As a lifetime Seahawks fan, this post will be undoubtedly biased. But I felt the need to respond when my pro team was compared to one of the most deplorable teams in athletic history.
As far as the obnoxious fan base goes: you’ll find those in any fan base. It may be worse in recent history due to the success of the team, but I don’t think we’re nearly as annoying as all the Broncos fans here in Salt Lake, or Cowboys fans nation wide. Or Pats fans, period.
Over-celebrating, again, happens on every single play in the NFL. Look at Antonio Brown, JJ Watt (when he’s healthy), Dez Bryant, O.D.B. Jr, Josh Norman, the list goes on.
As far as douche coach and players, I’m assuming you’re talking about Pete Carroll’s USC years. Yeah, recruiting violations, eligibility issues at a marquee program. That’s never happened before. Pick any program, especially between 2000-2010, and I’m sure you could find problems. He did bolt the program as soon as he could in order to skirt any repercussions, I’ll give you that. But as far as I’m concerned, he’s a good coach (players love to play for him) and a good dude.
Regarding douche players, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you’re mostly speaking to Richard Sherman. I have a love/hate relationship with Sherman. He’s incredibly smart and works hard. But he’s a headcase as well. Aside from our Superbowl season, I would not consider his play to be “elite”, nor would I place him in the category of a true “shutdown corner”. He’s good, really good at times. But especially this season he’s been caught out of position a number of times and gotten beat a few times.
He plays with passion and that gets him in some messy situations with officials and opposing players. He likes to run his mouth, and it bugs me. I think I’d be okay with it if he was truly playing at an elite level. If you’re referring to the field goal debacle last night. I do think there was a case for roughing the kicker, but it wasn’t a “dirty” play. He was diving to make a play on the ball and there’s no way he could’ve adjusted his momentum or angle by the time the whistle was blown.
Anyway, just my two cents, from a somewhat biased source.
Utah @ 
Colorado .
