Seattle Seahawks Milestones

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How the Seattle Seahawks history timeline works

The Seahawks deck is a set of franchise moments, each with a brief description beneath it, ordered by the year they happened. The line already holds one card, its year shown. Place each new card into the gap you think fits. A correct call reveals the year; a wrong call sends the card to its true spot and costs one of your three lives.

Seattle's history includes a move between conferences, an ownership scare, a stadium change and one long era of sustained success under a single coach. Many of the cards have short, nickname-style headlines, so the description underneath does the heavy lifting. The playoff cards from the successful era are close together and easy to confuse, and the early expansion seasons can blur as well.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 28 of the 29 cards you might be dealt, with 1 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Franchise awarded to Seattle The NFL granted the city an expansion team, to begin play alongside a new Tampa Bay club two years later
Named the Seahawks A fan contest drawing over twenty thousand entries produced the winning name
Played their first season Jim Zorn and rookie Steve Largent debuted in the Kingdome, and the expansion club managed two wins
Moved to the AFC West After a single year in the NFC, the league shifted the young franchise to the other conference
First winning season Jack Patera was named Coach of the Year as the third-year club finished 9-7
Hired Chuck Knox 'Ground Chuck' arrived and immediately coached the franchise to its first playoff berth
Played in the AFC Championship Game A Cinderella run behind rookie Curt Warner ended against the eventual champion Raiders in Los Angeles
Drafted Brian Bosworth Spent a supplemental pick and a huge contract on 'The Boz', a brash Oklahoma linebacker
First AFC West title Dave Krieg and Curt Warner edged out Denver for the franchise's first division crown
Steve Largent's farewell The NFL's then-career leader in catches, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns played his final game
Slumped to 2-14 An offense that scored just 140 points, the fewest of the 16-game era, dragged the club to its worst record
Largent enshrined in Canton The sure-handed wideout became the franchise's first Hall of Fame inductee
Nearly lost the team Owner Ken Behring moved the club's headquarters to Southern California before the league forced a return
Paul Allen bought the team The Microsoft co-founder stepped in to keep the franchise in Seattle after voters approved a new stadium
Hired Mike Holmgren The Super Bowl-winning Packers coach arrived with sweeping control as coach and general manager
Kingdome imploded The concrete-domed original home was demolished in seconds, sending the team to Husky Stadium while a new venue rose
Opened their new stadium Moved into an open-air home built on the Kingdome site the same year the league realigned them back into the NFC West
Eleven straight wins Shaun Alexander piled up touchdowns during a franchise-record winning streak that locked up the NFC's top seed
Played in Super Bowl XL The franchise's first Super Bowl trip ended in a controversial loss to the Steelers in Detroit
Hired Pete Carroll The USC coach returned to the NFL and, with new GM John Schneider, drafted Earl Thomas that spring
The Beast Quake Marshawn Lynch's tackle-shattering 67-yard playoff run against the Saints registered on a seismometer
Drafted Russell Wilson A third-round Wisconsin quarterback deemed too short by scouts beat out big-money signing Matt Flynn
Legion of Boom dominance Richard Sherman's secondary led the league in points and yards allowed during a 13-3 campaign
Won Super Bowl XLVIII Smothered Peyton Manning's record-setting Broncos 43-8 in New Jersey for the franchise's first championship
Goal-line heartbreak Malcolm Butler's interception at the one-yard line ended the bid for back-to-back titles against New England
Marshawn Lynch announced retirement Beast Mode said it without words, tweeting a photo of cleats hanging on a wire during the Super Bowl
Traded Russell Wilson The franchise quarterback was dealt to Denver in a blockbuster that returned a haul of players and draft picks
Pete Carroll era ended After fourteen seasons, the franchise's winningest coach stepped aside and Mike Macdonald was hired