Packers fans invaded Seahawks stadium and silenced the 12s on SNF
For like the last twenty years, all we've been hearing about is how hard it is to play in Seattle. Whether it's the rain or the stadium's weird acoustics or Kam Chancellor, the Seahawks have always benefited from very on-brand home field advantage, and only a half-dozen teams have a better home record over the last 10 seasons. It's become a bit of a Thing over that time, and now it's the opening line of every Seahawks broadcast.
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At least [/puts on tinfoil hat] that's what they want you to think. It's easy to assume that just because it's a big neon green Sunday Night Football game at home against one of the best teams in the NFC, that the Seahawks' crowd would bring it. They always do! Some borderline A-list celebrity from Seattle would raise the flag, they'd make a few richter scale references, and we'd be off.
You see why nostalgia is so powerful. Because as it turns out, that's extremely not the case this week. Thanks to one (1) single tweet from one (1) single angle at Lumen Field, it sure looks like most of the bottom bowl is full of Packers fans.
Seattle's infamous 12th Man sure doesn't look like it used to
A Go! Pack! Go! cheer too? That's a tough look for Seattle. I don't blame anyone for staying home on Sunday night, but Seahawks fans have a certain reputation that they need to live up to. And Green Bay fans travel well, but that means in, like, Arizona. And Washington. And obviously Las Vegas. There really isn't an excuse for Seahawks fans getting even optically outnumbered in their own stadium on a nationally-televised night game.
On another note, how about a quick round of applause for the Cheesehead. It makes dunking on opposing fans so much easier. If no one in this picture was wearing a giant wedge of cheese on their head, I probably wouldn't have been able to tell anyone apart. But because there are dozens and dozens and dozens of people wearing giant wedges of cheese on their heads for a football game, the crowd size punchline really lands. It's a good bit.