Originally published Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 12:00 AM
Seahawks
Seahawks Notes: Four Hawks voted to All-Pro team
Four Seahawks made the NFL's All-Pro team Monday: left tackle Walter Jones, left guard Steve Hutchinson, fullback Mack Strong and running...
Seattle Times staff reporter
KIRKLAND — Four Seahawks made the NFL's All-Pro team Monday: left tackle Walter Jones, left guard Steve Hutchinson, fullback Mack Strong and running back Shaun Alexander. Jones is a three-time honoree, Hutchinson made the first team for the second time, and Alexander and Strong are first-team All-Pros for the first time.
It is the most first-team All-Pros the Seahawks have produced in a single season in team history. Seattle had five All-Pros in 1984, but three were on the first team and two made the second team.
Alexander was a second-team All-Pro in 2004. The 2005 NFL Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year earned 49 of 50 possible votes for the first team this year. He joined Tiki Barber of the New York Giants as first-team All-Pro running backs.
Jones, a first-team selection in 2001 and 2004, got 47 votes to lead all offensive linemen. Hutchinson, who made the first team in 2003 and the second team last season, was tops among guards with 40. Strong earned 28 votes.
Though no Seahawks made the second team, rookie linebacker Lofa Tatupu got three votes. The Indianapolis Colts also had four players named to the first team and six in all.
12th-man mania goes sky-high
Seattle has Seahawks fever, and everyone will get to see it.
The team's 12th-man flag, which is normally raised at Qwest Field just before kickoff at games, will fly atop the Space Needle this week to salute the Seahawks during the playoffs.
Ed Viesturs, a well-known Seattle mountain climber whose motivational speech inspired the Seahawks before the regular season started, will raise the flag in a ceremony today. Viesturs started the Seahawks' 2005 tradition of hanging chains of blue-and-green mountain-climbing carabiners (hooks) from their lockers for every win.
Also, the Pacific Science Center, located near the Space Needle, will light up its signature 101-foot-high arches in blue and white to honor the Seahawks this week, beginning tonight at dusk through Saturday night.
The Seahawks, who host the Washington Redskins Saturday afternoon in the divisional playoffs, are looking for their first playoff win since 1984. Tickets went on sale Monday morning and sold out in 10 minutes.
Alexander is calling on fans to bring the noise.
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"I don't expect, not one play, that the Redskins are going to be able to hear a call," Alexander said. "I expect it to be so loud that people are going to think they're at a rock concert or sitting right next to a jet. Anything less than that and I'm probably going to be disappointed and shocked."
Notes
• Washington will leave for Seattle on Thursday in an effort to get acclimated to the West Coast time change before the playoff game.
• The Seahawks have voted on three additional team captains to join the original captains during the postseason.
Joining regular-season captains Matt Hasselbeck, Grant Wistrom and Isaiah Kacyvenski were Alexander (offense), Tatupu (defense) and KR Josh Scobey (special teams).
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