Tag Archives: Seattle Seahawks

The Super Bowl, Comic & Tragic Versions

By Robin Bates | Published: February 3, 2015

The Patriots miraculously escaped a hanging, the Seahawks did not. It’s the difference between Gay’s “Beggars Opera” and Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

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The Miraculous Ride of Tom Brady

By Robin Bates | Published: January 30, 2015

If they win the Super Bowl, Brady and Belichick will become as legendary in the sports world as that patriot of old, Paul Revere.

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The Seahawks: Prepared to Swoop & Kill

By Robin Bates | Published: September 6, 2014

The Seattle Seahawks look prepared, once again, to unleash havoc on the other teams in the NFL–like the hawk in a Robert Cording poem.

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Seahawks: Unleashed, Endlessly Hungry

By Robin Bates | Published: February 3, 2014

Mary Oliver’s poem about hunting hawks about sums up last night’s Super Bowl.

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Is Peyton Manning Pitted against Puck?

By Robin Bates | Published: February 1, 2014

Tomorrow’s Super Bowl drama may be forces of order vs. forces of chaos. Or it may involve Denver trying to outwit a trickster Puck-like team.

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Competing Heroic Narratives in Super Bowl

By Robin Bates | Published: January 25, 2014

One Super Bowl narrative: Manning as the return of the king. Another narrative: Manning as Laius blocking the way of the next generation. Plus: Belichick-Welker in Oedipal drama.

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Zeus Predicts that Broncos Will Win

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2014

A passage in the Odyssey forecasts that Peyton Manning will win the Super Bowl.

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