I can't say much - I'm a bandwagoner. I followed them casually when I was a kid starting in 1990, but my real interest in the team started in 1994 when they started winning and then later went to a Super Bowl at the end of the 1996 season. I started the site in 1997 because it got me so fired up and I jumped on
But because of that run, I started going to training camp at Bryant College back in 1998 where just a handful of people would attend practices during the Pete Carroll years and you could stand right on the sideline and watch everything going on pretty easily. Getting autographs for the kids was easy. They had one big year and then Parcells left, and the optimism waned during the "border war" years. It was a different time.
Now there are thousands of people there and it all changed when the team had their incredible run that obviously started in 2001 when, like me, people got excited. It's a natural progression, which like my experience, winning and championships obviously plays a part in - and winning a Super Bowl completely changed the landscape here.
The unprecedented run where they've won 10+ in every year since 2003 is unreal and there's now an entire generation who doesn't know what 8-8 or 5-11 feels like (or even worse like the early 90s). That's going to be a strange experience when it eventually happens, and while I'm curious to watch it play out - I'm not looking forward to it. I've said it before, this isn't normal and should be appreciated. This will be the era we're all someday talking about when it eventually ends. That's why it's important to at least enjoy it now. It won't last forever.
That's also why it's important for all of us to never give up in the first quarter/first half - or really until the final whistle. We've all experienced some incredible wins and we've learned that it's never over with this team.
