February 17, 2025 • 35 mins
In the first hour, Dave Mahler and Jackson Felts kick off the annual President’s Day Show as Softy starts with a conversation with Seahawks President Chuck Arnold then they react to what Arnold had to say about not utilizing the Ring of Honor this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where college basketball on one side, I got MLB Network
on the other side. I got the horse racing channel
on the other side, and right next to that is
freaking Rogue one.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I gotta take a picture of this man. We gotta
come down here one of these days when it's like
after ten o'clock and all the games are over already
and throw up like the Star Wars trilogy on the
big screen here at the Emeral Queen Casino. I might
even stay overnight for that. For crying out loud. Well,
we're here at the Emeral Queenen Casino hanging out until
six pm.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Chuck and Bucker back at six o'clock with Dan Wilson,
Rick Riz Ryan Ryan blescuse me, they're daily spring training
a recap show. They're down there all week long in
Peri in the purious use me courtesy in part of
our friends at the Emerald Queen Casino. We got a
big one. Our annual President's Day Show will begin next segment.
Chuck Arnold gonna join us from the Seahawks. He'll be
(00:54):
first up. Kevin Martinez, the brand new president of Business Operations,
will join us at four o'clock today and for everybody
out there hoping we're gonna bust his balls about the
DH spot, the first base position, the lack of acquisitions
over the offseason. That's not really under his umbrella. By
the way, he is the director of business, the president
of business operations, not the president of baseball operation. So
(01:18):
I don't know if you'll be hearing Jerry to Poto
much on my show.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, and I think people understand this is very
much a business orientally. This is the presidential business oriented day.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I mean, yes it is. It is in some ways
and in some ways it isn't.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I mean the way that these things are now done
that most teams have a president of baseball operations, football operations,
basketball operations, hockey operations, soccer operations, whatever, and then you
got the business side. So for the most part, like
Hugh Weber, for example, is he actually the president of
business operations for the Sounders?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Is his?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That is his exact title? Okay? Perfect? So he will
join us at five point thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Aaron Hartman, who's just the flat out president of the Rainiers,
will join us at five forty five. Todd LAIWICKI, who
I don't even think technically is the president. I think
he's now the CEO right of the Kraken, But for
our purposes today, we're gonna act like he's the president,
coming up at five o'clock and Todd is gonna be
able to talk about a lot of stuff, including the
timeline for the NBA what's going on there. You know,
(02:14):
it kind of feels like a lot of us are
waiting on the Celtics thing to get taken care of
before they can move on and get the Sonics and
me either Vegas or Mexico City or Vancouver or whatever
back in the mix. So, you know, I thought by now,
and I've been saying for the last couple of years,
that by the end of twenty twenty four, which came
and went, you know, a month and a half ago,
that we were.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Going to have some news on expansion. And it hasn't
happened yet.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I think because of the Boston Celtics sale still not happening,
and that thing kind of holding up the entire picture.
So as soon as you hear news on the Boston thing,
we should then be closer to hearing stuff on the
return of the Sonics. But I also thought it was
interesting that Adam Silver did his All Star weekend press
conference in San Francisco over the weekend, Jackson and nobody
(02:57):
asked him at all about expansion, Like wasn't brought up,
and it typically is. Every time the commissioner talks, expansion
is brought up. So we got Todds joining us at five.
From a hockey perspective, I think the question is, hey, look,
are we looking at a complete rebuild now with this
hockey team if they don't make the playoffs this year?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Or is it more of a retooling? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So we'll talk to him about that, The Memorial Stadium project,
the return of the NBA. Chuck Arnold's gonna be with
us next segment from the Seahawks, and obviously the big
questions for Chuck are will the Seahawks be playing overseas
this year? You saw the Rams are playing in Australia.
Not this season, but in twenty twenty six. Is there
a chance the Seahawks could be joining them as a
divisional foe? When will the throwback games be any changes
(03:42):
to loom and field, the uniforms, all that stuff. And
then for Kevin Martinez, look, Kevin Martinez has had his
name mentioned on this radio station many many, many times
in the thirty one years almost that I've been here
now with the station. But it's always been about a
marketing perspective, right because that was his gig. He ran
the marketing department and ran it very well at the Mariners.
(04:03):
Now he's in charge of everything business related, like, for example,
are we going to see another Jersey get retired this year?
Are we going to see another you know, maybe change
to t Mobile Park, the batter's eye, moving the fences
in things like that. What about changes to the menu
the concessions. Everybody always wants to know for some reason
(04:26):
about the freaking food at the ballpark. Will there be
some new bugs that we can buy now, some new
insects that we can buy at the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So we'll talk to Kevin about that.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I want to find out about, you know, about each
hero if he plans on speaking English at his Hall
of Fame induction ceremony, which I think would be awesome,
by the way, if you can pull off something like that.
So he'll join us Hugh Weber with a ton of
World Cup stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
When are we going to start to see changes to
lumen Field to accommodate club World Cup. The World Cup
coming up in about what a year and a half
or so from now, Jackson Club World Cup happening this summer,
would Chuck, will the Seahawks be playing on natural grass
at all this year and next year because of the
World Cup coming into town. Those are the kinds of
things that we'll be going over, starting with Chuck Arnold
(05:07):
in about twelve minutes from now.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And I think all of this all revolves exactly the
way we I think we spend so much time talking
about the on the field side and one of the
mannors going to fix their lineup and one of those
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Fair, It is very fair.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But I think today taking President's Day, is a great
day to take a look at the other side of
the business operations for all of our local teams. And
today is an we're getting it right from the source.
All these important questions that do deserve time to get
talked about, like the grass situation, like the stadium situation.
I mean, what kind of massive renovation needs to happen
to lumin for events like the World Cup to come.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And I would love to see the Seahawks play on grass.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I think, yeah, awesome, you know, obviously you'd have to
have an incredible dradage system there, there's no doubt. But
aren't they always saying it never rains at lumin Field
things like that? So if it never rains at lumin
then what the hell we worried about? For crying out loud,
But I think it'd be fantastic. I mean, I'm kind
of an old school guy in that regard. I frankly
think all football games should be played in the mud
and the dirt on Saturday or Sunday or Friday night.
(06:05):
And I don't think that's ever gonna happen here because
of exactly what we talked about, the drainage problems. But
how freaking cool would it be, even if just for
one or two games, maybe even one week, If there's
an overlap with the Club World Cup and the World
Cup next year in twenty twenty six, where the Hawks
could end up playing on actual grass at Luminfield for
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the very first time ever, would be freaking amazing. So
I know people of your ILK are concerned about the
kits at the Sounders. Will there be a third kit
introduced at some point in time because apparently two's not enough, man, right,
you gotta have three. You want to buy the same
thing fifteen different freaking ways.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's people like you that keep those guys in business, dude.
So we'll talk to Hugh Weber about all of that.
But we got a lot to get to. We're gonna
keep a couple of open segments today, I think around
three forty five and four forty five to kind of
breathe a little bit. Of the schedule today is gonna
be Chuck Arnold from the Seahawks will join us next segment,
Kevin Martinez from the Mariners at four anamar a cause
(07:04):
is the outgoing president that ub she's actually on the job,
I think.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Until June or July. I think it's June.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
She'll join us at four thirty and talk about Robert Jones,
who's the new UDA president from Illinois. What about going
to the Big ten to move to the Big ten
after a year? What is she gonna do when she
leaves to make sure the Huskies are ready? You know,
there's been a lot of questions about, hey, with all
these bills piling up for the athletic department, because that
simply mean the school's got to take more kids and
(07:31):
just make more money, you know, bring on a higher
enrollment number. So we'll talk to onamar A Cawsey about
that at four thirty, Todd Liwiki on what's going on
with the KRACK and obviously the future of the NBA,
the Memorial Stadium project and more at five, Hugh Weber
from the Sounders at five thirty, and we'll wrap it
up with Aaron Hartman from The Rainiers coming.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Up at five forty sivee tonight, soazy, I just have
one question for you with it, With so much we
have to get to and so much we have to
do today, how the hell are you gonna focus?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
With rogue one on in the background. I'm not focusing.
What was that I didn't hear? Yeah about right me?
This is gonna be you.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You faced a lot of challenges in your career. This
is gonna be quite the challenge for you today.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So freaking cool man. All right, we'll get a break.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Chuck Arnold, the president of your Seattle Seahawks, gonna join
us our annual President's Day show is is underway.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We'll start with Chuck Arnold.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Coming up next segment, Kevin Martinez at for his first
visit with us officially as the president of business ops.
He took over that role that was vacated by Katie
Griggs when she took off to go worked for the
Orioles last year. He'll join us you to President Onamara cause,
Hugh Weber from the Sounders, Aaron Hartman from the Rainiers,
and a lot more, Todd Lwicki as well as we
(08:41):
continue from the Emerald Queen Casino on this President's Day Monday,
Chuck Arnold. We'll kick it off next on ninety three
to three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick on your Home for
the Huskies and the Creaking Sports Radio ninety three kjr FL.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
All right, boys and girls, we are back here on
a President's Day Monday, and as is tradition on this
radio show, our President's Day Show continues right here on ninety.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And what President's Day Show would be complete without a
visit from the presidents of the Seattle Seahawks. Our friend
Chuck Arnold joining us right now on President's Day. Chuck,
First of all, great to have you back on the show.
Appreciate you doing this, and you know the droll my friend,
let's start off with a State of the Union address
on the state of the Seahawks on this President's Day,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well, first off, Happy President's Day to you and everybody
else out there. We're humming right now. We've got just
great energy in the building, coming off winning our last
six or winning six of our last eight games. Now
I say that we're disappointed we didn't make the playoffs.
We were the first team to win ten games in
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this new playoff format not to make the play offs.
So we're looking forward. We're excited to celebrate our fiftieth
season this year, which is going to be great. We're
focused on making Lumen Field the best home field advantage
in the NFL. We've got one hundred and eighty consecutive sellouts.
We're going to push that forward and we love it
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when coach McDonald just said he wants to make lumen
Field a nightmare to play in, and we're going to
work together on that. We're going to create really cool
ideas and just you're going to see some new things
happening this year that just engages the crowd and gets
the crowd just fired up going out on the Lumitfield side,
we're busier than heck, We've got a full summer of concerts,
club World Cup coming. There's just lots of exciting things
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from a lumen Field perspective as well.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
There's a lot to respond to right there.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And first of all, why don't we just talk about
this being the fiftieth anniversary. I don't know where you
were in the mid seventies, but I was four years
old when this franchise launched a way back in the day.
So the fact that we've both been around for I
think you have every single Seahawks seasons pretty amazing. It
makes me feel damn old. I can tell you that
right now, Chuck. But let's just talk about kind of
what the fans should expect to see in relation to
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celebrating the fiftieth season all time of Seahawk football.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, I think I beat you by a couple of years,
but pretty close. Yeah, because when we look at it
fifty seasons, you know, we're really excited about and recognize
a lot of the great moments in our history. We're
going to do that in a variety of ways all
year long, not just a game here and there. We're
going to identify top fifty players the fans vote here
we had last season, so you're going to see us
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announce that there's some great names on that and what
a difficult process that was to narrow down to fifty.
But we're going to celebrate those fifty. There's just there's
just a ton that's coming up that the fans are
going to have a chance to look forward to. But
each game is going to have a fiftieth anniversary element
to it, and then not even game days, but just
throughout the whole entire season, you're going to see us
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were a lot of quite a bit of cool things.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
People all way want to know if there are any
number retirement or Ring of honor ceremonies plan for twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
What can you tell us in that regard?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
No Ring of honor ceremonies planned right now. I think
this year our focus is that fiftieth season. You know,
we're really excited to celebrate those you know, top fifty players,
some great moments and just you know, fifty seasons. So
we're going to we're going to kind of put that
ring of honor conversation on hold for the twenty twenty
five season.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Gotcha, well, not that you guys care what I think,
but I'm going to offer up an idea anyway. I
think an honor of the fiftieth season would be really
great if you charged fifty cents for beer the entire season.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
You never know what we're going to come up with,
but I'll take that into consideration.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, please do Chuck Arnold with US Seahawk President on
this President's Day Show Monday.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And the other big one that people want to know about.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
There's a couple of them, obviously, but the throwback games
obviously have been very popular. You know, just started doing
that a couple of years ago after a long, long,
long wait, and we assume there will be at least
one throwback game this year and one moving forward every season.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Oh yeah, we love the throwbacks and what it's it's
done just since relaunching those a couple of years ago.
There will be a game. There are probably multiple games,
so yeah, definitely look forward to throwbacks again this coming season.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I know the dates aren't out yet for the schedule,
but do we have any idea of the opponents yet,
Chuck for those throwback games?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
No, we're gonna wait till kind of the dates line
out and then we'll then we'll say, Okay, this is
going to be a great one. I think last year
we did the home opener, it made sense. I think
we were against the Broncos. So yeah, brought us back
to that AFC West and let's see how the schedule
lines out from a date perspective, and then then we'll
pick the throwback games.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Got it?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Chuck Arnold again is with us, president of the Seahawks,
on our President's Day show right here on ninety three
three KJRFM, And Chuck, we've been through a couple of
major overhauls to the uniforms in the past, you know,
twenty twenty five years. Mike Comgrin comes in, they make
the change. Pete Carroll comes in, they make you change. Uh,
just kind of curious. How often behind the scenes do
you guys sit down and kind of tinker with potential
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uniform changes and do you think there's a chance we
could see a significant uniform overhaul and maybe the next
few years or so.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
That's that's funny how you line those up with coaches.
I don't think what that was ever intentional that way,
but it just worked out. So now now that we
have now that we have a new coach McDonald. You're
thinking the uniform.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yes, yes, it's time.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, every time you get a new coach, you gotta
change the uniforms exactly.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
No, I don't think that's in the cards for us
to ninety times soon. We love our current uniforms. The
primaries are amazing, the throwbacks are added in there. We
still have the action green as well. So that's that's
kind of our combination now. But you never know, we
make the price you down the road.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, Chuck Arnold again with USK President President's Day Show
right here on ninety three three KJR FM and Chuck
the International Games. Obviously, you guys are drawing very well.
When you you guys go overseas, let me first of
all ask you about twenty twenty six. There was announcement
just a few weeks ago, about a week and a half. Actually,
the Rams are going to play a game in twenty
twenty six in Melbourne, Australia. And according to Google, it's
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a lot closer to get to Melbourne leaving the West
Coast than it is the East Coast. By the way,
saves you about twenty five hundred three thousand miles. Is
there a chance the Seahawks could be playing as the
road team in that game in twenty six against the
Rams in Australia.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I mean, there's always a chance, and that's the league's decision. Yeah,
you know, we we'll take every opportunity we can to
play wherever we can. But that's the league's decision, and
it would be obviously the road team. And I don't
know if they're going to put a division game on
the road, but can't say never.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If they did ask you to play in a game
like that going to Australia. Obviously the Rams got, you know,
over well over a year and a half notice for
a game like that. If the Seahawks do get selected,
Huck for a game like that, is that something that
fans and you guys would know this year? Giving you
also the same amount of leeway.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The Rams got.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Yeah, no, not necessarily as the visiting team. I think
there's a lot more preparation when you lose the home
game versus the road team.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Chuck Arnold again is with us on our President's Day show.
What about international games in twenty twenty five, anything we
can report about the possibility of you guys going overseas
this coming season.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You know that there is that opportunity. You look at
the schedule. We're not going to lose a home game
this coming season because this is the year that we
have eight versus the nine right regular season home games,
but we play Pittsburgh on the road and they're they're
going to be in Dublin, and then we also play
Jacksonville and they're going to be in London. So both
of those are opportunities. So we'll have to kind of
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wait and see. You know, the schedule comes out in May,
we'll know for sure. But we're welcome to those opportunities
and we have it. We have a great fan base internationally.
It's a great way for us to continue to grow
our brand. So yeah, we're definitely open to it. And
we've done it before. We've done Germany, we've done London,
and we've been successful.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No question. Chuck.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'm curious about just overall changes to looming this year.
You know, a couple of years ago you talked about
the new video screens that were going in. Some of
the changes that were going to be obvious to people
inside the stadium on game day, and maybe some that
won't be so obvious to people on game day, but
outside of the fiftieth anniversary celebration, anything happening logistically physically
to the stadium this year.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
You know that there's actually quite a bit going on.
I don't know how much it's going to be necessarily
visible to you know, the twelves and people coming in
for Seaoks games and other events. We've got Club World
Cup this summer and then the following summer we have
people World Cups, and there's just a list of things
that we have to do to prepare for those matches.
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And when we look at it, I'll give you an example.
Right now, we're resurfacing the north parking lot and leveling
it out, which is great and I probably shouldn't say this,
but putting the light towers there because the two light
towers that were in that lot were from the Kingdome. Wow,
they hadn't been replaced since the Kingdom days. Say they
were functional, and they weren't great. But you know, we're
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doing lots of things to the building and we and
we always will. We're always going to do things that
make a better experience for our fans and for our
guests in the stadium. But the World Cup's kind of
driving some of what those changes are going to be
for the next couple of seasons.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, and Chuck, we talked about this, I think the
last time you visited. But for people that did not
hear and are still kind of curious about this, obviously
some grass will have to be put in correct for
the World Cup matches the World Cup events. Is there
a chance that we could see the grass stick around
and you guys actually play on that surface.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Yeah, No, I could already kind of tell you that
right off the bet we're going to do it. It's
going to be great, you know, whenever we lay it down,
but it's going to have a shelf life for once
we put it down, and once the matches are over,
for how long a last after that? You know, that's
something to be always a conversation year after year of
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is Blumenfield something that we could potentially put grass in?
But right now we think are playing services safe and
it's just not practical right now to think about grass.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, well, I mean, maybe expand on that if you
can just a little bit, because I know a lot
of people love the look of the grass from a
practicality perspective. The first thing I think of is all
of it turning into a big mud ball right with
the weather we have here in Seattle. So it sounds
like you guys have actually investigated that possibility and, like
you said, come to the conclusion that it's not practical.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Why is it not practical in your mind?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You know, you know from what you look at it from.
You know, the level of event load that we have
on the field, from our weather conditions that we have
here up in the Northwest. There's a lot of things
where we want to make sure that we put the
absolute safest playing surface down for the athletes to play
on it. And we feel that our best option right
now is the turf rather than real grass, to make
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sure that we're looking out for the best interests of
our athletes.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, got you, Chuck.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I'm curious you mentioned becoming the first team to win
ten games in this new format and to not make
the postseason. I think a lot of people during the
offseason when McDonald was hired. If you would have said, hey,
you're going to go ten and seven and finished in
first place in the NFC West, they would have said great, right,
But first place came with a tie and a tie
breaker loss to the LA Rams. So give us an idea,
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as a guy like you that's been around this franchise
as long as you have multiple coach coaches, multiple cultures,
all kinds of different approaches, maybe give us a take
kind of behind the scenes of what you observe from
coach McDonald and his staff this last season.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
You know, he came in and he was strong, and
you knew you could see in his eyes that he
wanted to win, and he is a winner right off
the bat. So looking at it, I believe we got
some special coming on. You look back, like you said,
been through a lot of coaches. You can name Knock, Holmgren, Carroll.
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None of them won ten games in their very first year.
So the coach McDonald winning ten games the most in
team history as the first year head coach, that's a
lot to get excited about. And I'm excited to see
what he's going to do with a full off season. Now,
you know, he was the second to last coach hired
last year, building a staff with you know, with those
kind of restrictions, he's made some adjustments to a staff
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this year. Really excited to see what he's going to
do with Coach Kubiak and just how they're going to
build this offseason. And we looked at even what he
did through the season with the roster, him and him
and John, the way that they adjusted the roster through
the season and to finish the season win winning six
of our last eight games. It just shows you these
guys are are starting to really, you know, gel together
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and we're going to see a lot of cool things
happen this year.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, well, Chuck, I got two more before you go.
We don't know a lot about Jody Allen obviously. You know,
Paul was really private figure, as you know, every now
and then you'd see him in public parades raising the
NFC championship flag whatever. I think he maybe did a
couple of interviews on this radio station when he was alive,
but for the most part, just let the coaches, coach
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and everybody else do their job and he was very successful.
Give us an idea of what Jody's like behind the
scenes and how involved she is Jody Allen we're talking
about now in the day to day operations of this
football team.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Well, I'll say this, Jody is very involved and is
one hundred percent dedicated this team and our success. I mean,
she John, Mike, myself, we're all focused on winning and
that's the number one things. We're really focused on winning.
And she's also focused on the long term success of
the franchise. She's a hands on leader. I mean, she's
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a great listener and really she's really smart about what
drives our business. And you know, we're we're lucky to
have her as as our owner. And you know, it's
it's been great, you know, since since she's taken over
for in that position and just loving it. She's she's
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well informed. She stopped to win her decision making.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Uh, Chuck, before you go, I got one more for you.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And you mentioned this at the top about establishing re
establishing home field advantage at Loomanfield.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Three and six at home last year obviously is not
where you guys want to be. There's been a lot
of people that are wondering about the amount of opposing
fans that invade lumen Field. Some folks have talked about
the the ticket pricing set up, with the dynamic pricing,
with the you know, the bigger games obviously costing more
and maybe be more appealing on the on the secondary market.
(23:44):
Give the fans out there and give us chuck if
you can before you go a little bit of insight
into what you guys are doing to kind of maybe
keep those opposing fans out and and start to try
and win more games in your own stadium.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well, you know, I think that the first thing off
the bat is we recognize and none of us like
seeing that many opposing team fans in lim and Field. Now,
even though there was that many opposing team fans, there
was still a majority of the building is twelve and
you could see those opportunities when they got a chance
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to be vocal, you know, the difference that they can make.
So it's this year it's looking at ticket prices are
one factor in the conversation about the secondary market, but
that's not the only factor. We've got to look at
this of how we celebrate the twelves, how we reward
the twelves for being active during game days we're here.
(24:40):
I'll give you one kind of cool thing we're looking
at this year is, you know how we do a
hustle board for player statistics acting our rushing yards, We're
going to do a hustle board for fan statistics. So
how many false starts, how many three and outs and
things that the fans helped influence at the the game.
So we want our fans and we want the twelve
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that are in lum and Field to be engaged in
the game and for us to make this, like Coach
McDonald says, a nightmare of a place to play. Yeah,
and it has been. And I don't think we've lost that.
But I think what we've got to do is just
re energize that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Listen, when I said I was four in your first year,
I lied, I was only three years old. By the way,
what are you doing in nineteen seventy six, man.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Well, so I did beat you by a few years.
We'll put it that way. I wasn't. I wasn't. I
wasn't drinking fifty cent beers yet, but I was. But
I got you by a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Hey, I'm telling you, it's a hell of an idea. Man,
people would love trust me. Trust me on this one.
Fifty beers an honor of the fiftieth anniversary. All Right, man, Chuck,
thanks for doing this. Enjoy the rest of the offseason.
I know it's going to be a crazy couple of
months here with a combine the Draft Pro Day's the
whole thing. So go get him and we'll talk soon.
And appreciate you visiting on Presidents dy Man.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, I appreciate you having me and everybody get excited
about a great twenty twenty fast season.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
You bet man.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Good stuff from Chuck Arnold, the president of the Seattle Seahawks.
Kevin Martinez, the brand new president of baseball operations with
the Mariners. His first chance to join us on our
President's Day show. We'll talk to him at four o'clock
right here on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Much from the R and R Foundation specialists broadcast studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick Gone, your home for
the Huskies and the Kreken Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJR FM.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Can we assume there will be at least one throwback
game this year and one moving forward every season?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Oh yeah, we love the throwbacks and what it's done
just since relaunching those a couple of years ago. There
will be a game. There'll probably multiple games, so yeah,
definitely look forward to throwbacks again this coming season.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You know that's Chuck Arnold Jackson, the president from the Seahawks,
helping us kick off our President's Day show. Kevin Martinez,
who's the brand new president of Business Apparation for the Mariners.
He will join us coming up at four o'clock this afternoon.
But I should have asked him. My buddy Rob State
and reminded me on on on Twitter. When will they
just make them move full time to the throwback uniforms
because everybody wants to see them back. I do they
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if they put that to a vote and let the
fans decide current uniforms, or we can throw them back
full time for seventeen games a year.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I'm voting for the throwbacks every.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Game, I think, I think the overwhelming fan I would.
There is a second mind about this, that the reason
why we love the throwbacks so much and they are
so special is because we don't see them all that often.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
No, I get it, Sure, of course, would they? This
is just me, This is just me thinking out loud.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Would they become any less special if we did see
them each and every week?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Maybe, but they're still better than what they have now.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I mean, it's possible that they could not be as
big of a novelty, is what you're saying, because you
see them once or twice a year. But it's also
possible that two truths can exist. Number one, the novelty
won't be as much, and number two, they're still better
that what you have. Honestly, I thought the worst uniforms
the Seahawks ever wore were the ones that they wore
when they went to the Super Bowl in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And five Blueberries. I didn't like those.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I think either a the new ones you see now
or be the old school ones from back in the
seventies and eighties. I'm talking to silver helmets, by the way,
I think they look fricking awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I'd love to see him full time. You know.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It is interesting too, and I'm a little bit surprised
that given the fiftieth anniversary of the team, they're not
doing more members in the Ring of Honor.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, I would have thought that would have been a
great year.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Like, for example, I may be barking up a tree
and nobody's listening to me, and I'm on softy ally
with this one. You don't even probably know the name
Joe Nash. But the fact that Joe Nash is not
in the Seahawk Ring of Honor is a joke.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Defensive Lineman. I mean, yeah, I know, dude.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
The guy played fifteen years in Seattle, more than any
other Seahawks. He played more games than any other Seahawk.
Joe Nash needs to be in the Ring of Honor.
He absolutely needs to be in the Ring of Honor.
Earl Thomas, despite the fact that he's a weirdo, needs
to be in the Ring of Honor. The guy was
a five time All Pro for trying out Loud was
on the twenty tens All Decade Team, Richard Sherman, Cam Chanceler,
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Doug Baldwin, Marshawn Lynch, kJ Wright. Look, I know you
can't do all of those guys at one time, and
you can spread those out probably over you know, ten
fifteen years, and Bobby and Russell as of right now,
we're still playing. But here's the thing about the Ring
of Honor that I don't think people really understand. The
Ring of Honor is actually pretty damn elite. I'm gonna
ask you a question, Jackson. Since the year two thousand
(29:30):
and seven, how many Seahawks players have been inducted in
the Ring of Honor. Since two thousand and seven, how
many players have gone in?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I think it's only three.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The answer is correct, three three players Walter Jones, Matt Hasselback,
and Sean Alexander Cortes. Kennedy went in two thousand and six,
Dave Craig went in two thousand and four. So since
the Seahawks inaugural Super Bowl year of two thousand and five, they've.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Only had four guys. Four players.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
They've had Paul Allen, They've had Mike Homgren, you know
who both deserve it, obviously, but there's only been four
players in twenty years that have entered the Seahawk Ring
of Honor, and it's court Test Kennedy, Walter Jones, Matt
hassel Back, and Sean Alexander. So it's pretty freaking elite.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Man. If you look at the actual players and look
at the stats and look at you know, the impact
of players who are on the Ring of Honor from
going all the way back to the seventies right right,
you look at kind of okay, then then you set
the mark of what do you need to be a
Ring of Honor player? And then you look at the
players of the last twenty years. The list is so
ridiculously long. Sure, I don't I don't know if the
(30:34):
club is just apprehensive to say, Okay, we know that
we're gonna have to load it up. We don't want
to have to load it, so we're gonna change the
standards of the I don't know if they're trying to,
you know, you know, just make us think that they're
changing the standards of it.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, but if you already if you've already made.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It established that to be a Ring of Honor player
you must do X y z, then you can't change qwyz.
You just have to say the Ring of Honor is
now going to be the multiple Rings of Honor because
you are gonna have to add twenty names to it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Well, Dave Brown is in the is in the Ring
of Honor, and he deserves it. He was an eleven
year Seahawk, but he was only a two time All
Pro and made the Pro Bowl one time. Earl Thomas
was a five time All Pro and made the Pro
Bowl seven times. So, whether or not you like Earl Thomas,
whether or not you like the way things ended with
Earl Thomas, and I love Earl Thomas. By the way,
if you just told me back in the day, we're
gonna draft maybe the best free safety in the decade
(31:21):
of the twenty tens, and maybe at the end he's
gonna kind of wig out, lose his mind a little bit,
and kind of lose his marbles. Have a three someome
of his brother blah blah blah, demand to be traded,
ask the Cowboys to come get him, yack and the yak.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I would have said, where do I sign you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I mean, if that's the way it ends, but you
play the defense you played because of Earl Thomas and
his unbelievable ability, and the guy was a five time
All Pro, including a three time First team All Pro
on the NFL All Decades Team in the twenty tens,
I'd say, sign me up, so he belongs in. You know, look,
obviously there's gonna be a hierarchy with this stuff. You know,
(31:57):
Bobby Wagner might be, I don't know, be the first
guy that you want to put in from that group
because he might be the best player of that group.
kJ Wright to me, despite the fact that he never
was a Pro Bowl All Pro caliber guy consistently, the
dude played here for ten years. I mean, I'd even
think about Marcus Trufont playing here for ten years as
(32:19):
a ring of honor type guy, honestly. So look, you know,
one day you're gonna have the entire stadium going from
one end to the other full of players, and it
should be that way. Look, the franchise is fifty years old.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
One of the big differences between you growing up a
Seahawk fan and Dick's kids growing up a Seahawk fan,
and me growing up a Seahawk fan is that when
I would go to the Kingdome back in the day,
I remember literally Jackson going to games where there was
only one retired number.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
And that was number twelve for the fans. That's it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
And now you've got three six, nine, twelve, fifteen people,
including a broadcaster, an owner, and two head coaches. Right,
so everything's changing. The franchise isn't young anymore. They're not new.
This isn't nineteen seventy seven. Okay, they've been around for
fifty years and they need to honor that kind of
(33:11):
history and they will. But I again, look, I understand
where they're coming from with you. We want the focus
to be on the fiftieth anniversary stuff, and I totally
get that, but I just thought this was a great
year to put a guy in like a Joe Nash
who's played more games and more years than any other
Seahawk player in history, that dude belongs it.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That seems you know, you spell out that argument for
that being the guy for the fiftieth year. Yes, that
does make a lot of sense, because I think it's
at some point, whether it's Joe or whether it is
they're just waiting for Bobby to kick off the whole thing.
Maybe it is, you know, maybe once Bobby retire, as
they say, okay, every single year, we're going to induct
another member from the thirteen team and then just keep
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going because for forty years, I mean really though, it
is Russell, it's Marshawn, it's Doug Baldwin. Yes, you just
keep going down the list. It's Wagner, it's right Sherman, Chance, Thomas.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Thomas, Pete Carroll, Pete Carroll.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
The list goes on and on, and they're gonna need
to take I think, just ten years and go one
every single year.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Well, yeah, and this could take us. This could take
me until I'm seventy.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Two years old, by the way, right, and you know
who knows, you know, who's gonna be around, who's not
gonna be around. But I think you spend you know,
a decade with one team, I think you're in the
conversation for the Ring of Honor. I mean, you know, look,
I mean Marshawn obviously did not play here for a decade,
but the impact he had, the moments he gave us,
the imprint he left on the football team, the way
they played because of him, I think he's a Ring
(34:33):
of Honor guy, you know. I mean, Max Hunger played
here for only six seasons, but he was a two
time Pro Bowler and a first team All Pro in
twenty twelve, And if he hadn't gotten traded for Jimmy Graham,
he would have spent you know, nine ten seasons here
and been a multiple time Pro Bowler in Seattle and
All Pro at least in that one year. So he's
the guy that you should consider. But I don't want
to water it down. Look, I get it, there's a
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lot of guys I would put in. You can't put
everybody in. But I think those those guys that won
the Super Bowl, they get an automatic bump because they
were on that team.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
So again, Chuck Arnold, great stuff from him.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
No Ring of Honor ceremonies playing for twenty twenty five
and he will never ever ever. According to him, it
sounds like see the Seahawks play on grass, which is
a bummer. I would have liked to have seen that
happen maybe one time. All Right, we're gonna break Kevin Martinez,
the brand new director, you know, keep saying director, the
brand new president of business operations for the Mariners. He's
(35:28):
not the baseball side. He's the business side all those
people hope, and I'm gonna bust his balls about the
lack of moves over the offseason. That's the other guy,
all right, And hopefully the other guy will join us
on the show at some point. But Kevin Martinez gonna
join us continue our President's Day Show. Next from the
Emerald Queen Casino, don't forget anamar a cow say you
dub four thirty Todd Light Wiki kracking at five o'clock
(35:50):
right here on ninety three three KJRFL
Where college basketball on one side, I got MLB Network
on the other side. I got the horse racing channel
on the other side, and right next to that is
freaking Rogue one.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I gotta take a picture of this man. We gotta
come down here one of these days when it's like
after ten o'clock and all the games are over already
and throw up like the Star Wars trilogy on the
big screen here at the Emeral Queen Casino. I might
even stay overnight for that. For crying out loud. Well,
we're here at the Emeral Queenen Casino hanging out until
six pm.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Chuck and Bucker back at six o'clock with Dan Wilson,
Rick Riz Ryan Ryan blescuse me, they're daily spring training
a recap show. They're down there all week long in
Peri in the purious use me courtesy in part of
our friends at the Emerald Queen Casino. We got a
big one. Our annual President's Day Show will begin next segment.
Chuck Arnold gonna join us from the Seahawks. He'll be
(00:54):
first up. Kevin Martinez, the brand new president of Business Operations,
will join us at four o'clock today and for everybody
out there hoping we're gonna bust his balls about the
DH spot, the first base position, the lack of acquisitions
over the offseason. That's not really under his umbrella. By
the way, he is the director of business, the president
of business operations, not the president of baseball operation. So
(01:18):
I don't know if you'll be hearing Jerry to Poto
much on my show.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, and I think people understand this is very
much a business orientally. This is the presidential business oriented day.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I mean, yes it is. It is in some ways
and in some ways it isn't.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I mean the way that these things are now done
that most teams have a president of baseball operations, football operations,
basketball operations, hockey operations, soccer operations, whatever, and then you
got the business side. So for the most part, like
Hugh Weber, for example, is he actually the president of
business operations for the Sounders?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Is his?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That is his exact title? Okay? Perfect? So he will
join us at five point thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Aaron Hartman, who's just the flat out president of the Rainiers,
will join us at five forty five. Todd LAIWICKI, who
I don't even think technically is the president. I think
he's now the CEO right of the Kraken, But for
our purposes today, we're gonna act like he's the president,
coming up at five o'clock and Todd is gonna be
able to talk about a lot of stuff, including the
timeline for the NBA what's going on there. You know,
(02:14):
it kind of feels like a lot of us are
waiting on the Celtics thing to get taken care of
before they can move on and get the Sonics and
me either Vegas or Mexico City or Vancouver or whatever
back in the mix. So, you know, I thought by now,
and I've been saying for the last couple of years,
that by the end of twenty twenty four, which came
and went, you know, a month and a half ago,
that we were.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Going to have some news on expansion. And it hasn't
happened yet.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I think because of the Boston Celtics sale still not happening,
and that thing kind of holding up the entire picture.
So as soon as you hear news on the Boston thing,
we should then be closer to hearing stuff on the
return of the Sonics. But I also thought it was
interesting that Adam Silver did his All Star weekend press
conference in San Francisco over the weekend, Jackson and nobody
(02:57):
asked him at all about expansion, Like wasn't brought up,
and it typically is. Every time the commissioner talks, expansion
is brought up. So we got Todds joining us at five.
From a hockey perspective, I think the question is, hey, look,
are we looking at a complete rebuild now with this
hockey team if they don't make the playoffs this year?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Or is it more of a retooling? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So we'll talk to him about that, The Memorial Stadium project,
the return of the NBA. Chuck Arnold's gonna be with
us next segment from the Seahawks, and obviously the big
questions for Chuck are will the Seahawks be playing overseas
this year? You saw the Rams are playing in Australia.
Not this season, but in twenty twenty six. Is there
a chance the Seahawks could be joining them as a
divisional foe? When will the throwback games be any changes
(03:42):
to loom and field, the uniforms, all that stuff. And
then for Kevin Martinez, look, Kevin Martinez has had his
name mentioned on this radio station many many, many times
in the thirty one years almost that I've been here
now with the station. But it's always been about a
marketing perspective, right because that was his gig. He ran
the marketing department and ran it very well at the Mariners.
(04:03):
Now he's in charge of everything business related, like, for example,
are we going to see another Jersey get retired this year?
Are we going to see another you know, maybe change
to t Mobile Park, the batter's eye, moving the fences
in things like that. What about changes to the menu
the concessions. Everybody always wants to know for some reason
(04:26):
about the freaking food at the ballpark. Will there be
some new bugs that we can buy now, some new
insects that we can buy at the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So we'll talk to Kevin about that.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I want to find out about, you know, about each
hero if he plans on speaking English at his Hall
of Fame induction ceremony, which I think would be awesome,
by the way, if you can pull off something like that.
So he'll join us Hugh Weber with a ton of
World Cup stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
When are we going to start to see changes to
lumen Field to accommodate club World Cup. The World Cup
coming up in about what a year and a half
or so from now, Jackson Club World Cup happening this summer,
would Chuck, will the Seahawks be playing on natural grass
at all this year and next year because of the
World Cup coming into town. Those are the kinds of
things that we'll be going over, starting with Chuck Arnold
(05:07):
in about twelve minutes from now.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And I think all of this all revolves exactly the
way we I think we spend so much time talking
about the on the field side and one of the
mannors going to fix their lineup and one of those
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Fair, It is very fair.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But I think today taking President's Day, is a great
day to take a look at the other side of
the business operations for all of our local teams. And
today is an we're getting it right from the source.
All these important questions that do deserve time to get
talked about, like the grass situation, like the stadium situation.
I mean, what kind of massive renovation needs to happen
to lumin for events like the World Cup to come.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And I would love to see the Seahawks play on grass.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I think, yeah, awesome, you know, obviously you'd have to
have an incredible dradage system there, there's no doubt. But
aren't they always saying it never rains at lumin Field
things like that? So if it never rains at lumin
then what the hell we worried about? For crying out loud,
But I think it'd be fantastic. I mean, I'm kind
of an old school guy in that regard. I frankly
think all football games should be played in the mud
and the dirt on Saturday or Sunday or Friday night.
(06:05):
And I don't think that's ever gonna happen here because
of exactly what we talked about, the drainage problems. But
how freaking cool would it be, even if just for
one or two games, maybe even one week, If there's
an overlap with the Club World Cup and the World
Cup next year in twenty twenty six, where the Hawks
could end up playing on actual grass at Luminfield for
(06:26):
the very first time ever, would be freaking amazing. So
I know people of your ILK are concerned about the
kits at the Sounders. Will there be a third kit
introduced at some point in time because apparently two's not enough, man, right,
you gotta have three. You want to buy the same
thing fifteen different freaking ways.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's people like you that keep those guys in business, dude.
So we'll talk to Hugh Weber about all of that.
But we got a lot to get to. We're gonna
keep a couple of open segments today, I think around
three forty five and four forty five to kind of
breathe a little bit. Of the schedule today is gonna
be Chuck Arnold from the Seahawks will join us next segment,
Kevin Martinez from the Mariners at four anamar a cause
(07:04):
is the outgoing president that ub she's actually on the job,
I think.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Until June or July. I think it's June.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
She'll join us at four thirty and talk about Robert Jones,
who's the new UDA president from Illinois. What about going
to the Big ten to move to the Big ten
after a year? What is she gonna do when she
leaves to make sure the Huskies are ready? You know,
there's been a lot of questions about, hey, with all
these bills piling up for the athletic department, because that
simply mean the school's got to take more kids and
(07:31):
just make more money, you know, bring on a higher
enrollment number. So we'll talk to onamar A Cawsey about
that at four thirty, Todd Liwiki on what's going on
with the KRACK and obviously the future of the NBA,
the Memorial Stadium project and more at five, Hugh Weber
from the Sounders at five thirty, and we'll wrap it
up with Aaron Hartman from The Rainiers coming.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Up at five forty sivee tonight, soazy, I just have
one question for you with it, With so much we
have to get to and so much we have to
do today, how the hell are you gonna focus?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
With rogue one on in the background. I'm not focusing.
What was that I didn't hear? Yeah about right me?
This is gonna be you.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You faced a lot of challenges in your career. This
is gonna be quite the challenge for you today.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So freaking cool man. All right, we'll get a break.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Chuck Arnold, the president of your Seattle Seahawks, gonna join
us our annual President's Day show is is underway.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We'll start with Chuck Arnold.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Coming up next segment, Kevin Martinez at for his first
visit with us officially as the president of business ops.
He took over that role that was vacated by Katie
Griggs when she took off to go worked for the
Orioles last year. He'll join us you to President Onamara cause,
Hugh Weber from the Sounders, Aaron Hartman from the Rainiers,
and a lot more, Todd Lwicki as well as we
(08:41):
continue from the Emerald Queen Casino on this President's Day Monday,
Chuck Arnold. We'll kick it off next on ninety three
to three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick on your Home for
the Huskies and the Creaking Sports Radio ninety three kjr FL.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
All right, boys and girls, we are back here on
a President's Day Monday, and as is tradition on this
radio show, our President's Day Show continues right here on ninety.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And what President's Day Show would be complete without a
visit from the presidents of the Seattle Seahawks. Our friend
Chuck Arnold joining us right now on President's Day. Chuck,
First of all, great to have you back on the show.
Appreciate you doing this, and you know the droll my friend,
let's start off with a State of the Union address
on the state of the Seahawks on this President's Day,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well, first off, Happy President's Day to you and everybody
else out there. We're humming right now. We've got just
great energy in the building, coming off winning our last
six or winning six of our last eight games. Now
I say that we're disappointed we didn't make the playoffs.
We were the first team to win ten games in
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this new playoff format not to make the play offs.
So we're looking forward. We're excited to celebrate our fiftieth
season this year, which is going to be great. We're
focused on making Lumen Field the best home field advantage
in the NFL. We've got one hundred and eighty consecutive sellouts.
We're going to push that forward and we love it
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when coach McDonald just said he wants to make lumen
Field a nightmare to play in, and we're going to
work together on that. We're going to create really cool
ideas and just you're going to see some new things
happening this year that just engages the crowd and gets
the crowd just fired up going out on the Lumitfield side,
we're busier than heck, We've got a full summer of concerts,
club World Cup coming. There's just lots of exciting things
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from a lumen Field perspective as well.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
There's a lot to respond to right there.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And first of all, why don't we just talk about
this being the fiftieth anniversary. I don't know where you
were in the mid seventies, but I was four years
old when this franchise launched a way back in the day.
So the fact that we've both been around for I
think you have every single Seahawks seasons pretty amazing. It
makes me feel damn old. I can tell you that
right now, Chuck. But let's just talk about kind of
what the fans should expect to see in relation to
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celebrating the fiftieth season all time of Seahawk football.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, I think I beat you by a couple of years,
but pretty close. Yeah, because when we look at it
fifty seasons, you know, we're really excited about and recognize
a lot of the great moments in our history. We're
going to do that in a variety of ways all
year long, not just a game here and there. We're
going to identify top fifty players the fans vote here
we had last season, so you're going to see us
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announce that there's some great names on that and what
a difficult process that was to narrow down to fifty.
But we're going to celebrate those fifty. There's just there's
just a ton that's coming up that the fans are
going to have a chance to look forward to. But
each game is going to have a fiftieth anniversary element
to it, and then not even game days, but just
throughout the whole entire season, you're going to see us
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were a lot of quite a bit of cool things.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
People all way want to know if there are any
number retirement or Ring of honor ceremonies plan for twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
What can you tell us in that regard?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
No Ring of honor ceremonies planned right now. I think
this year our focus is that fiftieth season. You know,
we're really excited to celebrate those you know, top fifty players,
some great moments and just you know, fifty seasons. So
we're going to we're going to kind of put that
ring of honor conversation on hold for the twenty twenty
five season.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Gotcha, well, not that you guys care what I think,
but I'm going to offer up an idea anyway. I
think an honor of the fiftieth season would be really
great if you charged fifty cents for beer the entire season.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
You never know what we're going to come up with,
but I'll take that into consideration.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, please do Chuck Arnold with US Seahawk President on
this President's Day Show Monday.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And the other big one that people want to know about.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
There's a couple of them, obviously, but the throwback games
obviously have been very popular. You know, just started doing
that a couple of years ago after a long, long,
long wait, and we assume there will be at least
one throwback game this year and one moving forward every season.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Oh yeah, we love the throwbacks and what it's it's
done just since relaunching those a couple of years ago.
There will be a game. There are probably multiple games,
so yeah, definitely look forward to throwbacks again this coming season.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I know the dates aren't out yet for the schedule,
but do we have any idea of the opponents yet,
Chuck for those throwback games?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
No, we're gonna wait till kind of the dates line
out and then we'll then we'll say, Okay, this is
going to be a great one. I think last year
we did the home opener, it made sense. I think
we were against the Broncos. So yeah, brought us back
to that AFC West and let's see how the schedule
lines out from a date perspective, and then then we'll
pick the throwback games.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Got it?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Chuck Arnold again is with us, president of the Seahawks,
on our President's Day show right here on ninety three
three KJRFM, And Chuck, we've been through a couple of
major overhauls to the uniforms in the past, you know,
twenty twenty five years. Mike Comgrin comes in, they make
the change. Pete Carroll comes in, they make you change. Uh,
just kind of curious. How often behind the scenes do
you guys sit down and kind of tinker with potential
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uniform changes and do you think there's a chance we
could see a significant uniform overhaul and maybe the next
few years or so.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
That's that's funny how you line those up with coaches.
I don't think what that was ever intentional that way,
but it just worked out. So now now that we
have now that we have a new coach McDonald. You're
thinking the uniform.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yes, yes, it's time.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, every time you get a new coach, you gotta
change the uniforms exactly.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
No, I don't think that's in the cards for us
to ninety times soon. We love our current uniforms. The
primaries are amazing, the throwbacks are added in there. We
still have the action green as well. So that's that's
kind of our combination now. But you never know, we
make the price you down the road.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, Chuck Arnold again with USK President President's Day Show
right here on ninety three three KJR FM and Chuck
the International Games. Obviously, you guys are drawing very well.
When you you guys go overseas, let me first of
all ask you about twenty twenty six. There was announcement
just a few weeks ago, about a week and a half. Actually,
the Rams are going to play a game in twenty
twenty six in Melbourne, Australia. And according to Google, it's
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a lot closer to get to Melbourne leaving the West
Coast than it is the East Coast. By the way,
saves you about twenty five hundred three thousand miles. Is
there a chance the Seahawks could be playing as the
road team in that game in twenty six against the
Rams in Australia.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I mean, there's always a chance, and that's the league's decision. Yeah,
you know, we we'll take every opportunity we can to
play wherever we can. But that's the league's decision, and
it would be obviously the road team. And I don't
know if they're going to put a division game on
the road, but can't say never.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If they did ask you to play in a game
like that going to Australia. Obviously the Rams got, you know,
over well over a year and a half notice for
a game like that. If the Seahawks do get selected,
Huck for a game like that, is that something that
fans and you guys would know this year? Giving you
also the same amount of leeway.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The Rams got.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Yeah, no, not necessarily as the visiting team. I think
there's a lot more preparation when you lose the home
game versus the road team.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Chuck Arnold again is with us on our President's Day show.
What about international games in twenty twenty five, anything we
can report about the possibility of you guys going overseas
this coming season.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You know that there is that opportunity. You look at
the schedule. We're not going to lose a home game
this coming season because this is the year that we
have eight versus the nine right regular season home games,
but we play Pittsburgh on the road and they're they're
going to be in Dublin, and then we also play
Jacksonville and they're going to be in London. So both
of those are opportunities. So we'll have to kind of
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wait and see. You know, the schedule comes out in May,
we'll know for sure. But we're welcome to those opportunities
and we have it. We have a great fan base internationally.
It's a great way for us to continue to grow
our brand. So yeah, we're definitely open to it. And
we've done it before. We've done Germany, we've done London,
and we've been successful.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No question. Chuck.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'm curious about just overall changes to looming this year.
You know, a couple of years ago you talked about
the new video screens that were going in. Some of
the changes that were going to be obvious to people
inside the stadium on game day, and maybe some that
won't be so obvious to people on game day, but
outside of the fiftieth anniversary celebration, anything happening logistically physically
to the stadium this year.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
You know that there's actually quite a bit going on.
I don't know how much it's going to be necessarily
visible to you know, the twelves and people coming in
for Seaoks games and other events. We've got Club World
Cup this summer and then the following summer we have
people World Cups, and there's just a list of things
that we have to do to prepare for those matches.
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And when we look at it, I'll give you an example.
Right now, we're resurfacing the north parking lot and leveling
it out, which is great and I probably shouldn't say this,
but putting the light towers there because the two light
towers that were in that lot were from the Kingdome. Wow,
they hadn't been replaced since the Kingdom days. Say they
were functional, and they weren't great. But you know, we're
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doing lots of things to the building and we and
we always will. We're always going to do things that
make a better experience for our fans and for our
guests in the stadium. But the World Cup's kind of
driving some of what those changes are going to be
for the next couple of seasons.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, and Chuck, we talked about this, I think the
last time you visited. But for people that did not
hear and are still kind of curious about this, obviously
some grass will have to be put in correct for
the World Cup matches the World Cup events. Is there
a chance that we could see the grass stick around
and you guys actually play on that surface.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Yeah, No, I could already kind of tell you that
right off the bet we're going to do it. It's
going to be great, you know, whenever we lay it down,
but it's going to have a shelf life for once
we put it down, and once the matches are over,
for how long a last after that? You know, that's
something to be always a conversation year after year of
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is Blumenfield something that we could potentially put grass in?
But right now we think are playing services safe and
it's just not practical right now to think about grass.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, well, I mean, maybe expand on that if you
can just a little bit, because I know a lot
of people love the look of the grass from a
practicality perspective. The first thing I think of is all
of it turning into a big mud ball right with
the weather we have here in Seattle. So it sounds
like you guys have actually investigated that possibility and, like
you said, come to the conclusion that it's not practical.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Why is it not practical in your mind?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You know, you know from what you look at it from.
You know, the level of event load that we have
on the field, from our weather conditions that we have
here up in the Northwest. There's a lot of things
where we want to make sure that we put the
absolute safest playing surface down for the athletes to play
on it. And we feel that our best option right
now is the turf rather than real grass, to make
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sure that we're looking out for the best interests of
our athletes.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, got you, Chuck.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I'm curious you mentioned becoming the first team to win
ten games in this new format and to not make
the postseason. I think a lot of people during the
offseason when McDonald was hired. If you would have said, hey,
you're going to go ten and seven and finished in
first place in the NFC West, they would have said great, right,
But first place came with a tie and a tie
breaker loss to the LA Rams. So give us an idea,
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as a guy like you that's been around this franchise
as long as you have multiple coach coaches, multiple cultures,
all kinds of different approaches, maybe give us a take
kind of behind the scenes of what you observe from
coach McDonald and his staff this last season.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
You know, he came in and he was strong, and
you knew you could see in his eyes that he
wanted to win, and he is a winner right off
the bat. So looking at it, I believe we got
some special coming on. You look back, like you said,
been through a lot of coaches. You can name Knock, Holmgren, Carroll.
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None of them won ten games in their very first year.
So the coach McDonald winning ten games the most in
team history as the first year head coach, that's a
lot to get excited about. And I'm excited to see
what he's going to do with a full off season. Now,
you know, he was the second to last coach hired
last year, building a staff with you know, with those
kind of restrictions, he's made some adjustments to a staff
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this year. Really excited to see what he's going to
do with Coach Kubiak and just how they're going to
build this offseason. And we looked at even what he
did through the season with the roster, him and him
and John, the way that they adjusted the roster through
the season and to finish the season win winning six
of our last eight games. It just shows you these
guys are are starting to really, you know, gel together
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and we're going to see a lot of cool things
happen this year.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, well, Chuck, I got two more before you go.
We don't know a lot about Jody Allen obviously. You know,
Paul was really private figure, as you know, every now
and then you'd see him in public parades raising the
NFC championship flag whatever. I think he maybe did a
couple of interviews on this radio station when he was alive,
but for the most part, just let the coaches, coach
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and everybody else do their job and he was very successful.
Give us an idea of what Jody's like behind the
scenes and how involved she is Jody Allen we're talking
about now in the day to day operations of this
football team.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Well, I'll say this, Jody is very involved and is
one hundred percent dedicated this team and our success. I mean,
she John, Mike, myself, we're all focused on winning and
that's the number one things. We're really focused on winning.
And she's also focused on the long term success of
the franchise. She's a hands on leader. I mean, she's
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a great listener and really she's really smart about what
drives our business. And you know, we're we're lucky to
have her as as our owner. And you know, it's
it's been great, you know, since since she's taken over
for in that position and just loving it. She's she's
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well informed. She stopped to win her decision making.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Uh, Chuck, before you go, I got one more for you.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And you mentioned this at the top about establishing re
establishing home field advantage at Loomanfield.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Three and six at home last year obviously is not
where you guys want to be. There's been a lot
of people that are wondering about the amount of opposing
fans that invade lumen Field. Some folks have talked about
the the ticket pricing set up, with the dynamic pricing,
with the you know, the bigger games obviously costing more
and maybe be more appealing on the on the secondary market.
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Give the fans out there and give us chuck if
you can before you go a little bit of insight
into what you guys are doing to kind of maybe
keep those opposing fans out and and start to try
and win more games in your own stadium.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well, you know, I think that the first thing off
the bat is we recognize and none of us like
seeing that many opposing team fans in lim and Field. Now,
even though there was that many opposing team fans, there
was still a majority of the building is twelve and
you could see those opportunities when they got a chance
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to be vocal, you know, the difference that they can make.
So it's this year it's looking at ticket prices are
one factor in the conversation about the secondary market, but
that's not the only factor. We've got to look at
this of how we celebrate the twelves, how we reward
the twelves for being active during game days we're here.
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I'll give you one kind of cool thing we're looking
at this year is, you know how we do a
hustle board for player statistics acting our rushing yards, We're
going to do a hustle board for fan statistics. So
how many false starts, how many three and outs and
things that the fans helped influence at the the game.
So we want our fans and we want the twelve
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that are in lum and Field to be engaged in
the game and for us to make this, like Coach
McDonald says, a nightmare of a place to play. Yeah,
and it has been. And I don't think we've lost that.
But I think what we've got to do is just
re energize that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Listen, when I said I was four in your first year,
I lied, I was only three years old. By the way,
what are you doing in nineteen seventy six, man.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Well, so I did beat you by a few years.
We'll put it that way. I wasn't. I wasn't. I
wasn't drinking fifty cent beers yet, but I was. But
I got you by a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Hey, I'm telling you, it's a hell of an idea. Man,
people would love trust me. Trust me on this one.
Fifty beers an honor of the fiftieth anniversary. All Right, man, Chuck,
thanks for doing this. Enjoy the rest of the offseason.
I know it's going to be a crazy couple of
months here with a combine the Draft Pro Day's the
whole thing. So go get him and we'll talk soon.
And appreciate you visiting on Presidents dy Man.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, I appreciate you having me and everybody get excited
about a great twenty twenty fast season.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
You bet man.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Good stuff from Chuck Arnold, the president of the Seattle Seahawks.
Kevin Martinez, the brand new president of baseball operations with
the Mariners. His first chance to join us on our
President's Day show. We'll talk to him at four o'clock
right here on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Much from the R and R Foundation specialists broadcast studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick Gone, your home for
the Huskies and the Kreken Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJR FM.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Can we assume there will be at least one throwback
game this year and one moving forward every season?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Oh yeah, we love the throwbacks and what it's done
just since relaunching those a couple of years ago. There
will be a game. There'll probably multiple games, so yeah,
definitely look forward to throwbacks again this coming season.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You know that's Chuck Arnold Jackson, the president from the Seahawks,
helping us kick off our President's Day show. Kevin Martinez,
who's the brand new president of Business Apparation for the Mariners.
He will join us coming up at four o'clock this afternoon.
But I should have asked him. My buddy Rob State
and reminded me on on on Twitter. When will they
just make them move full time to the throwback uniforms
because everybody wants to see them back. I do they
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if they put that to a vote and let the
fans decide current uniforms, or we can throw them back
full time for seventeen games a year.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I'm voting for the throwbacks every.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Game, I think, I think the overwhelming fan I would.
There is a second mind about this, that the reason
why we love the throwbacks so much and they are
so special is because we don't see them all that often.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
No, I get it, Sure, of course, would they? This
is just me, This is just me thinking out loud.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Would they become any less special if we did see
them each and every week?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Maybe, but they're still better than what they have now.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I mean, it's possible that they could not be as
big of a novelty, is what you're saying, because you
see them once or twice a year. But it's also
possible that two truths can exist. Number one, the novelty
won't be as much, and number two, they're still better
that what you have. Honestly, I thought the worst uniforms
the Seahawks ever wore were the ones that they wore
when they went to the Super Bowl in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And five Blueberries. I didn't like those.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I think either a the new ones you see now
or be the old school ones from back in the
seventies and eighties. I'm talking to silver helmets, by the way,
I think they look fricking awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I'd love to see him full time. You know.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It is interesting too, and I'm a little bit surprised
that given the fiftieth anniversary of the team, they're not
doing more members in the Ring of Honor.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, I would have thought that would have been a
great year.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Like, for example, I may be barking up a tree
and nobody's listening to me, and I'm on softy ally
with this one. You don't even probably know the name
Joe Nash. But the fact that Joe Nash is not
in the Seahawk Ring of Honor is a joke.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Defensive Lineman. I mean, yeah, I know, dude.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
The guy played fifteen years in Seattle, more than any
other Seahawks. He played more games than any other Seahawk.
Joe Nash needs to be in the Ring of Honor.
He absolutely needs to be in the Ring of Honor.
Earl Thomas, despite the fact that he's a weirdo, needs
to be in the Ring of Honor. The guy was
a five time All Pro for trying out Loud was
on the twenty tens All Decade Team, Richard Sherman, Cam Chanceler,
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Doug Baldwin, Marshawn Lynch, kJ Wright. Look, I know you
can't do all of those guys at one time, and
you can spread those out probably over you know, ten
fifteen years, and Bobby and Russell as of right now,
we're still playing. But here's the thing about the Ring
of Honor that I don't think people really understand. The
Ring of Honor is actually pretty damn elite. I'm gonna
ask you a question, Jackson. Since the year two thousand
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and seven, how many Seahawks players have been inducted in
the Ring of Honor. Since two thousand and seven, how
many players have gone in?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I think it's only three.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The answer is correct, three three players Walter Jones, Matt Hasselback,
and Sean Alexander Cortes. Kennedy went in two thousand and six,
Dave Craig went in two thousand and four. So since
the Seahawks inaugural Super Bowl year of two thousand and five, they've.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Only had four guys. Four players.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
They've had Paul Allen, They've had Mike Homgren, you know
who both deserve it, obviously, but there's only been four
players in twenty years that have entered the Seahawk Ring
of Honor, and it's court Test Kennedy, Walter Jones, Matt
hassel Back, and Sean Alexander. So it's pretty freaking elite.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Man. If you look at the actual players and look
at the stats and look at you know, the impact
of players who are on the Ring of Honor from
going all the way back to the seventies right right,
you look at kind of okay, then then you set
the mark of what do you need to be a
Ring of Honor player? And then you look at the
players of the last twenty years. The list is so
ridiculously long. Sure, I don't I don't know if the
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club is just apprehensive to say, Okay, we know that
we're gonna have to load it up. We don't want
to have to load it, so we're gonna change the
standards of the I don't know if they're trying to,
you know, you know, just make us think that they're
changing the standards of it.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, but if you already if you've already made.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It established that to be a Ring of Honor player
you must do X y z, then you can't change qwyz.
You just have to say the Ring of Honor is
now going to be the multiple Rings of Honor because
you are gonna have to add twenty names to it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Well, Dave Brown is in the is in the Ring
of Honor, and he deserves it. He was an eleven
year Seahawk, but he was only a two time All
Pro and made the Pro Bowl one time. Earl Thomas
was a five time All Pro and made the Pro
Bowl seven times. So, whether or not you like Earl Thomas,
whether or not you like the way things ended with
Earl Thomas, and I love Earl Thomas. By the way,
if you just told me back in the day, we're
gonna draft maybe the best free safety in the decade
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of the twenty tens, and maybe at the end he's
gonna kind of wig out, lose his mind a little bit,
and kind of lose his marbles. Have a three someome
of his brother blah blah blah, demand to be traded,
ask the Cowboys to come get him, yack and the yak.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I would have said, where do I sign you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I mean, if that's the way it ends, but you
play the defense you played because of Earl Thomas and
his unbelievable ability, and the guy was a five time
All Pro, including a three time First team All Pro
on the NFL All Decades Team in the twenty tens,
I'd say, sign me up, so he belongs in. You know, look,
obviously there's gonna be a hierarchy with this stuff. You know,
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Bobby Wagner might be, I don't know, be the first
guy that you want to put in from that group
because he might be the best player of that group.
kJ Wright to me, despite the fact that he never
was a Pro Bowl All Pro caliber guy consistently, the
dude played here for ten years. I mean, I'd even
think about Marcus Trufont playing here for ten years as
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a ring of honor type guy, honestly. So look, you know,
one day you're gonna have the entire stadium going from
one end to the other full of players, and it
should be that way. Look, the franchise is fifty years old.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
One of the big differences between you growing up a
Seahawk fan and Dick's kids growing up a Seahawk fan,
and me growing up a Seahawk fan is that when
I would go to the Kingdome back in the day,
I remember literally Jackson going to games where there was
only one retired number.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
And that was number twelve for the fans. That's it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
And now you've got three six, nine, twelve, fifteen people,
including a broadcaster, an owner, and two head coaches. Right,
so everything's changing. The franchise isn't young anymore. They're not new.
This isn't nineteen seventy seven. Okay, they've been around for
fifty years and they need to honor that kind of
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history and they will. But I again, look, I understand
where they're coming from with you. We want the focus
to be on the fiftieth anniversary stuff, and I totally
get that, but I just thought this was a great
year to put a guy in like a Joe Nash
who's played more games and more years than any other
Seahawk player in history, that dude belongs it.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That seems you know, you spell out that argument for
that being the guy for the fiftieth year. Yes, that
does make a lot of sense, because I think it's
at some point, whether it's Joe or whether it is
they're just waiting for Bobby to kick off the whole thing.
Maybe it is, you know, maybe once Bobby retire, as
they say, okay, every single year, we're going to induct
another member from the thirteen team and then just keep
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going because for forty years, I mean really though, it
is Russell, it's Marshawn, it's Doug Baldwin. Yes, you just
keep going down the list. It's Wagner, it's right Sherman, Chance, Thomas.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Thomas, Pete Carroll, Pete Carroll.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
The list goes on and on, and they're gonna need
to take I think, just ten years and go one
every single year.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Well, yeah, and this could take us. This could take
me until I'm seventy.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Two years old, by the way, right, and you know
who knows, you know, who's gonna be around, who's not
gonna be around. But I think you spend you know,
a decade with one team, I think you're in the
conversation for the Ring of Honor. I mean, you know, look,
I mean Marshawn obviously did not play here for a decade,
but the impact he had, the moments he gave us,
the imprint he left on the football team, the way
they played because of him, I think he's a Ring
(34:33):
of Honor guy, you know. I mean, Max Hunger played
here for only six seasons, but he was a two
time Pro Bowler and a first team All Pro in
twenty twelve, And if he hadn't gotten traded for Jimmy Graham,
he would have spent you know, nine ten seasons here
and been a multiple time Pro Bowler in Seattle and
All Pro at least in that one year. So he's
the guy that you should consider. But I don't want
to water it down. Look, I get it, there's a
(34:55):
lot of guys I would put in. You can't put
everybody in. But I think those those guys that won
the Super Bowl, they get an automatic bump because they
were on that team.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
So again, Chuck Arnold, great stuff from him.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
No Ring of Honor ceremonies playing for twenty twenty five
and he will never ever ever. According to him, it
sounds like see the Seahawks play on grass, which is
a bummer. I would have liked to have seen that
happen maybe one time. All Right, we're gonna break Kevin Martinez,
the brand new director, you know, keep saying director, the
brand new president of business operations for the Mariners. He's
(35:28):
not the baseball side. He's the business side all those
people hope, and I'm gonna bust his balls about the
lack of moves over the offseason. That's the other guy,
all right, And hopefully the other guy will join us
on the show at some point. But Kevin Martinez gonna
join us continue our President's Day Show. Next from the
Emerald Queen Casino, don't forget anamar a cow say you
dub four thirty Todd Light Wiki kracking at five o'clock
(35:50):
right here on ninety three three KJRFL
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