SEATTLE is SUPER BOWL BOUND

[whalen]

Twas a proper victory! I have a theory that 10 seconds into the game....Manning shit his pants. Hard to concentrate there after.

[Crow]

Here we go again: Seahawks parade to rival Sonics in ‘79



The Seahawks parade down Fourth Avenue could draw as many as 500,000 to downtown Seattle — and maybe more. The fans say, maybe more.

Seattle, are you ready to show your love?

In 1979, when the city threw a parade for the NBA World Champions Seattle SuperSonics, about 300,000 ecstatic, screaming fans leaned in from rooftops, fire escapes, tree branches and light poles.

City leaders say they expect as many as half a million spectators to crowd downtown Seattle streets Wednesday for the parade and rally to celebrate the 43-8 Super Bowl beatdown of the Denver Broncos on Sunday.

Fans wonder, given the 12th Man’s reach across the Northwest and into Canada, if the crowd might be even bigger.

“I don’t think we’ve seen anything like it ever,” said Kate Carcelen, who attended the 1979 parade at age 8. “I’ll never forget that day, but this is that times 100.”

So sudden is this championship, and so inexperienced is the city, that officials enlisted the help of Seafair to manage logistics and marshal its legion of about 350 volunteers to produce and direct the parade — on three days’ notice.

“We had some very high-level conversations with the Seahawks and the city last week, but we didn’t want to jinx the game,” said President Beth Knox of Seafair, which stages the annual Torchlight Parade and hydroplane races.

The Seahawks paradewill travel on Fourth Avenue through downtown Seattle, starting at 11 a.m. just south of Denny Way and ending about 1:30 p.m.

At CenturyLink Field, Seahawks season-ticket holders have been invited to a rally after the parade, where head coach Pete Carroll and others will speak. Fans can arrive as early as 10:30 a.m. to watch the parade on the stadium’s video boards.

Thousands more fans — nonseason-ticket holders — will be admitted to Safeco Field starting at 10:30 a.m. Tickets to that event are required and were made available online to print for free on a first-come basis. Spectators in both stadiums will be able to watch the parade and an on-field presentation from a big screen.

Gov. Jay Inslee has declared a Moment of Loudness at 12:12 p.m., urging fans to make “as much noise as possible for 30 seconds.”

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