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Hello, this is my comic, which I created last class. The title is "Super Dog". Please read it! 



 

Tyler Lockett and Great Game

This blog post is the last, but I still have many interesting Seattle Seahawks's players to tell you about. Today, I will interoduce a rookie player who will be a noteworthy player from now on. This player is Tyler Lockett, and he was born in 1992, so he is older than maybe only 2 years old us. His father, whose name is Kevin Lockett was a professional american football player too. He is a wide receiver, a punt returner and a kickoff returner. The WR is the same as Chris Matthews, who I wrote about in blog post #6. He graduated from Kansas State University and played college football at this university. When he was a university student, he got many great records. For example, he got All Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Year (2013, 2014) and Alamo Bowl Sportsmanship MVP (2015) and more. And he is a specialist at returning, so I hope you to watch a kickoff return or a punt return of Lockett. He joined the Seattle Seahawks this year, but he already played anactive part. When he took part in the first game, he had a 103 yard kick return touchdown. This touchdown was his first touchdown of the season for the team. The total yards of his receiving is 346 yards, and he had 3 touchdowns. And the total yards of his kickoff returns is 608 yards, with 1 touchdown up to now.

In November 29 (November 30 in Japan), the Seattle Seahawks played a game with the Steelers, and the Seattle Seahawks won. In this game, Russell Wilson (QB) passed a total of 345 yards, with 5 touchdowns. This is his best record!! Other Seattle Seahawks players played an active part too. Thomas Rawls (RB) ran 21 times for 81 yards and 1 touchdown. Doug Baldwin (WR) received 6 times for 145 yards and 3 touchdowns. And the defensive force of the Seattle Seahaks intercepted 4 times. This game is very exciting, but I regretted that I couldn't watch this game on TV. The game was broadcast only by GAORA, which I couldn't watch, so I watched only the NFL website. Hwever this game's day was Wilson's birthday, so I was glad for the win. After this game, Wilson said, "Best birthday gift I could ask for! Seattle Seahawks W! #gohawks" on his twitter. When I read it, I was happy, too. So I did a retweet soon. Let's check this game with that video!
https://youtu.be/jyOpwVBYZL8

Chris Matthews

Today, I will introduce one of my favorite players, Chris Matthews. He was born in 1989, so he is 26 years old, and he graduated from the University of Kentucky. This university is famous for its American football team. His position is wide receiver (WR). This position is the leader of a pass play with the QB, so the main role of the WR is to catch a pass, which the QB throws in a pass play. The WR needs speed, a sure skill of catching a pass, to be tall and have long arms. Matthews is 196 centimeters, so he is taller than other players.

Matthews belonged to the Seattle Seahawks since 2014. He is called a "Cinderella Boy" by fans of American football, because he played an active part in the Super Bowl XLIX (49th). In that year, he wasn't active. He took part in regular season games only 3 times, so he didn't catching any passes or score touchdowns. But when he took part in Super Bowl XLIX (49th), he succeeded in important pass catches. In the second quarter, Russell Willson, who is the great QB threw a pass to Matthews, and then Matthews caught a pass of 44-yards. And in the remaining 6 seconds of the same quarter, he caught a pass and scored a touchdown!! His passing yardage was over 100 yards only in this game. It's a wonderful record!! He couldn't even catch a pass in the regular season, but he accomplished that great undertaking on the big stage of the Super Bowl. When I watched his great performances on TV, I was very excited!! In this game, the Seattle Seahawks lost, though Matthews played an active part, but I think that if the Seattle Seahawks had won, Matthews would have been chosen MVP.

If you want to watch exciting football, you should watch the Super Bowl and I want you to watch Mattthwes's big play in the bottom of two video clips. The Super Bowl is the 50th anniversary this time, so participants in the Super Bowl must have big performances. I am excited from now, because I can watch big and great performances by players like Chris Mattthews.

Steven Hauschuka

I will introduce Steven Hauschuka, who has been a member of the Seattle Seahawks since 2011. I like him, because he is so cool!! Of course, I like his performances and skills too. He has also been a member of the Baltimore Ravens (2008-2009), the Atlanta Falcons (2009), the Detroit Lions (2010) and the Denver Broncos (2010), so he has a lot of experience with many NFL teams. He was born in 1985, so he is 30 years old. His age is older than his teammates in the Seahawks, because the average age of the Seahawks is about 26 years old. Players of the Seahawks are younger than other NFL teams, like the New England Patriots, so people sometimes call the Seahawks a "Frash Team". Steven Hauschka is a placekicker, or a kicker (PK or K). This position  kicks field goals and also punts. The salary of  players, who are kickers is lower than players, who are in other positions, and practice less than other positions. So kickers are sometimes allowed to go back to their home when players in other positons are the still practicing. But the PK is a specialist of kicks, so their kicking skills are great!! Formerly, the PK was a player of small-size, but big-size players appeared in recent years because of muscle training.

In week 4 of the 2013 season, Steven Hauschka was chosen as the NFC Special Team Player of the week. It's like an All Star in Japanese professional baseball.

On October 23, the Seattle Seahawks played a game with the San Francisco 49ers, and with the Dallas Cowboys in November 2. The Seahawks won both games. I'm so happy, because the Seahawks lost 4 games in a row, and they only won 3 games. So I think that players of the Seahawks showed themselves at their best at last, and the games with the 49ers and the Cowboys gave the Seahawks a chance to show what they can do. In both games, Steven Hauschka kicked a　total of 4 field goals. So if you watch an American football game, you should watch not only the main positions, which are like QB, RB and WR and so on, but also the PK. This is my recommedation.

The City of Seattle

When I became writing about the Seattle Seahawks, I was interested in the City of Seattle. So I will introduce some information about Seattle.

Fist, the city of Seattle is the biggest city in the Northwest in America, and it is called "the emerald city", because it is between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, and the city is encircled by water and nature. For example, Lake Union and Lake Green are nearby, so this city is beautiful. There are a lot of Japanese restaurants, so many Japanese tourists come there. I think that it's easy for Japanese people to live there. If I go to there and I want to eat Japanese food, I can find good Japanese food in there.

Secondly, it is famous a city that has many rainy days, but to tell the truth, this city's the amount of rainfall isn't as much as we think. Most of the rain is light rain, so people say, ‟ Real Seattle people don't put up theirs umbrellas; only tourists and cowards put up their umbrellas.”. When this city has a rainy day, but not heavy rain, most of real Seattle people only put on a hood with a parka.

Thirdly, this city is home to some big company. For example, the Boeing Company is there, as well as Tully's Coffee Corporation, which became famous for Seattle Coffee, Starbucks Corporation, Amazon.com and Costco. You know most of these companies, don't you? The first Starbucks store is there, so if you go to this city, try to go to the first Starbucks!! I think that is a good experience for you.

Fourthly, outdoor and winter sports are popular in this city, so there are some professional teams. Those are the Seattle Seahawks (NFL), the Seattle Sounders FC (MLS), the Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL), the Seattle Storm (WNBA) and the Seattle Mariners (MLB) and so on. I watch the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Mariners games, because I'm a big fan of the Seattle Seahawks and I love professional baseball too. I can only watch those games, so that is my dream.

Finally, one of a symbols of this city is the Space Needle. It was built when an international exposition was held in 1962. It is 184 meters high, so if you climb it, you can see beautiful views. Especially, the night view is so beautiful!! And other symbols of the city are Pike Place Market and Kerry Park. And I am surprised that the city of Seattle is a sister city of Kobe. Kobe is a Japanese city near Osaka. When I knew it, I felt close to the city of Seattle, and I want to go to the city of Seattle more.

Do you know "Big Mouth"?

Do you know the Seattle Seahawks player who is called "Big Mouth"? "Big Mouth" sometimes uses abusive language and his plays are violent, but he's a great American football player, and he graduated from the Stanford University, so he is clever too. This player's name is Richard Sherman. He was born in 1989 and he is 26 yeards old. I think that his long hair is his characteristic hairstyle, so if you can't find him, you should look for his long hair and his wearing uniform number 25. He has belonged to the Seattle Seahawks since 2011. His position is Cornerback (CB). The CB  mainly defends against the pass. If an opponent throws the ball and passes to the same team's player, the CB blocks the passed ball. So the CB must be quick at running, because this position competes with the attacking team many times.

When Sherman was a high school student, he belonged to the football team and to the track and field team. He left on many great records of both American football and track and field.

By the way, the Seattle Seahawks have played 5 games this season, but they only have 2 wins now. I thought about why the Seattle Seahawks aren't winning. Firstly, the Seahawks usually have an impregnable defense, but they're not can't showing it. Secondly, opposing players were being particularly careful to cover Marshawn Lynch, who I wrote about in the second post, when the Seattle Seahawks's offense attacked the enemy lines. But Lynch was injured in a game with the Bears on September 28th. I was surprised at this news and shocked. But I'm not worried, as some great NFL players joined the Seattle Seahawks this year, so I'm in expectating more wins from the Seattle Seahawks from now on.

Marshawn Lynch

Today, I'll introduce another important player of the Seattle Seahawks. His name is Marshawn Lynch. He is 28 years old, and his position is Running Back (RB). The RB is mainly running plays. Lynch is a Seattle Seahawks player now, but he was a Buffalo Bills player from 2007 to 2010, so he has belonged to the Seattle Seahawks since 2010. Some of his relatives were NFL player, so I think that becoming an NFL player was his desteny!! And I like his character, because when he entered the Super Bowl in 2014, he ate a chocolate bar on the bench during a game!! It's funny, so I like his idiosyncratic personarity.

In his University of California days, he set many records. For example, he ran for 3230 yards (a yard=0.9144m) in 3 years in his university days. And he made a new record at his university. This record is that he ran over 100 yards 17 times.

Lynch has made aome interesting records in his career. For example, when he was a rookie in 2007,  he ran over 100 yards in the same game as Fred Jackson, who is Lynch's teammate. The Bills hadn't had two 100 yards rushers in a game since 1996.

In 2010, Lynch played an active part. The one play, 8 opposing players tried to tackle him, but he dodged them and ran 67 yards and scored a touchdown!! The Seattle Seahawks won because of him. I like this kinds of play, because it's so cool and exciting, and I was supprised to know that his power is supernatural strength.

You are interested in Marshawn Lynch, aren't you? If you are interested in him, let's check him!! It is absolutely certain that he will play an active part this year.