We all love the Seahawks and football. We all want to see them win a Super Bowl again, I think I didn’t stop smiling for the entire Spring and Summer of 2014. But what makes you enjoy being a fan the most? Personally, I love being able to cheer for a competitive team. A team that has a chance to win every week, and you know will be playing meaningful games in December. I know everybody’s different in their fandom and there is no right or wrong answer to this, it’s completely subjective, but what makes you the happiest as a football fan?
So the question is, would you prefer the Seahawks perform to the level they have the last several seasons: meaning winning seasons, always competitive, but can’t quite seem to ever get over that hump in the playoffs and kick it into second gear, always feeling like they’re one offseason away from being a true contender? OR having 3, 4, 5 seasons of losing football with a shorter window for deep playoff success, largely due to routine high draft positioning?
I ask this because personally, I feel like a lot of current Seahawks fans are spoiled. I’m in my 30s now and have been a Seahawks fan my entire life. And I can honestly say I’m enjoying every moment of this Pete and John run program while it’s here, because I’ve lived through true mediocrity and irrelevancy. I completely understand the argument for wanting to move on from Pete and trying something new, but I’m genuinely curious what people realistically want out of this team as a fan, what makes you happy, and what you consider to be a successful season. And please don’t say winning the Super Bowl every year, because that is not how life works.
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At a minimum, I want to reasonably believe we can win at least one playoff game. I do not enjoy missing out on the top half of the draft just for the right to be Wild Card road kill.
The goal is championships so I’d prefer the one that has them being legit contenders even if you have to do a few tougher years. Just being wild card or divisional round participants where you know they aren’t going to get to the top of the hill is like purgatory
I’m not trying to debate you when I say this, but genuinely asking a question because I don’t quite understand this mentality from a fan. You would suffer through multiple seasons of losing football and gain little to no enjoyment on a weekly basis for years for a higher peak once or twice a decade?
If you could model the Seahawks after another NFL team outside of the Chiefs, who would you choose?
I want to move on from Pete and be competitive against actual contenders again. I’m older than you btw. I’m willing to take a risk on change.
I vote for always being competitive. I’ve seen it all with the Seahawks and having losses be foregone conclusions totally sucks.
And just because you have a window of success in the playoffs, that doesn’t guarantee a SB win.