Seahawks over Green Bay 34 - 24

Hello,

Just a little insight to tell you what it was like at the Seattle-Green Bay Snow Bowl football game on Monday night.

When the new Seahawks outdoor stadium was built a few years ago, I had promised myself if there ever was a snow game, I would go.

Around 3 o'clock I was hesitating a bit, not wanting to get stuck in traffic from all the slipping and sliding even if it was only a couple of inches, it can quickly turn to ice and make things treacherous. Many folks from the mid-west or back east, think it it kind of joke that folks in this area get so alarmed when any amount of snow hits. Try driving on it with all our steep hills and you will quickly change your mind.

A 4 x 4 won't make much difference and it is a lot of times the folks that grew up in snow country who cause the most accidents.

Anyway I made it to town..no problem in 25 minutes.

Finding free parking was another story. I refuse to pay $35 or $40 dollars for it. I ended up finding a free spot about a miles away, and arrived at the stadium an hour before game time, after the long walk, all with out having a ticket to the game. I do this whenever I feel the urge at any game no mater how big or important, there all always people that can't make it for some reason. I picked up a ticket from a guy that had three extra and wanted to get rid of them and get in the football stadium. He wanted $75 for one but in the end sold one to me for $25. Seat was on the 40 yard line, 8 rows back, right behind the Seahawks bench.

About ten minutes before game time it started to snow pretty hard. I was sitting around many Greenbay Packer fans, some with the famous cheese head hats and a few Seahawk fans. I told them that I grew up in Iron Mountain, Michigan, about a hundred miles from Greenbay, Wisconsin and had gone to a few Packer games in the days of Bart Star, Paul Horning, Willie Wood and many others. They had top teams back then. I never made the Ice Bowl between Dallas and Greenbay, for more or less the first super bowl, but attended one game in a blizzard and 9 degrees when they played Johnny Unitas's Baltimore Colts. That Ice Bowl had temperatures around 6 below zero. I believe because of that the Supper Bowl is usually played in a warm climate or a covered dome more for the fans sake.

Getting back to the fans...It was really a lot of fun. Two guys around me drove all the way from White Fish, Montana just to see the game. They were Packer fans and always were, before the Seahawks even existed.

Man and women had moved here from Manatawoc a few years ago and I told them I have a first cousin, Doug that lives in Polaski...They knew where it was. We all cheered when the snow came down harder and starred at Mike Holgrem not wearing a hat. We all wondered why? Bret Favre was amazing when he would throw the ball 50 some yards on a dead run. Very exciting games and either team could have won, the way that ball was bouncing around in the snow. I secretly wished I was watching it on TV and could hear what the sports announcers were saying about it.

As you know I predicted the Seahawks to win 24-21 and for a while it looked like it might happen. Ended up being 34-24 and one of the most thrilling games I have ever seen. I almost cheered for the Packers and one time I did when I spaced, and thought I was in Green Bay again. Seahawks fans wondered about me for a second.

Game ended. I walked back to the car and drove home.

Some people took hours to get home depending on the ice. I-5 was totally blocked at Northgate after becoming an ice skating rink. I took I-90 and made it home in forty minutes but had to be careful of iced over passes and bridges. A few cars were in the ditch.

It is Thursday, Temps are still in the 20's and a few more inches are expected tonight. No school in most areas. In the small town of Concrete, 80 miles north of here they got two feet. Power is out and the fun is wearing off for them. No problems here at Redmond Ridge except for the ice on the road.

If you ever get a chance, no mater where you live and there is a football game, any football game in a snow storm...don't miss it.

Can you believe some guys were watching the Seagal cheerleaders more than the game...waiting for them to slip and fall. They did. Nine times.

Make a snow man for me!

Joe