So, anything happen the last couple weeks?  What's that?  The Hawks lost a home game where they were completely dominated?!! Percy Harvin's gone?!!  The Hawks dirty laundry has become national news??!  The media is chuckling to itself after the way that Rams game ended as if it were payback for the Fail Mary game??!  Pretty much anything could happen at this point and I wouldn't be surprised by it.  I'm half-expecting Pete Carroll to rip off his mask and reveal it was actually Dennis Erickson that's been coaching so far this year. 

But I digress.  The 12's, and particularly the 12's Since '12 (copyright Seattle Sportsnet) are in full-blown panic mode.  You can actually hear the hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth this week.  While I certainly understand the anxiety that goes with how this team is playing, it's time to take a deep breath and remind ourselves it is a long season, things can turn around on a dime, and there have been many Super Bowl winning teams that you would have left for dead in October.  So, let's see if we can't chuckle a little bit and preview this week's game through the shenanigans of Bushwood Country Club and Caddyshack...

Like Bill Simmons, I’ve been suspended for the last 3 weeks and have been unable to write columns.  Well, maybe that’s not exactly true.  It’s probably more along the lines of being in Leavenworth for Oktoberfest and having website issues, but it’s more fun to think that Geoff & Kevin would suspend me. 

Our beloved Seahawks make their return to the friendly confines of CenturyLink Field after a triumphant win over the Redskins on Monday night.  Although to listen to sports radio and read message boards the last few days, you would have thought our season was doomed after a 10-point win on the road.  As George told Jerry after he complained that his girlfriend was naked too often, “you spoiled, spoiled man”.  Have our memories really gotten that short?  It wasn’t that many years ago that we would have given vast sums of money for this team to be able to go on the road (particularly to the east coast) and get any kind of win.  I certainly understand that one of the few burdens of winning a title is having expectations raised to achingly high levels, but let’s take a deep breath and heed the words of Aaron Rodgers.  R-E-L-A-X.

But I digress.  I thought this week we’d go back to an oldie-but-a-goody and preview the game through the trials and triumphs of Lieutenant Frank Drebin and Naked Gun.

“It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.  Goodyear?  No, the worst.”
I think that was about Frank and an old girlfriend, but it could easily be the collective memory loss of the 12th Man.  This team had plenty of wins last year that were akin to what we saw in Washington on Monday night.  Do we remember the Golden Horseshoe game in St. Louis?  How about spotting a winless Tampa Bay team 21 points in our own home? Go back and look at that win against Tennessee.  That was embarrassingly close as well.  Point being, this team will have games like that but they have the talent to win them as opposed to 5 years ago.  Not every game is going to be the New Orleans game on Monday night or the Super Bowl.  No need to declare the season over with after a sloppy win.