From the Archives: Evans-Rozelle letters on NFL expansion team
(Image courtesy of Washington State Archives) For so many in our region, the Seattle Seahawks have been as long a Northwest presence as rain, moss, conifers and Mount Rainier. But there are some of us who remember when there was no Seahawks team around here, when the nearest pro football teams were the (horrors!) Oakland Raiders and (gasp!) San Francisco 49ers. That all changed when the NFL awarded Seattle a franchise in 1974. The Seahawks began play in 1976 as…