More than a decade ago, I was known in my neighborhood as the local resident Seattle Seahawks expert. I was running a small, family-owned grocery store at the time, and I made the rule that the Seahawks games HAD to be on (none of the other employees cared about football, but this was the one time in my life I shamelessly power-tripped my staff). Sure, I watched a ton of hockey and basketball there too, but people came to talk to me to ask for Seahawks updates, or just to know what was going on with the roster or even to simply bemoan a recent loss or coaching decision.
Lifelong fan achieves dream, flies too close to the sun, retires from writing forever
