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Remember When the Seahawks Won the Super Bowl?

Seattle’s World Cup run is over. Let’s look back at another moment that had the whole city cheering.

The Seattle Seahawks mascot, dressed in a blue and green costume, stands next to a blue NFL flag with the number 12, gesturing with both hands raised, celebrating the team's Super Bowl LX spirit.
Photo by DANIEL THOMAS

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2026 issue of Seattle magazine.

For the past few weeks, the World Cup gave Seattle plenty to cheer about. But remember February?

The Seahawks gave Seattle more than a championship; they gave us each other. In living rooms and crowded bars, in offices and cafés, strangers became family in a single shared roar. Blue and green flickered in windows and on bodies, a signal fire of belief. This victory belongs to the 12s who never stopped believing through the rebuilding years and the heartbreak.

It also belongs to Paul Allen, whose audacious faith kept this team rooted in the Northwest. He believed a small, rainy corner of the country could dream big and in color. This Lombardi feels like a love letter to that vision—to community, to resilience, to Seattle itself.

Collage of photos from a Seahawks victory parade showing excited crowds, NFL players celebrating on vehicles, and a flag on the Space Needle, with a "World Champions" sign visible after their Super Bowl LX win.

To our Seattle Seahawks, the 2026 Super Bowl LX champions! Your win brought us together and made us proud to be 12s.

Finding Fortitude Through Triathlon

Finding Fortitude Through Triathlon

More than 2,000 athletes will take on IRONMAN 70.3 Washington Tri-Cities Sept. 20, testing their endurance—and finding benefits that go far beyond physical fitness. 

In 2005, Jennifer Comfort was a new mom who wanted some exercise. She joined a gym, where she met a fellow Jen who had just done a triathlon. Comfort had no idea what that meant—it’s a sporting event with a swim, bike, and run component—but she signed up for one anyway. “I doggy-paddled the swim,…

Helsinki is Like Seattle—Only More Hockey-Obsessed

Helsinki is Like Seattle—Only More Hockey-Obsessed

As the Kraken head to Finland in November for their first regular-season games outside North America, Seattle fans will find ferries, coffee, craft beer and a familiar devotion to life by the water. 

We were maybe 15 minutes into our inaugural Helsinki stroll when my kid asked the question my jet-lagged brain had mulled over but filed under “later”: “Where are all the cars?” We were walking down Esplanadi on a bright June evening near the summer solstice, and the street noise was mostly gulls and the whine…

Who Let the Dogs In? The Mariners’ Bark at the Park Is Seattle at Its Best

Who Let the Dogs In? The Mariners’ Bark at the Park Is Seattle at Its Best

Baseball is better with a few hundred dogs in the stands.

Every so often, a city reveals its personality in the smallest and most delightful of ways. In Seattle, that might just be a baseball game … with dogs! The Seattle Mariners host “Bark at the Park” several times each season at T-Mobile Park, and if you haven’t been, you’re missing out on a high dose…

Why I Built a Pickleball Club With My Daughter

Why I Built a Pickleball Club With My Daughter

My father showed me how to turn my love of sports into something lasting. Pickle at the Palms carries that lesson forward. 

Looking back, I wouldn’t say my family teaming up to launch Pickle at the Palms—a new 20-court indoor pickleball club—was inevitable, but it may have been predictable. Sports have shaped my life for more than 50 years. I fell in love with rowing as a 17-year-old college freshman and went on to compete on two…