The Road to the Superbowl is Paved with Noise

Question: How do you win againsts a 12-man football team? Answer: You dont! Tonight Seattle is going wild celabrating the Seahawks 34-14 victory against the Carolina Panthers. The Seattle Seahawks dominated from the get-go, and looked like a team ready to win the Super Bowl. The Seattle Seahawks are totally undefeated at home this season for one very good reason: the twelfth man - the name given to all the Seahawks fans who are in the stadium actively supporting their team with noise, noise, and more noise. The 11 Seahawks players on the field played a great game (especially by covering the Panther's star player Steve Smith so tightly that he couldn't do anything), but the match was really won by the 12th Man overall. The atmosphere in the stadium was completely electrfying (Josh Brown described it afterwards as "enough electricity to jump start a car!") and the effect of the local support on the opposition team was noticable and decisive - the Panthers just couldn't get their game ...

15:00:00 January 22, 2006, Sunday (PST) Source: TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog

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