Podcasts

Thankful

Thanksgiving is a favorite in the HawkBlogger household. We fly all over creation to celebrate. HawkBloggerWife has family in NY, I have family in Boston. Family politics, cramped hotel rooms, bad football games, and great food somehow combine for a special day year-after-year. Before the day inevitably spins beyond my...
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Golden Opportunity

Mike Williams felt a pop in his foot on Sunday. The rest of us felt a pop in our collective rising Seahawk balloon. Few teams claim to be rising after a 15-point loss, but those of us watching this team can see what is happening. The great and horrible news...
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Power Rankings

Hawk Blogger 2010 Power Rankings – Week 11

PRIMER Power rankings are always debatable. I don’t buy into the gut feel methods most places use to determine their rankings, so I developed a formula a few years back that attempts to take at least some of the subjectivity out of the discussion. My approach is simple, I measure...
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Morning After

The Morning After: Saints Beat Seahawks, 34-19

Mike Holmgren was nearly fired the last time the Seahawks offense played this well. The Seahawks stood at 3-7  after 11 weeks into the 2002 season. Holmgren had been GM and Head Coach since 1999, and patience was running thin around Seattle that he could turn around this moribund franchise. A...
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Power Rankings

Hawk Blogger 2010 Power Rankings – Week 10

PRIMER Power rankings are always debatable. I don’t buy into the gut feel methods most places use to determine their rankings, so I developed a formula a few years back that attempts to take at least some of the subjectivity out of the discussion. My approach is simple, I measure...
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Don’t Stop Believing

Rain-soaked weekends in the Northwest make for great opportunities to cozy up on the couch with the family and bust out a few tunes on Rock Band. We celebrated a HawkBloggerKid early morning soccer victory yesterday with a rousing rendition of Kids in America, Livin’ on a Prayer, and Eye...
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Grand Salami Time

It was August of 1995. Vince Coleman had just been traded to the Mariners, just weeks after the team acquired Andy Benes and signed veteran Norm Charlton off the scrap heap. It was also the time my family went to Black Butte Ranch every Summer to find solace from our...
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