An Open Letter to the New Owners of the Seahawks
Dear Khosla Family,
Congratulations on reaching an agreement to acquire the reigning World Champion Seattle Seahawks and welcome to our city. As you are surely aware, no ownership group in the history of the NFL has ever walked into a better situation.
You realize your first real game as the owners of the Seahawks will be the night the banner for Super Bowl LX will be unveiled to the world?
No ownership group in NFL history has started their tenure that way.
But, that’s not all you’re getting.
You’re getting John Schneider, the general manager who assembled The Legion of Boom and The Dark Side. Mike Macdonald, a Super Bowl champion head coach in just his second year. The reigning Offensive Player of the Year. A quarterback with no quit. And an arena that serves as a noise factory, operated by the greatest fan base in the world - the 12s.
I understand you’ve been 49ers Season Ticket holders for 30 years and that you bought a 3.1% stake in the team ahead of last season. Several outlets have reported that you must sell your stake in our rival, before you can acquire the good guys (ironically nicknamed The Dark Side).
Since you’re coming from the 49ers, allow me to offer a few helpful differences between their organization and ours.
If you build our team a new practice facility, don’t put it next to an electric substation. Not that I think there’s any credibility to the substation thing - but why risk it?
We don’t do the diva wide receiver thing. That nightmare Brandon Aiyuk situation? That’s the kind of mess they make a little further down the I-5 from us.
It’s the SEATTLE Seahawks. Not the Auburn Seahawks or the Kirkland Seahawks. If you ever build a new stadium, spend a few extra bucks and keep the team in Seattle. It’s hilarious that the 49ers play an hour from San Francisco, but we don’t need those laughs coming our way.
Expect, accept, and embrace the disrespect from the national media.
Since the league reorganized in 2002, the Seahawks have won the NFC West 10 times. The next closest is the 49ers, who’ve won the division six times. The Rams have won it five times and the Cardinals three. It’s been our division since we got here, but the national media is going to give more credit to the California-based 49ers and Rams. Let ‘em.
Since the league reorganized in 2002, only the Patriots and Chiefs have been to more Super Bowls than the Seahawks. In fact, only the Patriots and Chiefs have won more Super Bowls in that same time. Our Seahawks can catch the Chiefs by winning it all again this year, which would give us three apiece. The national media isn’t even going to pick up that storyline until it’s too late. Let ‘em.
We like the edge. We like the chip. We like proving haters wrong.
The late and great Paul Allen once said “Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high.”
I hope you keep these words in mind as you lead us on our next crusade.
Welcome to Seattle, and Go Hawks!
-Written by Seattle Mike