PHOENIX \u2014 For the first time in their history, the Seahawks will appear on the HBO series \u201cHard Knocks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The announcement was made here Monday night at the NFL\u2019s annual league meeting, according to a report from the NFL Network.<\/p>\n
The report also stated that the New England Patriots will appear on the show in 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cHard Knocks\u201d debuted in 2001 on HBO and follows the life of an NFL team through training camp.<\/p>\n
For years the Seahawks were not eligible because of rules stating that a team did not have to take part if it had appeared in the playoffs over the previous two seasons.<\/p>\n
But those rules were changed a year ago, in part to make the show more appealing. The Seahawks were one of 16 teams that were eligible under new rules that stated only that a team does not have to take part if they were featured on the in-season edition, have a new head coach or had taken part in the training camp edition over the last eight years.<\/p>\n
Former coach Pete Carroll famously was not interested in appearing on \u201cHard Knocks\u201d and the team turned down interest from the league in appearing on the show in 2012 when Seattle was eligible.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt came up awhile back,\u201d Carroll said then. \u201cThey put out their feelers on this deal. This is something that I\u2019m just not interested in and (general manager) John (Schneider) isn\u2019t either and we both see eye-to-eye on that one. So when it came up again here, it was real clear that we didn\u2019t want to do that. I think we\u2019d be a great candidate for it. I think they\u2019d have fun watching us and all that, and we\u2019d put on a good little show for \u2019em, but that\u2019s not what we\u2019re here to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here to put together a great team and win football games. We\u2019re not here to entertain somebody on a TV show, we\u2019re here to win games on Sundays. So, that just doesn\u2019t fit into the mentality and the philosophy. It\u2019s an exciting, fun show, and it\u2019s fun to watch other guys. They ain\u2019t gonna see us, that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the times have changed and the Seahawks will be displayed for all the world to see this summer as they prepare to defend their Super Bowl title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 For the first time in their history, the Seahawks will appear on the HBO series \u201cHard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-844108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116321342138007375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844108","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=844108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}