The Seattle Seahawks have one of the best rosters in the NFL. Last year, the team surprised many people by making the playoffs. The team's general manager wanted to focus on improving specific positions during the 2019 draft. Several years ago, the Seahawks had one of the best secondaries in the league. After multiple veteran players were traded, the Seahawks needed to focus on drafting quality defensive players. L.J. Collier L.J. Collier was drafted in the first round. Collier played at TCU as a defensive end. In college, he played in the same system that the Seahawks use. The team [...]

Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider traded down twice in the first round, and still managed to draft a top player in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft. The team started with 4 draft picks prior to the draft but ended the night with a total of 9 picks. In 1976, the brand-new Seattle NFL franchise made a pair of defensive players their first two drafted players. Steve Niehaus and Sammy Green each played less than five seasons for the Seahawks. Neither would be considered for any Seahawk wall-of-honor. Seattle certainly hopes their early-round selections in 2019 have [...]

Study Finds That Seattle Is Not 'America's Best Coffee City' Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world. Its use has grown exponentially since it was allegedly accidentally discovered by goat herders in the North Africa/Middle East area hundreds of years ago. While that region and Italy have a worldwide reputation for their large number of coffee drinkers, millions of people in the United States love coffee as well. For several decades Seattle, Washington, home of Starbucks and other popular brands of coffee, has held the crown as the coffee capital of the United States. Now a [...]

Last Sunday the Seattle Seahawks headed to London to play the Oakland Raiders at Wembley Stadium in what was their first game in another country. Frank Clark and the Seahawks pass rush highlight the Seahawks dominate 27-3 win over the Raiders. This was a very interesting time for the Seahawks because they took their star quarterback, his music star wife, and a new defense to London for a game in a stadium that could be purchased by another NFL owner. The layers of this story boggle the mind when one considers the impact of football around the world. After all [...]

Seattle has been lobbying for a hockey team for quite some time and is finally getting its own NHL team. The yet to be named team will play thier games at Key Arena. While no doubt Seattlites would rather have their beloved Super Sonics back, they are happy take a hockey team that will get their full support and sell out arenas every night. Lets take a look at what it has taken to bring a new hockey team to Seattle in 2021. The NHL Is Ready The NHL has been read to expand for a while, and they were [...]

The world famous Pike Place Market located in Seattle, WA is the first original farmers market in the country dating back to the year 1907. Started by local farmers, it quickly became a popular spot and grew to eleven buildings covering nine acres along the Seattle Waterfront. The Market almost was destroyed in the 1960's having never fully recovered from World War Two. The group "Friends of the Market" along with architect and activist Victor Steinbrueck, saved the market by creating a seven acre historical district surrounding the market area with a view deck looking over Elliot Bay. The New [...]