With a knock on his hotel door Saturday in Minneapolis, Steve Hutchinson will know he has become a Hall of Famer. The guard, who played his first five seasons with the Seahawks before the infamous “poison pill” contract clause, hopes it will legitimize his career.
Here we go again: On Saturday, an athlete with deep Seattle ties will find out if he has made the Hall of Fame.
There are obvious reasons Steve Hutchinson’s quest to reach the NFL pinnacle hasn’t garnered the same near-hysterical local focus as that of the Mariners’ Edgar Martinez a week ago.