Seattle Sports

Seattle has the Mariners - it's baseball team that currently owns the longest postseason drought in pro American sports.  They had a chance to break the streak this year, but the second half of the season went tits up and so the streak continues.  Even my rubbish team - the San Diego Padres - managed to complete the season sweep of them this year.  That's not good.  Then we have the Seahawks - one time Superbowl winners, but they should have won more and I feel like their chance of winning more has long gone.  Then we have the Supersonics - the basketball team that acrimoniously moved away in 2008.  And the Sounders - admittedly one of America's more successful soccer teams, but this is the MLS we are talking about so it doesn't really count.  But then there is one more professional sports team in Seattle that isn't as well known as the others but is by far the most successful - they just won their third championship in 14 years this week, with a young team and a genuine chance of this being the start of a dynasty.  I am, of course, talking about the Seattle Storm - and what sport is this I hear you asking?  Well, it's the balls to the wall action of professional women't basketball.  Nope, I have never seen them play and have no intention of.  Professional ice hockey can't come soon enough to Seattle.