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| Sports |
| The first major professional modern day sports franchise started
in Seattle was the Seattle Supersonics (later "Seattle
Sonics") National Basketball Association team (1967). They
were joined by the Seattle Pilots baseball team in 1969. Both
team names reflected the local importance of the aerospace industry.
The Pilots lasted only one year, playing at Sick's Stadium,
previously home to several minor league teams, before relocating
to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their sole season was immortalized
in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four. |
| Legal wrangling over the move of the Pilots pressured Major
League Baseball to award Seattle a new franchise, the Mariners,
starting in 1977. The Mariners would play in the newly built
Kingdome, an indoor sports facility they shared with the Seattle
Seahawks of the National Football League, who started play the
previous year. For a time, all three of the city's major sports
teams used the Kingdome, despite criticism of it as a sterile,
unattractive venue. It was little lamented when demolished in
2000, and replaced with a new stadium (later named Qwest Field)
built for the Seahawks on the same site. By this time the other
sports had long since relocated: the Sonics now use KeyArena
exclusively; the Mariners' new home is the well-regarded, retractable-roofed
Safeco Field. |
| The city's first professional sports championship was brought
to the city by way of the PCHA Seattle Metropolitans in 1917.
The professional hockey team, which represented Seattle from
1915-1924, was in fact the first U.S. team to win the coveted
Stanley Cup, beating the Montreal Canadiens. They returned to
the Stanley Cup finals twice more. The first, again versus Montreal,
was in 1919. That series was cancelled due to an outbreak of
influenza with the two teams tied at 2-2-1. The Metropolitans
last went to the Stanley Cup finals in 1920, when they lost
to the Ottawa Senators. |
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Other professional sports teams based in the city include:
- The Seattle Storm: Women's National Basketball Association
- The Seattle Thunderbirds: Western Hockey League (ice hockey).
- The Seattle Sounders: men's USL First Division and W-League
women's soccer.
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| In addition, the University of Washington, Seattle University,
and Seattle Pacific University field teams in a variety of sports,
including football and basketball. Their teams are known as
the Huskies, Redhawks, and Falcons, respectively. The Husky
football team has a wide following that ranks with those of
the major professional teams in the city. |
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