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The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise in the National Football League based in Seattle, Washington. They are members of the NFC West division of the National Football Conference. The Seahawks joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Seahawks are owned by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and are currently coached by Pete Carroll. Since 2002 the Seahawks have played their home games at CenturyLink Field near downtown Seattle after previously playing home games in the Kingdome and Husky Stadium.
The Seahawks are the only NFL franchise located in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and thus attract support from a wide geographical area, including Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska, as well as Canadian fans in British Columbia and Alberta.
Seahawks fans are known collectively as the "12th Man", or "12th Fan". The Seahawks' fans have twice set, and currently hold, the Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd noise at a sporting event. On December 2, 2013, during a Monday Night Football game against the New Orleans Saints at CenturyLink Field, the Seahawks' crowd was measured at 137.6 dBs.
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