The Seattle Seahawks lost arguably the most important person in franchise history on Monday with the news that owner Paul Allen had died from non-Hodgkins lymphoma, just two weeks after he announced that he was ready and hopeful for his second bout against cancer. Allen was 65, having purchased the Seahawks in 1996 when he was only 43, which was 24 years after he started his first company with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Allen next enrolled at Washington State University, dropping out after two years to take a job at Honeywell in Boston, which was near Gates at Harvard.
Report: Seahawks could be sold in wake of Paul Allen’s death
