Seahawks Stories: Steve Raible

Robert Turbin is joined by former wide receiver and current broadcaster Steve Raible to discuss his football playing days as well as life as the Voice of the Seahawks. Today’s show: Introduction to football (04:27), playing at Georgia Tech (09:27), playing for the expansion Seahawks (19:48), meeting his wife (35:27), his journey into broadcasting (40:41), and the meaning behind Super Bowl XLVIII (57:51).

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Now he's got to scramble. Now he talks to Turbine
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all the way down to the Chargers twenty one yard line,
a thirty two yard pickup. Now here's your host, super
Bowl forty eight champion, Robert Turbin. Where we know we

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are back again with another episode of Seahawks Stories, and
I'm here with a very special guest. I mean, I
don't even know how to introduce his back. You know,
five time inmy Award winner twenty nineteen and Hall of
Fame and Duckee for the State of Washington. I mean,

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seemingly are the face of the franchise of the Seattle Seahawks.
I am joined by none other than Steve Rabel, the
Great Steve Rabel. How are we doing today, Turbo. I'm great, terrific.
Thank you, considering all of the obstacles out there, the
snow and and everything else. Two things. First of all,

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you were a harm good football player, and it reminded
me when when we played that clip of the kind
of hard runner and good receiver out of the backfield
that you were. So I'll blow a little smoke for
your for your way early on here. Uh and uh
and what a great Oh. The other thing was the
face of the franchise. If this ugly face is the
is the face of anything, um, then we're all in

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a in a huge world a hurt, but thank you,
and it's great to be here. And I you know,
I kind of I'm a storyteller on radio on Sundays
and whenever else we get on there, so I look
forward to being able to just sit and chat with
you for a while. Yeah. This show is all about,
you know, sharing our stories, former and current yall players
coming on, sharing some of those not those deep dark

(02:13):
secrets per se, but those stories you won't necessarily find
in the media or read in the paper or find
on the internet or anything like that. So it's it's
an honor to have you. I gotta tell you, man,
hearing your voice uh during those play by plays, I mean,
it's it's special, man, it's a it's it's really a

(02:33):
special thing. It's like, I mean, just hearing that highlight
in the beginning gets me juice stuff. Hearing your voice
behind it, man. So it's truly an honor to have
you here on the show with us today. You want
to hear a great story about hearing my voice. So,
for what thirty eight years, I worked at at Cairo
Television Channel seven here in Seattle news anchor. So, I

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you know, five days a week, four newscasts today, huge newsroom,
full of people. Right. So one day, I don't know,
it's probably ten or twelve years ago now, but I
walk into the newsroom on a Monday getting ready for
all of our newscasts, and one of our female producers
walked over to me and she said, I just went
to my first Seahawks game yesterday. I think it was

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a win yesterday and it was great fun. I had
a great test at Oh that's that's terrific. And she
said you know what was really spooky. She said, I
went into the ladies room, I sat down, and all
of a sudden, I hear your voice. And she said
that was about as as discombobulating as anything that's ever
happened to me. I said, well, I apologize. I hope

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it didn't obstruct anything, and now we move on with
talking about the game. But so, yeah, sometimes the voice
can kind of get you embarrassed a little bit, but
you know what, the heck, if people recognize it, you know,
that's great. And I've been so blessed to be here
and be a part of it all these years. It's
funny because it's like, you know, for me, the transitions

(04:02):
from being on the field and then getting into the
broadcast booth and being in radio and stuff like that
and at the stadium, and it's just like, no matter
where you go, you're going to be able to hear
Steve just so you can get an update on the
game so you know what's going on. It's it's it's
really entertaining. But I want to go back a little

(04:23):
bit because you grew up in Kentucky, right, and uh,
you know, so when did football kind of begin for you?
How did, How did that come about? How how did
part of your life? Well, it's interesting, Um my father
was a semi pro baseball player. Uh he played in
the Red Sox organization of a thousand years ago, obviously,

(04:45):
um and so UM. It would have been tough, I
think for me to have been a baseball player, because
you're kind of trying to compete with dad, and you know,
he was a really good pitcher and all that, and
I sort of liked, you know, growing up. I know
you're gonna find this hard to believe, trible, but at
one time there were only three TV stations. Nobody believes

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me when I say that, but there were only three
TV stations, CBS, NBC, and ABC, and there was one
football game on on Sunday, a pro football game. And
where I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, it was almost
always the Packers because the Packers were the winningest team
back in those days. So I watched the Packers. You know,

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I could really understand what I was watching, starting when
I was in about fourth grade. So from about sixty three,
nineteen sixty three on, I was really loving football and
I loved watching it on TV. I loved hearing another
name that you won't know, but a guy named Ray Scott.
Whenever you have a couple of minutes, google Ray Scott,

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NFL broadcaster and he was the quintessential television play by
play guy. Remember, as you know, in televison and you're
seeing the pictures so you don't have to overdo it
like we do in radio, right, ray Scott would do
this and broadcasting the Packers star Dowler touchdown and that's

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all he had to say. Wow. And I was so
amazed by that, because yes, the pictures told the story,
but just the emphasis that Ray Scott put on things.
So listening to him, watching the Packers, who were super
the first two Super Bowl champs back in the mid sixties,
for me was the gateway to football. And as I've

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told people before, I started playing when I was in
fifth grade and I was a little bit small, but
I was always very quick, very fast, and I never
minded hitting people. I never minded getting hit. So that
was one of the things that I think, as you know,
kind of separates you out pretty quickly if you don't
mind getting bashed around a little bit. And in those days,

(06:59):
we did stupid things when we hit. We had two
people just running into each other head first because nobody
knew about head trauma and concussions and all that. So
happily we don't do that anymore. But that's how I
got interested. And then because I was fast, I also
ran track all the way through high school, all the
way well, grade school, high school, and all the way
through college as well. Man, it's funny that you know,

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what's interesting about this story is that football. You gravitated
to football actually through a broadcaster. First. Yeah, normally it's
a player, it's a it's a team writer or or
or a play that you saw that was like, wow,
I want to do that, or I want to be
like him someday. And and interestingly enough, it was the

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broadcaster that originally got your attention watching the Green Bay
Packers well, you know, and and watching them that's how
I got excited about watching guys like Jimmy Taylor, the fullback,
the Hall of Fame fullback H Paul Horning was one
of their running acts for the Packers in those days.
And he was from Louisville and he went to an
all boys Catholic high school just as I did. Eventually,

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Bart Starr was my hero, so to be able to
watch those guys and to see and listen to them.
It got me fired up about wanting to play. And
then by the time I was in like I say what,
by the time I was in fifth grade, I went
and played We called it Gray Why, it was YMCA
Football League and there were six teams, and I was
on the Bears and played with them for a couple

(08:30):
of three years, and then started playing in high school
and then we took off from there. But yeah, you know,
you had to start someplace, and we didn't have pro
football obviously in Louisville, so the closest we had were
the Packers or the Bears, or in the other direction,
let's see, the Bengals came in, but not until sixty
eight Cleveland Browns just up the road from them. So

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those were the teams that were right around us that
I could watch, and especially the Packers. Really interesting. I
started playing football in the fifth grade and I also
played for a Pop Warner team to bear. Yes, yeah,
oh really, yeah I did. Yeah, how about it. I'm
sure you were much better than I than I was.
I don't know, I was all right, but you know, everybody,

(09:12):
everybody's pretty good at the pop Warner though, Yeah, where
was that? Where was that? I was in Fremont, California? Okay, yeah, okay,
yeah so but yeah, so you start your essentially you
start your football career in the fifth grade, played through
high school, and then you go to college at Georgia Tech, right, right, right?
What went into that choice? Did you? Did you have

(09:33):
some other options that you considered? What went into going
into Georgia Tech? Well? I did have a number of
options early on in at the end of my junior
year and through most of my senior year, Notre Dame
was kind of on me, and, um, you know, what,
what else could a young Catholic kid do in a
Catholic boys high school then go to Notre Dame. When

(09:54):
I didn't go to Notre Dame, I think my grandmother
disowned me. She just she just had this this idea
that I should go up there to be a Golden Domer.
But I didn't. You know, Notre Dame was a really
good football team, and I was afraid I might get
someplace where I wouldn't have a chance to play. I'd
be just one of many guys that they had. So

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I kind of looked around for places that a and
first and foremost, and I know you're not going to
believe this, but first and foremost for me, it was
the education. Where can I go to get a quality
education because somebody else is going to pay for it,
which means my parents don't have to, which means they
can now focus on my brother and two sisters. And
so for me that was the most important part, because

(10:37):
there was not a chance I was ever going to
go beyond maybe playing college football. But I knew I
could get a good education. So I was recruited by
the University of Louisville and lead corso by Tulsa, some
by Notre Dame Tennessee was really kind of on me too,
and I hated Orange, so that took care of that
one in a hurry. But Georgia tack two things. First

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of all, the school the great education I knew I
would get. And secondly, I don't know if you remember
the name. You were probably young when he In fact,
you were very young when he was coaching. But a
guy named Jerry Glanville. Jerry Glanville coached. He was the
head coach with the Falcons for a while, with the
Oilers for a while, but he was the linebackers coach

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at Georgia Tech at the time, and he was the
guy who recruited the Louisville area, and so he got
me a teammate of mine, two guys the year before me,
two guys at another all boys Catholic high school. And
suddenly when I was at junior, we had five guys
from Louisville starting for Georgia Tech. Defensive lineman, three offensive lineman,

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a wide receiver, a defensive back. So you know, Jerry
Glanville had had a pretty good haul out of our area.
And he eventually went on to be an assistant coach
with the Lions for a time and then worked his
way into becoming a head coach. And he was on
TV too. He was on he was the first or
one of the first guys on the Showtime show NFL

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show on Showtime whatever that's called these days. He was
one of the first guys on there with Nick Bonacani.
So uh, it was always fun. He was a great guy,
real great personality, and he threatened to kick my butt
if I went anyplace else other than Georgia Tech. So
that that kind of that kind of made the decision
for me. Um boy, it's like the next at Georgia Tech. Okay,

(12:35):
well I want to I want to tell you a
quick story. So, okay, my high school we ran the wishbone,
we ran triple option. Goodness, grat show. There's way between us,
and I ever had any idea for another thing in
colege between it. So I want to ask you about
running the wishbone offense because he played wide receiver, right
tight it well, yeah, but you go ahead and ask

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your question and I'll tell you how all well, how
was it running the wishbone on offense? You know it
is right? Well, when I was recruited to Georgia Tech,
we ran a kind of a wide open pro style offense,
and that's for my first two years. And so you
know here I am a wide receiver, and I kind
of grew my last year in high school. So here
I am almost six two, about one hundred and ninety pounds,

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and I ran up nine eight hundred coming out of
high school and ran a four four five when I
first started college in the forty. Eventually I ran a
four three five forty my junior year at Tech and
a nine to five hundred one hundred yards not one
hundred meters and so why was all said? You know,
I was a flanker and a wide out and I

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could do all those things. And after my sophomore year,
our head coach resigned. You know, he had a we
had a good record, but he resigned because he had
some personal issues. His unfortunately his wife was and family.
They said, you're just spending too much time on football.
And this was a guy, you know, he was in
his probably early forties, and he had spent his whole

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life as an assistant coach and he finally had this
opportunity to be a head coach and now he was.
But he was a very us a Christian gentleman and
a great family man, and he said, okay, I'm gonna
choose family over football. You don't hear of those stories
very especially. I mean, even getting the head coaching job
at your in your early forties is exactly that time

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was exactly really rare. Yeah, Bill Fulter was his name,
and he was a really good man, really good coach.
So he resigns. And Georgia Tech, you know, they always
liked as many schools did, but Georgia Tech especially had
had a great history. You know, the man that the
Heisman Trophy is named after coached at Georgia Tech, John Heisman.

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They had until about nineteen sixty eight. They had four
head coaches going back to the turn of the century.
So they, you know, they were guys that coached for
thirty five years one school, John Heisman, Bill Alexander, I
forgot his name now, who was ended up Bobby Dodd

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who ended up becoming the athletic director. So they went
out and said, we're gonna find a guy who went
to Georgia Tech, and they chose Pepper Rogers. Now, Pepper
Rodgers had been the coach at Kansas where he coached
the Wishbone. Then he went to UCLA and coached the Wishbone.
You know the NCIS television show. There's a guy named

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Mark Harmon who was on that show and has been forever.
Mark Harmon was their quarterback. He was a fabulous wishbone
quarterback and Pepper Rodgers was the coach. So Tech went
out and they offered Pepper, you know, a lot of
money to leave Ucla because he became a real West
Coast guy, and they offered him a lot of money
to but he came back to his alma mater, Georgia Tech.

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And he brought the Wishbone with him. So that's how
my junior year he brought the Wishbone in. And so
here I am trying to practice spring practice two days
a week with the wishbone offense and run track at
the same time and trying to learn this offense. And
we had a really good wide receiver named Jimmy Robinson

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who ended up playing in the National Football League and
then being a great coach at Green Bay in Atlanta
and the New York Giants terrific wide receiver coach. So
Pepper said, listen, we got to get you on the field,
but Jimmy Robinson is a better wide receiver than you are,
So can you bulk up a little bit because I
want to put you in a tight end. And I said, well, okay.
So I got up to two h five and was

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still running fast, and they said, okay, you're going to
be the tight end, Jimmy is going to be the
wide out, and then we've got, you know, the three
backs back here in the wishbone. And so that's what
we did my junior year and then my senior year.
We kind of worked it so that I would always flex.
I was always on the right side. I'd be at
tight end for about half the plays and I'm widen

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out for about half the plays. And I think the
question was how did I like the wishbone? You know
what it did, Robert, Honest to god, it masked some
of the deficiencies that I had. Did you run? You
you're fast enough. You probably ran tracks, certainly in high school. Everybody,
Yeah ran, I ran track my first two years, and

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it made you, and it made you a faster football player.
But what it also did for me, as a guy
who was six two six two and a half, is
it made me. You know, you come out of the
starting blocks and then you raise up and you're kind
of a straight up runner. All you gotta do was
watch um, all those all the great sprinters that we've
seen over the last half a century, and you end

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up becoming more of a straight up runner. Well pass receiver.
You have to kind of be down, as you know,
keep your arms in tight and you can't drop your arms.
You have to, you know, chop quickly, chop your feet
and get in and out of breaks. I wasn't good
at that, but my speed and the fact that I
could block from a tight end position I played all

(18:01):
the special teams, and I could catch pretty much everything
that was thrown to me, and I could beat most
of the defensive backs. Made me a you know, kind
of an advantage for both Georgia Tech and eventually getting
an opportunity to play in the league. So it actually
was a plus for me. Even though I can't remember,
I think I caught eighteen or twenty passes my senior
year and was the leading receiver by a long shot.

(18:25):
Probably did catch many passes the way right, but they
averaged like twenty five yards a catch because most of
them were you know, run run, run, throw, yeah, and
they were touchdowns. So it was, you know, it was
it was okay. I didn't mind it, and I figured
and I figured if anybody was going to draft me,
which I didn't think anybody would, that they'd teach me

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how to run pass routes. Yeah. So you have a
great career at Georgia Tech. While you're there, you go
through a coaching change, which is something you know, not
a lot of people understand. Man can be you can
think of, you can think about transferring. There's a lot
that goes into when a new coaches just being hired.
Same thing happened to me. I want to state two
thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, and after two

(19:07):
thousand and eight, coach Brent Guy, who was a coach,
he was released and and I thought about going to
Notre Dame. That was my dream school. Actually funny enough
that you mentioned in hopefully decided to stay. I'm not
Catholic or anything either, I do. Well, Okay, that's only
the first thing. I mean, that's the first difference. Okay,

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Utah State and Georgia Tech. But man, old man, if
you married a galling Sharon, Uh, then we're then is
really a coincidence? Right? I haven't, at least not yet. Okay,
when you do, if you get one, guy, did you'll
be lucky? Good n started a chance. We'll see, We'll see, um.
But then you go and you get drafted in second

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round to the Seahawks, which uh not only had a
new coach, but was a brand new franchise, an expansion team.
Ye talk about what that experience was like for you? Uh,
and obviously going to Seattle, now you're in the West coast,

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being from Kentucky. Did you even know Seattle existed before then?
I thought it was probably a Phillips of gas station
on the way to Alaska or China. I mean I had,
I had no idea. I'd never been west of the Mississippi.
And to go back to the drafted part, you know again.

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I played pretty well my junior and senior year. I
was all Southern Georgia Tech was a Southern Independent school
before it became an ACC school, So I was all
Southern Independent first team, and I played a lot, and
I was invited to the Senior Bowl, but I couldn't
cold because I had tore my knee out. So there
was another disadvantage for me. My second to last game,

(20:55):
a guy tried to run through me. I was blocking
and he was trying to run through me to get
to the running back who was eventually running for a touchdown.
And this guy just blew my knee out. So it
blew out media, collateral ligament, cartilage, all at and in
those days, it wasn't like a little incision. It was
one of those big zippers that they put on the
inside of your knee. So I was through for my
senior year. But I got back to where I could

(21:16):
run track again by February. So I rehabed like crazy
from end of November through February and I was running
track again, and so they sent scouts to check me out.
And interestingly, and as I said, I ran a four
three five, and after my knee surgery, I ran a
four to four. So the scouts were kind of looking

(21:37):
at me saying, well, you know, there's we have some
physical things that we can work with here. He seems
smart enough. He's at Georgia Tech, so he could probably
learn whatever offenses. He plays all the special teams. He's
a blocker, he doesn't mind doing all those things. So
the Seahawks were probably one of the teams that talked
to me least in that time leading up to the draft.

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The packers of all teams sent one of their guys
down to h They're one of their receivers who became
a coach, BOYD Dowler. True, Oh my god, one of
my heroes. So he comes down and runs me through
my paces and says, you know, yeah, I can see
the speed, but I can also see how you need

(22:20):
to work. And Dollar was like six five, so he
could teach me how to run pass routes and uh.
And he said, well, our head coach, and I knew
who the head coach was it was Bart Star. So
again ultimate ultimate hero was the head coach of the Packers.
They want to see you, so we're gonna fly you
up to Green Bay and have our doctors check your knee.

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They did check my knee, they said it was okay.
GM takes me down to the locker room where I
am introduced to coach Bart Star. If if I had
dropped dead in the parking lot after that, I'd go
to having a happy man, my friend just to meet,
just to meet Bar Star. I hear you on that one.
And so we had lunch together. We talked and he said, Rabs,

(23:05):
this is or Steve, this is what I'm gonna do.
I'm going to draft you in the third round if
you're there, because we like you. We need a wide receiver.
We think you can play for us. So I said, fabulous.
I mean I'd play for the team that was my
team growing up. Yeah. And as it turned out, the
Seahawks as an expansion team, had two bonus picks after

(23:28):
the second round, so all the first round goes through,
all the second round goes through, and then US and
Tampa Bay were the two expansion teams that year had
two bonus picks. So they chose a Sherman Smith out
of Miami of Ohio running back who ended up becoming
your coach and Smitty. They actually drafted him as a

(23:49):
wide receiver because he was an option quarterback. He was
a great runner with the ball, so they figured, the
Seahawks did what, We'll make him a wide receiver. And
as soon as he came out here for our rookie orientation,
they took one look at this big guy with the
long legs and said, no, you're now our tailback and
that that ended that. And then they took me right
after that as as wide receiver. So I was gone

(24:12):
and the Packers ended up taking a wide receiver not
until the fourth round. But um, you know, it was
sort of that's the way it happened. Like it's it's
it's crazy because it's like your dream team had just
told you we're gonna draft you for sure, and for
most guys, it's like, you know, man, getting drafted, you know,

(24:34):
getting just getting drafted is the greatest you know, I mean,
it's a it's a huge blessing, it's a great accomplishment.
Was there any disappointment? Honestly? When Seattle took you in
a second, knowing one round later you're gonna go to day. Well,
i'll tell you the thing that was interesting was in
those days nineteen seventy six, the spring of seventy six,

(24:57):
there were no big There was no ESPN. There was
no ESPN, let alone ESPN coverage of the draft. There
was none of that. So all I did was I
had an agent who ended up who turns out he
was Pepper Rodgers agent. That's how I got him. And
he said, just sit at home by the phone. So
I told all my professors on that day, whatever it

(25:18):
was a Thursday, I think, or a Friday, I'm not
going to be into class today. I'm going to sit
at home listen by my rotary phone. There was no
such thing as cell phones. There was no such thing
as computers. Nobody carried it on the radio to listen to.
So my agent had an AP Associated Press teletype in

(25:39):
his office and he was keeping track of the draft choices.
So he's the one that saw me pop up as
a bonus pick in the second round. And he got
on the phone and called me and said, okay, you
have just been picked as a bonus pick in the
second round. By the Seattle Seahawks. And my first round,
I'm holding the phone. My reaction is, oh great, and
he said, are you kidding me? Said second round? That's fabulous,

(26:01):
I said, Seattle. I said, I've never heard of the Seahawks.
He said this because it's the first year. Yeah. So uh.
But he said, this is going to be a great
opportunity for you. They don't have a team. They're gonna
build around you young guys. And then I started to
think about him, and I thought, well, you know, hey,
he's right, that actually is a good opportunity. With Green Bay,

(26:22):
I'd be going to a team that not too many
years ago was two time Super Bowl champs. So so
it turned out that. And then a few minutes later,
Jack Potera, the head coach, called me, and then the
offensive coordinator called me, Jerry Rome, and said, okay, um,
we're we're ready for you, and um, you know you're
all gonna be coming out here. You'll get a call
from our football ops people. We're gonna bring you all

(26:44):
out in May for our rookie orientation. Get yourself, make
sure you're in football shape because we're gonna run you
through your paces out here. And they boy, they did.
But yeah, and that's how I that's how I found out, uh,
And then you know, the rest is sort of history.
I came out here, and you know what, I've told
this story to my white Sharon and I were just

(27:06):
talking about this the other day, how much the city
of Seattle has changed even since you played here. The
city looks so much different. But we'd come in. We
came in. I had a taxi driver bringing me in
on Highway ninety nine. So you're kind of coming in
the back way, and you come down the hill after
you've left the airport, and you're winding around and suddenly
the city appears, and there's the sound out on the left.

(27:30):
There's the city in front of you. And it was
a pretty decent day, as I remember, and so you
could see some mountains off in the distance, and there
was the Kingdome right in the foreground, right in the front,
at the very south edge of downtown. And I thought, Wow,
what a beautiful place this is, and what a great
what a great opportunity it's going to be. And so

(27:50):
we went in and had our two and a half
days of practices at the stadium, stayed at the Four
Seasons downtown in Seattle, and it just it just couldn't
have started any better for me. And as you said
a few minutes ago, I was, I was blessed. Well,

(28:11):
you play for Seattle from seventy sixty eight. I mean,
let's get into this, because there much to get into.
There's not much to get into, buddy, you're with Seattle
seventy one. Right after your career, you begin broadcasting, and
we'll get into some of these details here in a minute.
Forty years with Cairo or thirty eight, you said with

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Cairo TV. Basically forty thirty years as the lead anchor.
I mean, I mean you're the longest seahawk ever, seahawk,
always a seahawk. You literally were there from the beginning.
Did you ever imagine it playing out this way? No? No,

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absolutely not. Um. I knew I had a good education.
I got my degree from Georgia Tech in the spring
of seventy six before I came out here, so I
knew I could always fall back on that. And I
had some ideas, you know, a business law, some sort
of management position. I got my degree in industrial management
at Georgia Tech. So I knew I had my education,

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and so we get out here and pretty soon. You know,
the first two years were kind of tough. We were
two and twelve my rookie season. And I'll tell this
story quickly because I told you guys on the pregame
show the other day when somebody said about, you know,
how do you deal with losing all these games? And
what are you thinking? And how do you as a

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player react? And I told the story about nineteen seventy six,
at the end of the season, we went back to
it was either New York of Philadelphia, I don't remember
which to play our last game of the season, and
we were at that point two and eleven and very
likely going to go two and twelve, right, So we
go back there and in fact we lose, and we're
one of the one of the guys, one of the

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veterans whose name I will not use, but one of
the guys in the veteran allocation draft that week told me, hey, rookie,
whatever you do, don't go don't push it, don't go
out and get yourself hurt. None of it's not worth it.
It's the last game of the season, you know, just
just you know, watch yourself get through, stay away from uh,
you know, all that stuff, and I kind of thought,

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you know, I said, well, this guy's a pro. He's
played for five or six years. He knows what he's
talking about. But we went out there, we played, we lost.
Coming back on the plane, um Jack Petera had the
way he did things is all the players sat up
in the front of the plane and the coaches sat
in the very back, and so Jack was sitting on

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the in his seat and he would send one of
the one of the ball one of the ball guys
up and tap us on the shoulder and brought us
back one at a time. The young guys. The first
guy was large, and I think second guy was Zorn.
Sherman was probably the third. Smitty I was fourth or
fifth guy that he said, come on back, and so

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I sat down in the seat next to him, and
he said, Steve, and I, you know, I had an
okay season. I didn't catch many passes. I caught an
eighty yard touchdown pass against Minnesota, so I had a
few catches, and I was on all the special teams,
and I backed up Largent and Zorn both positions flanker
and wide out, and played in the tight end slot too.
When we went blue formation, so I could do all

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those things. He said, Steve, you know it was an
okay year for your rookie season. He said, we expected
more out of everybody, and he said me included being
the coach. But he said, take a look up front.
You see all those guys up there. I said, yes, sir.
He said, most of those guys are not going to
be here next year, but you will be, and the
nucleus of this team will be and so you have

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to start figuring out how you wanted this team to
look next year, how we want to play next year,
how successful we're going to be next year. And so
in our second year, thanks in large measure to Large
and Zorn, we were there. We won the we want
say games, and our third year we went nine and seven,

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missed the playoffs by a game, I think, and we're
the winningest team in the first three years of a
franchise ever in the history of the NFL. So he
was right about that. He had put together a pretty
good nucleus and we were having some good drafts and
adding to it, and so that made it fun and
made it exciting, and we played We played a fun
brand of football. We threw the ball around the yard

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and Smitty ran like crazy. And I can tell you this,
the year he got hurt, that was a tough year
on us. Oh man, he was so good and he
was so smart and such a great such a great person.
And one of the things that I know you you
think this too. One of the things I always remember
is yes, I can remember some of the games, and

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I remember the joy of winning on a Sunday afternoon.
But the thing I remember most are the people and
the players and my former teammates, of whom I still
keep in very close touch. I see Zorn on a
regular bases. Sam Adkins, one of our backup quarterbacks. You know, oh,
Jacob Green, I see him all the time. These guys
are their brothers to me and always will be. And

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that that is the greatest gift that Pro football. Well,
the second greatest gift that Pro football gave me. I'm
glad you asked. The first was and it wasn't actually
Pro football that gave it to me, but this opportunity
to be here in Seattle. We played the Raiders in

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nineteen seventy eight, I think we played them both years.
We were in the AFC West in those years, so
We played him twice a year for all most all
of my career, and it was either seventy eight or
seventy nine. We had beaten them here in Seattle, and
this was at a time when the Raiders were really good,
you know, John Madden was the coach. They were they
had great teams. And we beat him here, and so

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we go to Oakland to play him down there, and
I had I caught a touchdown pass that game, and
caught about two or three other passes. And we're coming
down to the end of the game and we're trailing
by I want to say, we're trailing by a couple
of points, and we're trying to get into position to

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kick field goal to win the game. We call I
was lined up in the in the slot as a
tight end, winged off the right side, and we called
a crossing route. We had a two layer route Large.
It was running an end route behind me, and I
was running the underneath route. And if they jumped me large,
it was going to pop open. I mean, you know,
pretty simple. And so I can't see what the guys

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behind me are doing, the safeties or whatever. But I
crossed the middle and here comes the ball. Toward me.
It's a little bit behind me, and I start to
reach back. Well, a guy named Jack Tatum was the
safety for the Oakland Raiders. Now his nickname was Assassin
and there was a reason for that, and he hit
me in the ear hole. And the next thing I remember,

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I was standing on the sidelines with the doctor and
he was kind of saying, Okay, what's your name. How
many fingers am I holding up? I said Tuesday. He said, okay,
you're fine. So I got knocked completely unconscious by by
Jack Tatum. We ended up moving into field goal range.
Efren Herrera kicks the game winning field goal and we
go screaming off the field and I have no idea why,

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because I just got knocked unconscious. I go into the
hospital that night after flying home with the team, and
I got the wires all attached because they were they
were afraid I really had a bad concussion. Yeah, it
turns out I was okay, I was. They saw that
I was as dumb as they thought they were, and
there was no issue with a brain injury, so they said, okay,
you can go home and on Tuesday's like you guys,

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Tuesday's the player's day off. Right. So Monday night was
the night if you were going to go out and
have an adult beverage or something with the boys, that's
when you did it. On Monday, I had agreed to
go to a dinner party. Had a buddy of mine
who worked at a radio station, not Cairo Radio, but
a different radio station, and he said, we want to
have you over to dinner. I want you to meet

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my wife. Okay, great. So I didn't feel very good,
and you know I had a bad headache, and you
know how when you get up concussion you're sick at
your stomach. But I said, well, I said I'd go,
so I'd go. It turned out there was one other
single person invited to that. There were like ten people
at this dinner party, and there was only one other
single person, And it turned out that it was somebody

(36:30):
they wanted me to meet, a young lady. They wanted
me to meet that young lady has been my wife
now for forty years. Wow. So the greatest gift I
got of coming to see Adelin playing football was meeting
my bride and being married all these years. The second
greatest gift is being a part of this organization that

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treated us so well. And that has so many guys
that love this team and come back to this team
on a regular basis that we can see and talk to.
And it's and in a city that gave me an
opportunity to get into broadcasting, which I'm sure we'll talk about.
We'll talk about in a second. I want to I
want to ask one last thing about the expansion. You know,

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we talked about kind of your experience as a player,
but what was it like in the city. What was
the vibel You know, we're fans excited about the opportunity
to have a team, and what were some of the
challenges you guys faced as a as a as an
expansion team. The best example I can give you is

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that season tickets sold out literally sixty thousand of in
a matter of hours. Wow. So Kingdom was was filled.
The city was just crazy to get NFL football here.
They had tried on a couple of different occasions and
the league just didn't expand until they decided to expand.
So and you had to have the right group of people,

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you know, the north Ardstrom family were the leaders of
the group, but there were other members of the ownership
group in those days, and the city was just beside
itself crazy for football. And yeah, like I said, we
went to in twelve that first year, and you'd have
never known it by the fans in the stands. The
Kingdom was always packed. They were always cheering. It was

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the loudest place in the league to play a football game.
I don't know if you wouldn't remember, but in the
it would have been in the early eighties. I retired
in after the eighty one season, about eighty three eighty four,
and it was so noisy in the Kingdom. The league
instituted a rule that if a quarterback stepped back from

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the line of scrimmage because he couldn't be heard by
his offensive lineman or wide receivers, the home team would
have a penalty thrown on him. A flag would be
thrown on the home team for noisy, And all that
did was make the fans crazier, right, So they just
loved having the Seahawks here. And one of the great

(39:04):
things about that was the opportunity that a guy like
me had to get out in the community. Because any
place that a Seahawk went to make an appearance, a
grade school, a cub scout troop, a rotary club, meeting.
We had these opportunities, and some of us did everything

(39:25):
that we were asked to do, and then some we
were kind of go to guys, and mostly because I
enjoyed it. And after my first couple of seasons, I
started to get interested in media, and I thought, well,
how best can I train except getting up in front
of a group of people and talking at luncheons and
classroom visits and all that stuff. So it was a

(39:48):
great opportunity, and the city was just really everybody was
up for that. Everybody was dying for that kind of stuff.
So it offered us opportunities in ways that we really
didn't know when we first started. But as the years
went on, it became a parent that, yeah, this this
is a great place, a great city, great fans and

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uh and and wonderful opportunity. It's kind of funny how
some of those things that were going on in your time.
You talk about the brotherhood with your teammates, and you
talk about the fans and how loud the Kingdom you
know was, and that has sustained even to today's football

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you know, Central Link and now Looming Field and stuff
like that. Uh. It really, I mean, it's really really
great to really great to hear. Um. I wanted to
ask about nineteen eighty one. Okay, that was your final year, um,
and I think you suffered an injury that year, collapsed

(40:53):
love from exactly and uh, and so did that play
a part into your decision to retire And what was
the transition like for you, you know, going essentially leaving
football and really stepping right into the broadcasting right, Well,

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it did have an effect. Yeah. It was in preseason
against the then Saint Louis Cardinals, and I you know,
how many times have you run an eight yard out route,
you know, ten thousand times in your career, And on
this particular occasion, a guy hit me in the back,
just in the right spot, and then I rolled kind
of flew off the field, and the guy holding the

(41:37):
downmarker did not release the downmarker, so I kind of
bent the downmarker flying into it. And I got up
and I went back to the huddle, and I was
starting to have a tough time catching my breath, and
I ran a couple of takeoff routes, clearing out routes,
you know, down the signs. By this time, I'm really
having a hell of a time breathing and I come
to the sidelines and the trainers just the trainer looked

(41:58):
at me and he said, oh, you're just out of shape.
And I said, no, Jimmy, I something's wrong here. I said,
it feels like somebody stabbing me in my ribs. And
he said, well, it sounds like a collapse lung. But
you can't have a collapse lung. Well, sure enough, the
doctor checked me over and he said, well, let's get
him in the back and take a look. And they
actually and said, man, you're lungs collapsed. I said, okay, great,

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So they take me to the hospital and that was
the end of my season up until Game eight. I
had to miss the first I went on IR, so
I had to miss the first eight games. I came
back played the last eight. Didn't do a whole lot
because they had a guy who ended up replacing me
as a rookie that year in that third wide receiver spot,
and his name was Paul Johns. And you know Paul

(42:41):
from the organization. He's been there ever since as well.
And Paul was a terrific receiver and punt returner and
ended up having his career cut short by injury. So
but and a great guy and a great teammate, and
so I came back and I played, but not a
whole lot. But the good thing for me, Robert, was

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because in those first couple of three years doing all
those speaking engagements got me lots of interview opportunities on
radio and television and with the newspaper guys. And pretty
soon by about my third and fourth year, some of
the folks at Cairo Radio. You know, at one time

(43:22):
seven ESPN was Cairo Radio AM, and that was all
part of the Cairo Umbrella TV. Radio all was in
one building, so they were they were calling me and saying, hey,
why don't you come down and co host the sports
line talk show on Saturday night with the guy who
does it? And I said, great, I'd love to. So

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I came down and spent three hours with him on
the air. Then in the off season, they said, how
would you like to come in and fill in on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday when he's going to be gone two
hours of live radio sports talking. It was the only
sports talk show on the air at the time. And
I said, man, I'd love to, you know, thinking that
how tough caness be? Well, I learned pretty quickly that

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it was not the easiest thing in the world. I
had to be prepared and all those things. And then
the same thing happened on TV side. I started doing
some commercials and got some opportunities, and then was called, say, hey,
would you come and fill in for this guy who
does a half hour talk show five nights a week
on TV over at Channel five. We'd love to have
you come down and do that. Or we'd love for

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you to fill in on the morning show two hours
live TV on Channel five. Come and do that, Come
and co host telethons at Channel seven. I mean, all
these opportunities started coming to me, and so I took
every opportunity. And so by the time my eighty one

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season was over, and also the last game of the season,
I rolled my ankle on a kickoff coverage and ended
up spending the holidays in a walking boot because I
tore some ligaments in my ankle. So it was really
a terrible year in a terrible way to finish, and
so I started really looking closely at broadcasting. But by

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that late in that spring, we hired a coach just
for getting everybody in shape. We didn't have one of
those guys. Before we didn't have a physical trainer guy.
Now they had twelve of them. Well, we didn't have them.
We had a trainer, and then one of the assistant
coaches would generally help out with that kind of stuff.
This guy, his name was Joe Vitt, and Joe coached
in the league for years in New Orleans and other places.

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Joe killed us, absolutely killed us. And I was in
the best shape of my life. So in June of
nineteen eighty two, I'm all set to go to training camp,
which started in early July. Mid July, and Sharon gets
a phone call at our house. I'm in Spokane at
a charity golf tournament, and it's Pete Gross, who is

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the play by play voice of the Seahawks. Pete is
the guy who had been there since day one, and
now this is nineteen eight two. So he was the
guy and he could and he knew me because I
had done radio work at the station, right, And so
he called and he says, Sharon, listen. The first thing
he said was, you know, we know Steve is never
going to be Steve Largent. And I thought, well, great, Bete, thanks,

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that's that's that's a nice way to start the conversation.
He was right, of course, but he said, but and
he can probably play another couple of years, but he
could have a career in broadcasting because as of yesterday,
meaning nineteen eighty two, we are are the position of

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color analysts on the radio show on the radio broadcast
just opened up, and we think Steve could do that.
And the backup sportscaster on TV, that job just opened up.
And the five night a week magazine show on Channel
seven Monday through Friday at seven o'clock US opened up.

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The co anchor of that show just opened up. Wow,
And we think Steve could do all three of those jobs.
There's only one catch. He's got to quit playing football. Yeah.
So Sharon said when do you need to know? And uh,
And he said, well, I'd like to know next week.
And Sharon said, I'll have him there on Monday. So well,

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and you know, she told me all about the conversation
and we sat down when I got back and talked
about it and it was really there was really no
there was really no decision to be made. I mean,
it was the it was the smart move here. I
had an opportunity for a career a lifetime career as
opposed to maybe playing a couple of more seasons in
a diminished role, because I knew Paul Johns was now

(47:46):
moving into that that role as as the backup wide receiver.
And as it turned out, a guy named Sam McCullum,
who was this guy who started opposite Steve all those
six years at wide out. He was the ex Steve
as the Z and I backed him both up. Sam,
as it turned out in eighty two, was released by
the team as well. So if he got released, I

(48:08):
knew my days were numbered, and so as it turned out,
it was a good decision to go ahead and retire.
So that was how and literally within two weeks I
was working at Cairo and in nineteen eighty two I
was on radio with the first and in those days
we had six preseason games, so I was on the
air with the first preseason game, and then I was

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doing TV stories on the foot on the team as
well as on the Sonics and everything else that was
sports in the city, and five nights a week we
tape the shows. But it was on five nights a
week doing this magazine show, and that's how I started
my TV career and I did that all three of
those jobs. For the first four years I was at Cairo,

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and then the magazine show went away and I was
made the anchor of the new News, which was an
hour long newscast at the time, and then it continued
to do sports, and then pretty soon it all evolved
into news, and by ninety two I was the main
news anchor and was that until a year and a
half ago. Wow wow, man so but but hey, Turbo,

(49:19):
right place at the right time, and being and being
lucky that they gave me opportunities to do this, you know,
they they could have just said, Hey, we're gonna get
some guy who's got longer here. Honest to God, When
I first started in the business, I sounded like a
girl scout and and that's and I don't mean to
demean girl scouts, because they're fabulous, but by you know,

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I kind of was like this, and I didn't know
how to really talk. And pretty soon when I reached puberty,
then everything started to get better and I could I
could speak a little bit, you know, more distinctly and
be understood. And the voice kind of lent itself at
that point to becoming more of a broadcast Esther and
that's where we are today. But you know it was.

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I just can't tell you how lucky I was to
have all these opportunities, Honest to God. I mean every
day I say, I'm blessed. Such an amazing journey man.
We uh, that's an amazing journey man. We're about We're
about at our five to ten minute mark. There's a
couple of questions that I want to ask you though,

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before you know throw the show. One of them said
that you started as a color analyst before becoming the
play by play and I'm just curious which which do
you like better? Did you liked doing the color analysts
or do you like to play by play stuff better.

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I can tell you that when I started, I liked
being the analyst because you know, it's right up your alley.
You're preparing like a guy who's preparing for the game.
I knew that job. I knew all those things that
those guys were doing out on the field. But and
I had the opportunity to move over to be the
play by play guy in two thousand and four. Well
by that time I had been also, as I said,

(51:08):
the main news anchor at Cairo since ninety two. So,
and I don't say this with any ego or anything,
but I got pretty used to being the main guy
when I was anchoring the news. So at that point
in football, I figured, you know, I don't have I
know how to do this job as analyst. There's only

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one other position that would be a step up in
the broadcast of a pro football game, in the play
by play, and that is the play by play seat.
And again, as luck would have it, the Seahawks had
an opportunity to hire Warren Moon as the color analyst.
Now here was a guy who was going to go
in literally the following year went into the Hall of Fame,

(51:50):
one of the great NFL quarterbacks of all times from
the University of Washington. So the Seahawks came to me.
Mike Homeriden was the coach at that time, and of
course mister Allen was still the owner of the team,
and the general manager came and they can you do this?
We have this opportunity. Do you think you can do

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play by play? And I said, just give me a chance,
And so I practiced. I had. I went and sat
in a room at the old Seahawks facility and they
put game film up on the screen, and I just
worked at it, and pretty soon preseason rolled around and
we did the preseason games and they started to feel comfortable,

(52:34):
and then more and more, and once we got into
the regular season, and I had people I talked to,
people who would listen and critique me and say, here's what, okay,
try this. In fact, there was a guy here in
the in the radio market of Seattle. Ask any old
timer in this city who Pat O'Day was. Pat O'Day
was one of the great, one of the great disc

(52:57):
jockeys of all times. He's in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in Cleveland as a radio disc jockey,
and he had he sponsored concerts here. He and Jimmy
Hendricks were literally like this, and he virtually discovered Jimmy Hendricks. Anyway,
Pat was a good friend, and he did hydroplane races
and all kinds of things on radio, and he would

(53:18):
help critique me. And he's the one who said, after
my first year, he said, you know, when you call
a touchdown, why don't you extend that a little bit,
Why don't you say touchdown Seahawks and just kind of
let it breathe and let the fans kind of get
that excitement. That was suggestion from him, and I've been

(53:38):
doing it ever since and it's now it's just part
of my I mean, in my DNA. Yeah right. But
one thing I always learned, I was always coachable. I mean,
you know, just like a sponge. I learned from all
the people that I worked with at Cairo Television. I
learned from Pete Gross listening to him, watching him, watching
how he prepared, how did he call a game, how

(54:01):
much fun he made the game, And that's the whole idea.
And like the other day, you know, the loss to
the Bears, my job is to find a way to
make those exciting plays exciting and try not to get
you know, disappointed as we all were in the outcome
of the game. And it's tough to do because you know,

(54:23):
as a player, and you know all those guys that
are playing, and I know what they're trying to do,
and I know Pete in their system, the last thing
they want to do is go out there and lose
a football game. And they're trying, they're busting their butts,
and sometimes you don't win them. And this season has
been a real route awakening for fans and players and
everybody alike that you know, sometimes you're you're you're gonna

(54:46):
have a season like this, and you know it's time
to kind of retool a little bit, regroup and and
find yourself next season. But again, so I got that
opportunity and it's been a great blessing and I now
I love it. Could I go back and be the analyst,
I probably could, but I'd probably at this point say,
you know, we'll let Turbo be the analyst, and we'll

(55:08):
let Big Ray do the play by play and I'll
ride off into the sunset on in my little wheelchair scooter.
There you go, or the other way around. Because I
think Ray probably does a good job analyzing the game.
I think I do a good job too, But I
think I could bring some juice calling it. Would you
like to do that? Would you like to do play
by play? I would do that. I play party. The

(55:30):
only way you can do it is to work at
it right now, you know, get opportunities and just and
just do it. And because you know, I mean, I
know I'm not going to be doing this job forever,
and there is something about having a former player do
play by play in my time having done this now
since two thousand and four is play by play. There

(55:51):
are only three guys who were former players that moved
from the analyst job into play by play coincidentally, all
three wide receivers. And what that says. I don't know
what that says about us, but I guess we're always
looking for attention. But Jimmy Cephalo in Miami, Dave Logan

(56:12):
in Denver, and myself and so we all say the
same thing as when we talk, and that is that
job as being the analyst was invaluable because it got
us that opportunity to I know, I can carry the
conversation during the live broadcast, and I know football well
enough that I can make I can make sense of

(56:34):
what's happening on the field. Now, the only question is
can you translate that into phrasing and verbiage that the
listener A wants to listen to and B can follow
you and see can excite them and get them so
that they're just absolutely wanting to jump through the radio
dial to be a part of that broadcast. And that's

(56:56):
the fun part. And I have no doubt that you
could do that all right, last question, even though like
fifteen more, really sorry, I apologize at it. I get going. No,
it's all good, It's all good. But I'd be remissed
if I didn't ask about um this because you know,
I want to ask about your you know, best member
of Seattle even that's probably a tough question, and you

(57:19):
know things that you're most proud of. It's probably meeting
your wife, uh but uh. And you know, there's been
so many different errors of football here in Seattle with
coach Terry and Coach Knox and Homegren and Carolyn Man.
I would love to see you've seen it all each one,
and so to get your kind of your scope of

(57:41):
what each Arab meant to the franchise would be great.
But we'll save that one for another time. The question
I want to ask you is you've called three different
Super Bowls, and so what did super Bowl forty eight,
the one that we won, uh mean to you? I
can't tell you terrible how that meant having been there

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from day one, to be a part of the organization
that and to be able then to sit up there
in the press box and watch you guys play and
be so dominant for the entire season and then again
through the playoffs. When she got past San Francisco, right
on into the Super Bowl and just just annihil a Denver.

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It was so so satisfying, so amazing, so fulfilling to
be a part of the organization and to know all
of the people that I have known over all these
years that were also longtime members of the club, people

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like Gary Wright, who was so instrumental to me becoming
a broadcaster and a play by play guy. Sandy Gregory,
who I know you have done, you did charity stuff
with and for for so many years. She was part
of the organization for over thirty years. You know, there
are just so many of these folks. To win it,
and to have John Nordstrom be there and be a

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part of it, who was one of the owners when
I came on board in seventy six, there were just
so many of those those folks, and in forty eight
is Super Bowl forty eight. To win it the way
you did it, first of all, and the huge satisfaction,
the joy of being able to call the game. I'm

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often asked what's your favorite call, because I've done so
I've had, you know, I had beast Quake, both beast
Quake runs, as you know, but my favorite call of
all time was twelves, they're bringing the trophy home. You
were Seahawks super Bowl forty eight champions, one of the
last things I said before the clock actually ticked down
in New York that night. My favorite call of all

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times because it was the first and only call, the
only time that the Seahawks could ever say we're Super
Bowl champions on this night. So that meant a lot
to me. And running a very close second to that
was your parade a couple of days later. To be
on one of those uh cars and what wagons duck

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mobile and to ride through the streets and we froze
our butts off, as I remember, but and and and um,
what's his name, beast Mode? Marshawn refused to give me
any of his hennessy, So I knew I was gonna
I knew I was gonna just be freezing that day.
So but but the satisfaction of looking up those and

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you know what, you saw it looking up those side streets,
and it was wall to wall people. And the best
thing about it, Turbot was every age, every you know, men, women,
every gender, every every race and creed and color age group,
all side by side, all there for one thing to celebrate,

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celebrate the city, the team, the championship. That meant so
much because I've been in Seattle for so long and
it really did my heart good to just look out
and see all those people and what it meant to
all of them. It to this day, it just it
brings me to a point because it the title meant

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so much. And then you know, the guys gave me
a ring. They said, here, you deserve a ring, and
I thought, no, I don't, but they said, no, you do,
so here you go. So I got one, probably not
quite as good as yours, but I gotta. I got
a ring out of it, and I and and that's
that's a that's a plus. So you know, again, as
I said when we first started, I'm blessed and uh
and lucky to be here and hope to be able

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to do it for a few more years. You know,
I'm I'm shooting for fifty I'm shooting for fifty years.
That's a nice round number. With the organization, this is
forty six. And nobody wants to end. Nobody wants to
end it on a way this this season has ended,
So we want to come back and and retool and
get set for next year. And I love working with
Pete uh and you know, Russ and the guys. I've

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gotten to know so many young guys like yourself. It's
just been a real treat. Awesome man. Well, Steve, thanks
so much for taking the time to hop on Seahawks
stories and uh, you know, sure your an amazing journey
with this man. I man, I feel so fulfilled just
hearing all the things that you went through and accomplished

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and still doing it, you know, And so I really
appreciate it. Well from from a couple of guys little
leaguers for the Bears who did not go to Notre Dame, right, Um,
I appreciate it, right. And all I can tell you,
Turbo is you've done a magnificent job. You You really

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have taken to this. I'm proud of you. I would
not have known, Matt when you played that you that
you'd be this good at it. But I'm I'm constantly
amazed at all of you guys that stepped forward, You
and Ray and Moyer's been doing it for years, and
Brian Walters who came on board and does it, you know,
and Bump. I mean, I'm just so proud of all

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you guys, and you do a great job. And for
those of us old broadcasters, you make us uh, you know,
we have a lot of pride in you, so keep
it up. Well. They'll hesitate to share any advice with me,
Man mass Every week he sends me a copy of
the broadcast, and I'm always texting them to say, hey,
would you think? And he's always giving me coaching points man,
and I and I really take I really take heath

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to those things. So you know, I want to be
the best that I can be, you know. But for you,
it's good for you. And he's a good coach. So
listen to him and keep after it, and you'll you'll
do anything you want to do in this business. All right.
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