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Wild Card/Monday — 2.2.15

Even I, a 49er fan, was yelling at the television set when Seattle eschewed a near-certain-TD handoff to Marshawn Lynch for a high-risk pass call in the final seconds of Super Bowl XLIX. I was watching the game with a Seahawks fan who also has the misfortune of being a WSU graduate who lives and mostly dies rooting for the Cougars. My friend automatically realized that the Seahawks had "Couged it." Believe it or not, I was pulling for the Hawks to win, so many of you loyal HucksOnline readers would be happy today. But that bobbling catch by Jermaine Kearse was the last magic the Hawks would experience this year. Alas. Here's your somewhat depressed Monday Wild Card ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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