As Amanda McDonald tells the story, her husband, Jack, a South Carolina native, was 7 years old when he became a Seahawks fan. He hadn’t been to Seattle and didn’t know anyone there.
“He saw a game on TV and he really liked their helmets. And then he got to like watching Steve Largent,” she said.
But it wasn’t until 2002, when she surprised him with a trip from their home in the Charlotte area to Seattle to see a game, that she, too, got hooked — even though the Seahawks lost to the 49ers that day.