Score!
How Seattle's gridiron gang tackled its 2009 downtime.
FOOTBALL, AS SPORTS-CLICHÉ spouters say, is a game of inches. But the off-season? In the Seahawks’ case, it was a full-contact fight for headlines best measured in texts, tweets, and blood-alcohol content.
Aaron Curry
$30 million
Guaranteed amount Wake Forest University linebacker Aaron Curry said he’d accept if perennial loser Detroit Lions made him the first overall pick in the 2009 draft, a deal he discussed with Detroit’s GM via text message.
4th
Overall pick that the Seahawks eventually used to draft Curry, after the Lions declined to choose him.
$34 million
Guaranteed amount that Curry signed with Seattle for.
80 million
Texts Curry can afford to send Detroit’s GM with that additional $4 million to say, “Yo, thnx 4 not picking me!”
Jim Mora
14,411
Vertical feet new coach Jim Mora climbed in his fundraising trek up Mount Rainier in July.
12
People in Mora’s climbing party, which included NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, whom Mora personally invited.
10,000
Altitude, in feet, at which a human’s mental and physical alertness can begin to decline.
10,004
Altitude, in feet, at which one can only assume Goodell decided it would be a good idea to reinstate former Atlanta Falcon and convicted dog killer Michael Vick.
Published: October 2009
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