Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle that compete in the National Football League as a member of the National Football Conference West division. They have played home games at Lumen Field in the SoDo neighborhood since 2002. The only team in the Pacific Northwest, the Seahawks are named for the osprey, a species of bird also called the sea hawk. They joined the league in 1976 as an expansion team in the NFC West, were assigned to the American Football Conference West from 1977 to 2001, rejoined the NFC in 2002, and played in the Kingdome from 1976 to 1999.