In 2019 the Seattle Seahawks finished 4-4 at home and closed the book on the demise of the CenturyLink Lumen home-field advantage.
In just a couple of years, Seattle had gone from stories like this:
To others more like this:
In the 2012-13 seasons, the Seahawks were 15-1 at home and it was every team’s worst nightmare to play on the road in Seattle.
2017 and 2019 were both 4-4, and the media largely gave up on the once-fabled home-field advantage.