The Seattle Seahawks Sad, Last Stand at the Kingdome

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On the surface, the final game in Kingdome history sounds like an amazing contest. A playoff showdown serving as an encore to bring the curtain down on an important part of Seattle history. On one side, you had the Seahawks, who hadn’t been to the playoffs for 11 years and hadn’t hosted a playoff game in 14 seasons. Across from them were the Miami Dolphins led by Dan Marino and Jimmy Johnson.
What more could you possibly ask for? Well, as you’re about to find out, a lot. It’s the final game of wild card weekend for the 1999 season, although Y2K has come and gone. Also, one day before this, the world witnessed the Music City Miracle. Don’t expect that kind of excitement today folks.
Anyway, the AFC West Champion Seattle Seahawks are hosting the sixth seed Miami Dolphins. So, how did we get here? For Seattle, it started in the offseason when they let go of Dennis Erickson and his never-ending spiral of mediocrity to hand the keys of the franchise to former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike Holmgren.
The Kingdome would not be the only thing to be demolished in the aftermath of this game. A week later, Miami would be demolished 62-7 by the Jacksonville Jaguars in what was both Marino’s and Jimmy Johnson’s last game.
Seattle would regress the following year and wouldn’t return to the postseason until 2003 by which time they were in a new stadium, new division and had fired Holmgren as General Manager but not as coach.
And as for the Emerald City’s dome, it’s loved but not missed. Sports fans in the Northwest still talk fondly of their memories in the Kingdome but what has replaced it, Lumen Field and T-Moblie Park, are far superior.
There you have it, the sad, last stand of the Seattle Seahawks in the Kingdome.
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[@ETrench1]

Great video!

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

Two teams that were the epitome of backing into the playoffs

[@Redshirt434]

Marino's last game the following week was even sadder.

[@j.barrow4330]

I went to this game. I only remember that it was the last game at the Kingdome and that it was sold out. The place looked full and it was loud. Nothing special

[@anthony_rivera4735]

This is definitely one of the worst wild card games in history.

[@russg9371]

Phil Simms was the worst lol