Chuck Knox, who died Saturday at age 86, was the person who made the Seahawks relevant. It’s hard to remember now, when “12s” have Super Bowl parades and the disruptive cacophony of CenturyLink Field fresh in their minds, but it wasn’t always that way.
Chuck Knox once said that his favorite “Knox-ism” — the homespun philosophy by which he lived life and coached up football players — was this one: “Never overload your butt with your mouth.”
There was a Knox-ism corollary to this that brought it all home: “What you do speaks so well there’s no need to hear what you say.