{"id":750511,"date":"2026-02-14T01:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750511\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:45:23","slug":"juneau-seahawks-superfan-travels-to-super-bowl-parade-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750511\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneau Seahawks superfan travels to Super Bowl parade in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juneau resident and Seahawks fan Donna James holds up a copy of The Seattle Times at KTOO on Feb. 12, 2026. (Photo by Lisa Phu\/KTOO)<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people attended the Seahawks Super Bowl 2026 parade in Seattle on Wednesday, and Juneau resident and Seahawks superfan Donna James was one of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Juneau residents Donna James and Ken Willard attended the Super Bowl parade in Seattle on February 11, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Donna James)<\/p>\n

James went to the parade with her partner, Ken Willard, also a Juneau resident. The two decided to make the trip to Seattle after the Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots 29 to 13 in Sunday\u2019s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe watched the Super Bowl, and they announced that the parade was going to be on Wednesday. So right after the Super Bowl, I said, \u2018Well, are we gonna go? Are we gonna go?\u2019 He said, \u2018Let\u2019s get our tickets now.\u2019 So we got our tickets that night, and we flew out on Tuesday,\u201d James said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the day of the parade, James and Willard woke up at 3 in the morning and got to the parade grounds in downtown Seattle at 5 a.m. for an 11 a.m. start time.<\/p>\n

They watched the parade from a bridge on 4th Avenue. James said being at the parade, cheering for her favorite team alongside other \u201c12s\u201d \u2013 as Seahawks fans are known \u2013 was \u201ca dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m around Seattle Seahawk fans, I get this cold chill, a happy feeling. (I\u2019m) just so happy. It\u2019s hard to explain,\u201d James said. \u201cAnd then halfway through, I kind of cried \u2013 just to be at a Super Bowl parade with a favorite team, all the fans.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

James has been a Seahawks fan since 2010. She\u2019s been known to drive around Juneau in a truck with Seahawks decals, and her license plate says \u201cGO HWKS.\u201d<\/p>\n

And she has countless memorabilia \u2013 including Seahawks-themed Tlingit regalia, jewelry and a paddle, signed football helmets and Seahawks luggage. James said she never misses watching a Seahawks game and has attended 18 in person.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Donna James has countless team memorabilia, including a Seahawks-themed cedar hat by Natalie Brown, jewelry by Doug Chilton, and a paddle by George Gardner. (Photo courtesy of Donna James)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juneau resident and Seahawks fan Donna James holds up a copy of The Seattle Times at KTOO on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[107653,7,107654,249,6,238,237,261,2635,505,90184],"class_list":{"0":"post-750511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-donna-james","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ken-willard","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-seattleseahawks","17":"tag-super-bowl","18":"tag-super-bowl-parade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116066460764802540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}