish them from a new franchise that was actually placed in Racine, Wisconsin. In 1944, during the lean years of World War II, the Cardinals temporarily merged into the Pittsburgh Steelers and became one franchise, usually referred to as Card-Pitt, for that one season. The Cardinals moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1960 becoming the St. Louis Cardinals, often called the “Football Cardinals” or the “Grid Birds” to distinguish them from the baseball team, and also sometimes called “The Big Red” during some brushes with success in the 1970s. After an unsuccessful campaign for a new football-only stadium in St. Louis, the club relocated to the Phoenix metropolitan area in 1988, first playing at Sun Devil Stadium in the suburb of Tempe. The team was known as the Phoenix Cardinals before it started using “Arizona” in its name in 1994.

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I only know the 49ers of the mid 90s with Steve Young as the quarterback. I haven’t seen them since then. I hope they are good so the game is exciting. The Seattle Seahawks are playing them at Quest Field soon.

The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in San Francisco, California, while the club’s headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara. The 49ers are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

The 49ers began play in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and joined the NFL in 1950 after the AAFC merged into the older league. The team currently shares the record for most Super Bowl victories (five) with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys, and is the only team with multiple appearances in the Super Bowl that is undefeated in the NFL title game, with a record of 5-0. The 49ers teams of the 1980s and early 1990s are considered by many to be among the greatest teams in NFL history, particularly the 1984 and 1989 teams.

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The Killers from Las Vegas are coming to Qwest Field for a one night event. The band formed in 2002 and became mega stars after there debut album Hot Fuss. This album featured hit songs like “Mr. Brightside” and “Somebody Told Me” and they have a new album that just came out in late 2006. This band is great so you got to get your tickets quick. If you are having a hard time finding the tickets you want to this show at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:
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Kenny Chesney has country oozing out of him. Stopping by Seattle’s Qwest Field, Kenny will be singing chart topping songs like “There Goes My Life” and “Living In Fast Forward”. If you can’t find the tickets you want to this show at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:
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The high flying, in your face energy of Supercross is coming to Qwest Field. These guys are insane for doing half the things they do on the track, but it sure is fun to watch. These events only come around every blue moon so get your tickets now. If you can’t find the tickets you want to this sporting event at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:
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The American Motorcyclist Association Supercross traveling circus (or whatever you call this big honkin’ road show) is invading Qwest Field in April of 2007. Tickets are sure to sell out but never fear — we’ll help you get your hands on some anyway. A scan of my favorite ticket brokers reveals the following:

We Have Seats is currently unloading excellent tickets at prices ranging from $60-217
StubHub has tickets ranging from $69-158
TicketsNow has seats ranging from $80-600 (not sure about that high end…)

Anyway, I’ve never been to one of these events but the supercross marketing machine assures me it is wonderful (take that for what it’s worth…) It looks like the supercross marketers wrote their wiki too because it sounds like the greatest thing ever based on that page:

Supercross is an exciting, highly-competitive, dangerous and extremly demanding cycle racing sport, during which athletes in the truest sense of the word race specialized high performance off-road motorcycles on man made dirt tracks consisting of steep jumps and obstacles. Supercross races are held almost exclusively within professional baseball and football stadiums.

Supercross was derived from the sport of Motocross. While Motocross and Supercross are similar in many respects, there are significant differences as well. For example, the Supercross races themselves are heavily advertised, slickly-produced, and televised motorsports event spectaculars produced within major cities. Motocross events are more grassroots contests, that often are held on small tracks or in rural areas. Motocross “motos” go untelevised and unnoticed by all except a following of devoted fans, who would probobly attend a Supercross event also if be it near or in town. Attendance of spectators in a colosseum during a Supercross contest is much greater and more focused, than at the outdoors Motorcross paved track or ranging overland course. Typically, a Supercross event consists of a set number of qualifying races, heat races, and semi-finals, leading up to the finals race for each contest cycle catagory that is called the “Main Event”. The race lengths can range from as few as 6 laps in some qualifying Supercross eliminations to 20 laps for the highlighted Main Event. Because Supercross events are held in the arena of major stadiums the track sizes tends to be smaller, than the traditional outdoors Motocross program field of competition. Also, Supercross jumps and obstacles tend to be more uniform and precise on their short track. Because Supercross courses of competition are not as long the race duration tends to be shorter as well and more intense, than for the less profiled outdoors Motocross moto events. Supercross races usually last no longer than 22 minutes, while outdoor races can run in excess of 40 minutes per Motocross moto. The Supercross event winner is the rider who qualifies through preliminary races, and finishes first in the Main Event Final. In American Motocross, a winner ordinarily is chosen by combining his or her best scores from two motos. Therefor, a Supercross Champion ordinarily is thought to have superior technical skills for racing on a very tight track under controlled and quickly varying conditions, while a Motocross Champion is lauded for having the strength, endurance and courage to race at high speeds under extreme conditions of heat and physical exertion on a rough track. A moto race is a sort of countryfied and usually off-road motorcycle contest, while a Supercross Main Event Final often takes on the look and feel of a Roman Gladiator spectacle.

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While growing consistantly since the 70’s, in the early part of the 21st Century Supercross’ popularity really took off. In the United States, Supercross races today are the second most popular form of motorsport (behind NASCAR racing). The American Motorcyclist Association awards three Supercross Championship Champs each year. They are Supercross Champion which until 2006 was referred to as 250 class, Supercross Lites East (which was the 125 East) Champion, and Supercross Lites West Champion. World Supercross Champions are named by other racing organizations around the world. Supercross racing classifications were governed by the displacement of the motorcycle’s engine until 2006. In the past, Championships have been awarded in 125cc (also known as “MX2″), 250cc (”MX1″), and 500cc displacement levels (also known as “MX3″). The 250cc Champion has always been generally considered to be the most prestigious.

I dunno how much of that to believe but selling out Qwest field must mean it is cool enough to attract a lot of fans. Good luck on you hunt!

Supercross World Championship Winners By Year
Year - Supercross Class (formerly 250cc)
2006 - James Stewart Jr.
2005 - Ricky Carmichael
2004 - Heath Voss
2003 - Chad Reed

Here is some info about Seattle’s Qwest Field:

Qwest Field is a football stadium in Seattle, Washington. It serves as the home field for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and men’s and women’s Seattle Sounders soccer teams. The stadium opened in July 2002 and was built on the site of the Kingdome, the previous stadium for the Seahawks, Major League Baseball’s Seattle Mariners, and several other Seattle sports teams. On March 26, 2000, to make way for the construction of the stadium, the Kingdome fell in the world’s largest implosion of a single concrete structure.

I’ve actually never been there, but I here it is a pretty sweet stadium. If you are looking for primo tickets to an upcoming game or event at Qwest Field here are the best places I have found to look:

StubHub always seems to have great sats to the biggest events. They have an excellent and reliable booking engine and they even let you sell your extra tickets with them.
We Have Seats seems to have the cheapest prices out of the top aftermarket ticket sources so they are always a good place to shop.
TicketsNow is a reliable place to shop as well with a solid reputation and usually a large selection.

Here is some more trivia from the Qwest field Wiki:

Location 800 Occidental Avenue S.
Seattle, Washington 98134-1200
Broke ground April 2000
Opened 2002
Owner Washington State Public Stadium Authority
Operator First & Goal Inc.
Surface FieldTurf
Construction cost $300 million
Architect Ellerbe Becket & First and Goal, Inc

The stadium was originally named Seahawks Stadium and affectionately called “The Hawk”, or the “Hawks Nest”. The name Qwest Field was announced on June 2, 2004, after Qwest bought the naming rights, $75 million, for 15 years. Although some people began using the new name immediately, the official approval wasn’t given until twenty-two days later (June 24) by the Washington State Public Stadium Authority. Seahawks owner Paul Allen funded about 30% of the stadium’s cost out of his pocket, the remainder being paid by a funding package of user fees, sports lottery revenue, and taxes on related industries.

Allen was intimately involved in the stadium design. He rejected plans for a retractable roof, and directed the architects to minimize the stadium footprint as much as possible to bring fans closer to the action. Also, he had the architects design the structure of the stadium, especially the roof, to direct as much crowd noise as possible on the field. In addition, the north end zone seating, called the “Hawks Nest”, was specifically designed for rowdy fans; the seating consists of metal bleachers which reflect sound, and fans often stomp to create even more. Qwest Field has since earned a reputation as arguably the loudest stadium in the NFL. During the 2005 season, more penalties for false starts were called against visiting teams in Qwest Field than in any other NFL stadium. At one point during the 2006 season, the New York Giants complained that Qwest Field was artifically piping in noise in order to distract visiting quarterbacks from running a count.

For longtime fans of the Seahawks it has been a couple of good years. They made it to the Super Bowl in January of 2006 (and had the refs not been idiots it might have been a close game…) and again in 2007 the team rockin’ and rollin’. of course that means tickets can be hard to come by. If you are in need of tickets I think the three bast places to search (after the team box office) are We Have Seats, TicketsNow, and StubHub. In my experience these three represent the best prices and availibility on aftermarket tickets on the Web — most other sources usually are just reselling the stuff for these guys. Good luck!

Here a bit of Seahawk trivia for you to chew on as well…

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team, along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, joined the NFL in 1976 as expansion teams.

Seattle is currently the only team in the NFL that has played in both the AFC (American Football Conference) and NFC Championship Games. The Seahawks have one Super Bowl appearance, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL.

* The Seahawks conduct summer training camp at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, just southwest of Spokane. During the Seahawks’ first ten seasons (1976-1985), summer training camps were held in Cheney. When the team’s present headquarters in Kirkland were completed in 1986, the Seahawks held camp at home for the next eleven seasons (1986-1996), staying in the dormitories of the adjacent Northwest College. Under Dennis Erickson the team returned to the hotter and more isolated Cheney in 1997, where they will hold training camp through 2007. The Seahawks are scheduled to move their summer training camp back to suburban Seattle in 2008, when their new Renton complex is completed.
* As a tribute to the raucus fans that made the Kingdome the loudest stadium in the NFL the Seahawks retired the number 12 on December 15, 1984. Since then #12 Jerseys have been sold by the team and worn by Seahawk fans, often with the name “Fan” on the back. The Seahawks also have a ceremony before each home game where a flag bearing the #12 is raised by a prominent individual. In the 2005 season the fans were again making a difference in games and were recognized with the presentation of a special game ball for their efforts in a game against the New York Giants, a game in which the Giants committed 11 false start penalties due in large part to the crowd noise.[7]
* The team was in a legal limbo for a while between the 2005 and 2006 season with Texas A&M University over the use of the phrase “12th Man”. Both parties settled out of court with Seattle agreeing to acknowledge ownership rights to the 12th Man slogan to A&M. In return the Seahawks are able to use the phrase as originally planned. [5]
* While Blitz has been the Seahawks’ official mascot since 1998, Taima the augur hawk debuted in September of 2006. Taima leads the team out of the tunnel before the game and circles the stadium before returning to his handler, Dave Knutson.