Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks (or simply the Seahawks) is a professional American football team from Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

The Seahawks entered simultaneously with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the NFL in 1976, because expansion teams. Originally, the name Seattle Seahawks connected with the local ice hockey club, now known as theSeattle Thunderbirds . The team was first owned by John Nordstrom (his family owned a chain department stores) and is owned by Paul Allen in 2006.

The team won on 2 February 2014 Super bowl, by playing the Denver Broncos 43-8. Also, they reached the Super Bowlbefore, in 2006, but lost when 21-10 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The club logo consists of a stylizedfish Eagle in the style of the American Indians from the Northwest of North America (Pacific Northwest). The Seahawks played initially in the Kingdome and later on Qwest Field (or Qwest Stadium, temporarily called during construction and since 2011 Seahawk Stadium renamed to CenturyLink field) is the newest Stadium in the NFL right now, it has a capacity of 50,000 people. In the season 06-07 the Seahawks came no further than the Conference Finals, they were eliminated by the later champion Indianapolis Colts.

In 2012 the Seattle Seahawks played the entire season with a rookie Quarterback Russell Wilson. Wilson was in the NFL Draft in the 3rd round of 2012 chosen and achieved the record in his first season of Peyton Manning for most touchdown passes in a rookie season. In the playoffs against the Washington Redskins and the Seahawks played they won the first victory in the play-offs since the season of 1983 (24-14).

In 2014, they won the Super Bowl for the first time after a 43-8 win against the Denver Broncos.