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When I tell you that the highlight of the Seattle sports weekend was giving a standing ovation to a third-place team, you may think it wasn't much of a weekend. But it was epic, notably for our sports teams getting the worst Indiana lambasting since the Kerry campaign.

Notre Dame 37, Washington 30 (OT)

As I headed to Teddy's to watch Washington vs. Notre Dame (live from South Bend, Indiana), I wondered exactly how empty the bandwagon would be. Coming off the USC win, the bar was packed for Stanford. But after losing that game, how would it look? Let's let pictures tell the story:

Crowd at Teddy's for UW/Stanford

Crowd at Teddy's for UW/Notre Dame

So--yeah, Seattle sports fans, you are some fairweather sons of bitches. And you missed an amazing game, one that will always be remembered for the stunning inability of the Huskies to score one touchdown from twelve tries inside the one-yard-line. If you have a Husky fan at your office, I recommend putting his morning coffee three feet behind a white line and see...

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For only the ninth time since 1998, the Seahawks won't have Walter Jones at left tackle in a game. Jones is still recovering from two surgeries on his left knee in the past nine months. Center Chris Spencer will also miss the game. Coach Mora said Jones and Spencer could both play in Week 2 at San Francisco.

Your cobbled-together O-Line for Saturday: LT Sean Locklear, LG Rob Sims, C Steve Vallos, RG Max Unger, RT Ray Willis. 

Career NFL Starts: Locklear 53; Sims 20; Vallos 5; Unger 0, Willis 10. 

Hrm. Let's hope zone-blocking really works its magic.

In other starting news, Justin Griffith will start at fullback over Owen Schmitt. Griffith's in his seventh NFL season, he played for the Raiders the past two seasons and played for Jim Mora in Atlanta.

The Seattle Times ran their Seahawks preview section today--here's the lead story, about the changes Mora has made to the team. You can get to the rest of the stories from the box on the side. The section seems to be written for a general audience, there'...

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