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The Spokesman Review was there.
Seahawk Fans Afire Following 'Close' Loss
Sarkowsky, managing general partner of the expansion of Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League, was among 58, 441 screaming foot stomping fans who gathered in Kingdome Sunday to witness the Seahawks NFL regular season debut against the explosive St. Louis Cardinals.
"I'm disappointed we didn't win, but pleased we played well enough to have a chance to win," Sarkowsky said Monday of the Seahawks stubborn fight to the final gun before falling 30 to 24. "I thought we played quite well for the first game and the people we had in the line up."
"I'm optimistic," he continued. "I feel we have a chance to win every game, but realistically I guess we aren't going to. I think everybody's pleased. They're (the coaching staff) doing a fine job to get good spirit and it's going to pay off the long run.
"And there's one thing about Seattle fans. They don't sit on their emotions."
Seattle trailed 23 to 3 later in the third period before young first-year quarterback Jim Zorn got untracked and passed twice for touchdowns and ran for a third that gave the Cards a scare. Zorn's desperation pass from the St. Louis 43 on an "everybody deep" pattern with four seconds left in the game was intercepted at the goal line by Mike Sensibaugh.
"We might get a lift from coming close, I don't know." said Seattle coach Jack Patera. "As the game goes along you see there is a possibility to win. If these people we have learn we can win when we don't make errors, we could be a pretty good club."
Zorn who led Seattle throughout the preseason, and to it's only victory -a last-minute 17 to 16 triumph over San Diego - completed 17 of 37 passes for 292 yards and two interceptions. The 23-year-old Cal Poly-Pomona graduate expressed some surprise at Seattle's late rally.
"I don't know how we did it, really," he said. "I guess we had nothing to lose so we just came out and went wild."
Seattle's veteran linebacker Mike Curtis is not a fan of moral victories. "I'll tell you further about this team as the season progresses. If we're still playing like this, coming back when we play Dallas and Minnesota, teams like that, then it will mean something.
"Sure, we don't give up. But the coaches prepare us well. And what are we going to do, give up? You don't want coaches screaming at you when they show the movies."
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