The first professional football team in Miami, and in the state of Florida, were the Miami Seahawks, who played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) during its inaugural 1946 season.

The Seahawks were the 1st NFL team to capture their division with a sub .- 500 regular season record ( 7 – 9 ).

The Seahawks were awarded the 2nd overall pick in the 1976 draft, a pick they used on defensive tackle Steve Niehaus.

In 2002, the Seahawks were returned to the NFC West as part of an NFL realignment plan that gave each conference four balanced divisions of four teams each.

In return the Seahawks were allowed to continue to use the phrase.

When the team's new headquarters across town in Kirkland were completed in, the Seahawks held training camp at home for the next eleven seasons ( 1986 – 96 ), staying in the dormitories of the adjacent Northwest College.

In, to coincide with the team moving to the NFC as well as the opening of Seahawks Stadium ( which would later be renamed Qwest Field, then CenturyLink Field ), both the logo and the uniforms were heavily redesigned.

The colors were modified to a lighter " Seahawks Blue ", a darker " Seahawks Navy " and lime green piping.

The helmets also were changed from silver to the lighter " Seahawks Blue " color after a fan poll was conducted.

The following year, they were moved to the NFC Central, while the other 1976 expansion team, the Seattle Seahawks, switched conferences with Tampa Bay and joined the AFC West.

Kirkland is the former home of the Seattle Seahawks ; the NFL team's headquarters and training facility were located in Kirkland for its first 32 seasons.

In 2010, the Seahawks were the first NFL team with a losing record ever to win a division title in a season not shortened by a strike.

They were able to clinch a playoff berth as the 5th seed in the NFC, eventually losing 21 – 20 against the Seahawks in Seattle on January 6, on a botched hold by Tony Romo during a field goal attempt.

They advanced as the sixth-seeded team in the NFC, and were defeated by the NFC West Division champions Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the playoffs.

On December 5, 2005, the Philadelphia Eagles retired his jersey in a halftime ceremony during the Eagles ' Monday Night Football game with the Seattle Seahawks, who were coached by Mike Holmgren, White's former coach in Green Bay.

Originally, natural grass was to be installed in the new NFL stadium, but the Seahawks ' management and players were so impressed by the performance of FieldTurf that it became the original playing surface at CenturyLink Field in 2002.

During the 1990s both the Seahawks ' and Mariners ' respective ownership groups began to question the suitability of the Kingdome as a venue for each team, threatening to relocate unless new, publicly funded stadiums were built.

As a result, public funding packages for new, purpose-built stadiums for the Mariners and Seahawks were approved in 1995 and 1997, respectively.

The Seattle Seahawks were the first major professional sports team to call the Kingdome its home.

Behring went so far as to relocate team headquarters to Anaheim, California, but his plans were defeated when lawyers found out that the Seahawks could not break their lease on the Kingdome until 2005.

On May 23, 2007, the Seattle Seahawks chose Jones Soda as its official soft drink, and its products were sold at Qwest Field from the 2007 through the 2009 season.

In 2010, the Saints qualified for the playoffs as a wild card team with an 11-5 record, but were eliminated in the Wild Card round by the Seattle Seahawks ( with the Seahawks being the first team in NFL history to qualify for the playoffs with a losing record in a non-strike season ), 41-36.

They were joined by a few veterans who crossed the picket lines, including New York Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau, Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Randy White, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Steve Largent.

In 2008, the Seahawks held the first three weeks of camp in Kirkland, then moved to the new Virginia Mason Athletic Center ( VMAC ) on August 18 for the final week of training camp.

The Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League have held the majority of their summer training camps at EWU, from 1976 – 1985, and again from 1997 through the 2006 training camp.

The Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League held the majority of their summer training camps at EWU, from 1976 – 1985 and from 1997 – 2006, from late July to mid August.

The Kingdome held a reopening ceremony the weekend of November 4 – 6, 1994, which culminated with the Seahawks returning to the stadium for a regular-season game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Allen funded a special election held on June 17, 1997 that featured a measure that would allocate public funding for a new stadium for the Seahawks to be built on the Kingdome site.

For the 2008-2010 NFL preseasons, non-national telecasts of Seattle Seahawks pre-season football games aired on KONG as NBC held the rights to the Summer Olympic Games.

The stadium also held an NFL exhibition game in 1998 when the San Francisco 49ers beat the Seattle Seahawks 24-21 in the American Bowl.

In the 2007-2008 season the Lady Seahawks made an appearance at nationals held in Sioux city, Iowa.

Despite the concerns held by the Chargers, particularly head coach Marty Schottenheimer, Chatman received plenty of interest on the open market from teams like the Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers, Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders and Seattle Seahawks.

St. Louis ' defense held Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander, the NFL's second leading rusher during the season, to only 40 yards on 15 carries.

Seahawks running back Curt Warner, the AFC's leading rusher during the regular season, was held to just 26 yards on 11 carries.

He is currently the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League ( NFL ), a position he has held since the 2011 season.

The Raiders defense limited Seahawks running back Curt Warner, who had led the AFC in rushing yards ( 1, 449 yards ), to just 26 yards on 11 carries.

One of the games Summerall called was the Cowboys ' game against the Seattle Seahawks at Texas Stadium, in which Emmitt Smith broke Walter Payton's career rushing yardage record.

Due to a cracked rib injury suffered against the Seattle Seahawks late in the season, he came up just short ( roughly 30 yards ) of having his best career rushing season, as he had been on pace to do so at the time with his best yards-per-carry average and his best career yards-per-game average.

He started at left guard against the Seahawks on November 19, and played with an offensive line that blocked for Gore ’ s single-game franchise record 212 rushing yards.

After forcing a punt, the Seahawks scored on their opening drive, with Hasselbeck completing two passes to Koren Robinson for 25 yards and Shaun Alexander rushing for 22 on the way to a 30-yard field goal by Josh Brown.

The Bengals recorded 254 rushing yards ( 126 of them and a touchdown from fullback Ickey Woods, a franchise postseason record ), while holding the Seahawks to 22.

The Seahawks ran for 205 rushing yards while Seattle's defense forced 2 interceptions and 6 sacks.

The Seahawks overcame an early concussion suffered by NFL MVP and rushing champion Shaun Alexander, and three turnovers, to end their 21-year playoff victory drought.

The Seahawks forced four turnovers, and allowed only 36 rushing yards and 14 points, as they advanced to their first Super Bowl trip in the team's 30-year history.

An example of a paragraph given was " In January 2005, in the Seattle Seahawks ' regular-season finale against the Patriots, Shaun Alexander watched from the sideline as time ran out, and he fell one yard short of Curtis Martin for the NFL rushing title.

Not only did Wheatley amass a career-high three 100-yard rushing games that season, but he also had his three highest career single-game performances: 156 yards on only 15 carries on October 22 at home against the Seattle Seahawks, 146 yards on December 16 at Seattle and 112 yards on November 5 against the Kansas City Chiefs.

In the third quarter of Super Bowl XL, Parker scored a 75-yard touchdown, the longest rushing play in Super Bowl history, to give the Steelers a 14 – 3 lead over the Seattle Seahawks.