I decided days ago that nothing was going to rain on my parade when I got to Lumen Field to watch the Seattle Seahawks take on an intimidating Cleveland Browns team. Rain or shine, win or lose, it was going to be a special day.

The Seattle Seahawks used to wear the best uniforms in the Nation Football League.

Nope! Strike that. The best football uniforms on Planet Earth.

From 1983 to 2001, the Seahawks donned a bitchin’ sweet silver helmet, silver green and blue pants, and a sweet ass blue and green jersey, and the rest of the league looked like professional bugger eaters next to them. Sure, the 49ers and Broncos might have been way better teams, but their uni’s sucked donkey nuggets.

I understood why the team changed up the look in 2001. Paul Allen had now owned the team and built a brand new stadium. The nineties Seahawks had a stigma. They were run into the ground by a horrendous previous owner, and they were almost moved to Los Angeles. Allen stepped in, and bought the team with a promise by local leaders that a new stadium would be built.

I think Allen wanted to turn the page from the Ken Behring years as much as he could. A new stadium, along with a new look for the team felt completely understandable. The thing of it was, though, the Seattle Seahawks in the 1980’s, when the Nordstrom family owned them, were a lot of fucking fun, and this region loved them passionately,

As a young teen in 1983, I fell in love with them when Dave Krieg took over at quarterback for Jim Zorn, and guided them to the AFC Championship Game. I have been hooked on them ever since.

And I have been waiting for years to see them back in the uniforms that I loved watching every Sunday as a teen and then as a young adult. The Cleveland Browns could have come into Seattle and boat raced them, and I would have enjoyed seeing the team in those magnificent colors again.

Fortunately, that did not happen. Nay, the Seahawks managed to prevail during this long awaited day. It wasn’t easy, and I think they made it harder on themselves than necessary, but at the end, they made more of the better plays, and Cleveland did not.

I suspect much is going to be made about Geno Smith on local sports radio and on that X thing formerly known as Twitter. Many people on knee deep stuck in their priors about him, and are pining for his replacement. I am not one of them, but in my view, even I would say Geno had a sporadic day.

During the first few offensive series, I thought he looked great, and he eventually had a beautiful roll out touchdown pass to Tyler Lockett. He also threw an interception close to the red zone that prevented Seattle from scoring more right before the half, and then tossed another pick later in the game. Additionally, he threw another ball that could have easily been a pick six had the Cleveland DB held onto the pass.

The picks weren’t even the most concerning thing for me. From my nose bleeder vantage, I saw him give up on receivers who looked open a few times, and he was weirdly off on his accuracy at other times.

I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he was facing a top defense against the pass, and maybe that was leading to some erratic decisions and accuracy issues, but I will also say the a $30 plus million dollar a year quarterback needs to play better. I will also further say that when the defense came up with a HUGE in the final minutes to get an interception off of JAMAL ADAMS’ HEAD, and got the ball back for the offense, I felt that Geno Smith was going to guide this offense for the go ahead score, and guess what?

Geno Smith marvelously guided Seattle for the go ahead score with some sweet ass passes.

So, you can criticize him all you want to about playing poorly during portions of the game, but you have to also praise him for how he finished it off. He engineered a come from behind win in the closing seconds that was capped by a fun screen pass score by Jaxon Smith Ngijba led by a fantastic block by DK Metcalf. Bravo.

Also bravos go out to the Seahawks continuing to win with young player stepping up. JSN had 3 catches for 36 yards and a score. Jake Bobo had two grabs for 23 yards, and a fun rushing score early in the game to further solidify his cult hero status. Boye Mafe got another sweet as sugar pie sack in the game making it five sacks in five games in a row for him now, and cornerbacks Riq Woolen, Devon Witherspoon, and Tre Brown all had solid games.

The young corners are playing so well together with the safeties now, you have to wonder where quarterbacks are apt to go to with the ball. This bodes really well for this defense moving forward. Cleveland is a really good team, I think, and Seattle’s defense made it hard on them even though they allowed themselves to get burned by the screen pass a few times.

The icing on the cake for the youngster participants in this contest, however, was the running back tandem of Ken Walker and Zach Charbonnet. K9 had 8 carries for 66 yards, and Zach had 5 carries for 53 yards, and caught a couple nice passes. For as loaded up as this offense is at receiver and tight end, it’s the backs who really get my juices flowing when the get going. With these two guys, I think Seattle has the potential to have the best backfield in the league in a short amount of time.

Their production on the ground begs the question, yet again, why offensive coordinator Shane Waldron did not dial up more play action for Geno Smith? It seemed like the vast majority of his 37 pass attempts were off of straight drop backs. This has kind of become an odd trend, lately, considering how well Geno had been playing off of play action earlier in the season. With these two backs, and Geno being pretty good at it, you would think play action would be more of the focus of the attack.

But like I said, nothing was going to rain on my Seahawk parade in this one. It was beyond fantastic to be at the stadium for this game. It was great to see the team play in those fabulous old colors, it was fun listening to all the nineties and eighties music that filled the air, and the crowd was electric.

There was an air about the place that felt like the high points of Seahawk football in the old Kingdome. It was loud, and proud. The whole place went holy bat shit when that pass bounced off of Jamal Adams’ glorious silver helmet, and into the loving mitts of Julian Love. I knew then and there that we were going to score and win the game.

It just had that old special Kingdome feeling.

I’m so glad that I was there for this game. It wasn’t the prettiest win, but it was a very Seattle Seahawk-y win.

I won’t lie. I also want to see this team return to these uniforms permanently. Enough time has gone by from the sad sack Ken Behring ownership days. As this young team moves further away from the historic Legion Of Boom Seahawk team, let them have their own look. I suspect many of these young guys would love to make this uniform look regular.

And why wouldn’t they? They looked great in them!

After all, it’s the dopest look in the league and it isn’t close. See, I’m a Gen X’er who uses the term dope. That’s bitchin’ rad.

Go Hawks!