Dareke Young currently has Seahawks uniform #83.
I think Raible certainly deserves special attention because of his contributions in the booth after his playing days. I can "hear" in my head two specific phrases without even trying: "holy catfish!" and "touchdown Seahawks!" I tried to find a way to be able to hear his broadcasts of Seahawks games rather than have to listen to crap like Aikman and (dum)B(f)uck or that senile idiot Dick Stockton, but none of the free VPNs I found fooled the listen-via-internet site into thinking I was within 100 miles of what was then the CLink (now Lumen Field).
It's weird, but Branch might well be the player who did the most with uniform number 83 for the Seahawks.
Lockette was one memorable player who used it fairly recently. The injury that ended his career was scary.
The memory of Seahawks uni number 83 that comes to mind immediately is from the first game I ever watched with other Seahawks fans, which was in November of 2018 even though I've been a Seahawks fan since '76.
I had gone to Las Vegas for the big annual Amazon Web Services event called Re:Invent in late November of 2018.
At the airport, when I was standing in line to get some Re:Invent-related stuff before going to the hotel, I saw some guys in line and at least one of them was wearing a Seahawks cap. I said "go 'Hawks!" and we talked a little. When I arrived at my hotel (the MGM Grand), football games were on big screens behind the check-in desks. I already knew that the Seahawks-Panthers game had started, and I quickly found the screens showing it. After checking in, I ran up to my room, put on a Seahawks jersey, and went down to the MGM Grand's sports book to watch the Seahawks game. I remember thinking the Seahawks pretty much
had to win to have a shot at the postseason, but I have to confess I don't remember the details as I write this, so I'm going to look at the numbers...
OK, the Rams were 10-1, the Saints 9-1, the Bears (!!) 7-3, the Panthers and Washington 6-4, the Vikings 5-4-1, and the Seahawks and Cowboys 5-5. "Only" six teams from each conference made the playoffs (the NFL is still not at NHL/NBA levels of ridiculousness, where those two leagues play 82-game seasons to eliminate fewer than half the teams, but seven teams per conference is already pretty ridiculous), and the Seahawks were seventh in the conference at the time.
When I got to the sports book, I saw that all the NFL games being played (plus a bunch of other sports events) at that time were on big screens. Some games were on multiple screens. And I was thrilled to see that there were a bunch of other people around wearing Seahawks gear. I met a few who came and stood close to where I was standing, including the guys I had met at the airport (when we were at the airport, I didn't know we were staying in the same hotel, because Re:Invent was being held at seven hotels, plus I knew that a friend who was working at the same company as I and was also at Re:Invent had had to get a room at a hotel near mine, because there were no rooms left in any of the seven Re:Invent hotels). It was
so cool to be able to talk live (not in an online forum discussion) with other Seahawks fans about players, plays, the state of the game, everything.
Late in the fourth quarter (3:33 remaining, and yes, I had to look that up), with the Seahawks down by seven, the Seahawks had the ball and was fourth down (that part I remembered) and short (looked it up: 4th and 3). Then the play at 9:35 in the video linked below happened (I tried to make a link with the specific time of the play, but because the NFL doesn't want people watching this video from sites other than YouTube, it'll show "video unavailable" here, so you'll have to click on "watch on YouTube" to see it, and the time part of the URL ("&t=575") doesn't stick when that happens, so just jump to 9:35 in the video on YouTube
)
After more than 42 years of being a Seahawks fans, I was able to celebrate a big Seahawks moment with other Seahawks fans for the first time. It's hard to express how happy that made me.
I liked Moore, and he participated in several memorable plays in his time with the Seahawks. I think this one was the best. The Seahawks tied the game with that big ol' TD and the extra point, and then actually won at the very end of regulation time - no overtime needed - with a field goal.
Other memorable things happened in that game, but they involved uniform numbers we won't see in this thread for a while yet. There's one in particular I might post here 51 days from now.
