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The Seattle Kings On November 2, 1972, The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Kingdome occured. A helmet was on display for the hopeful new NFL franchise, but it wasn't a Seahawks helmet - It was a helmet for the Seattle Kings.
The uniforms were updated in 1983. The striping on the jersey arms now incorporated the Seahawks logo, and the TV numbers moved onto the shoulders. Helmet facemasks changed from silver to blue. Both the logo and the uniforms were redesigned in 2002
which was also the change from the AFC to NFC and they moved in to
Seahawks Stadium (Now Century Link Field). The wordmark and font was
designed by Mark Verlander, while the logo was done in house of the
NFL. The colors were modified to a lighter
"Seahawks Blue", a darker "Seahawks Navy" and neon green piping. The
helmets also were changed from silver to the lighter "Seahawks Blue"
color after a fan poll was conducted. At first, the team had planned to
wear
silver helmets at home and blue helmets on the road, but since NFL
rules forbid the use of multiple helmets, the team held the fan poll to
decide which color helmet would be worn. To date, the Seahawks are the only NFL team to never wear white
uniforms at home. M. Princip over at greenglare.com has a great chart showing the different fonts and alternative fonts used HERE.  Two different 7's on the field in 1982 1976
The Beginning
The Seattle Seahawks debuted in 1976, the team's logo was a stylized royal blue and forest green hawk's head based on Northwestern Native American art. The helmet and pants were gray with the home jersey being royal blue with white, blue and green arm stripes. The road jersey was white with blue and green arm stripes. The TV numbers were 12 inches tall on the front and only 10 inches tall on the back. (NFL & BP) 
 It has been a long thought myth that the Seahawks played the 1976 season without logos on their helmet. Not true. There were some scrimmages that were held without the logos (thanks M. Princip) but all preeason and regular games had logos on their helmets. One reason for this myth are the football cards. Topps did not have the rights to use any logos on their cards, so they were all airbrushed off. For the Seahawks, that meant the cards from 1976-1982 all showed blank helmets. Topps Vault has auctioned off some of the original negatives used for their cards and it shows what they airbrushed out. Great article about it at Fleer Sticker Project out it. 
 Original 1981 Steve Largent Card compared to the original negative from Topps. (Fleer Sticker Proj. & Topps Vault) 1977 - 1979 No Changes 1980 New Shoes The Seahawks made the change from black whites to white.  1981 No Changes 1982 December 3, 1982 , LB Keith Butler became the first Seahawk to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, unfortunatly it wasn't in a positive way. (SIV)  1983 AFC Conference Champion Game Appearance Chuck
Knox brough in a lot of change into Seattle including the uniforms. The striping on the
arms
now incorporated the Seahawks logo, and the TV numbers moved onto the
shoulders. Helmet facemasks changed from gray to blue. (NFL & CC)
 No Changes 1985 A Decade in Seattle The 10th Anniversary logo was added to the side of the pants on the stripe for all games celebrating the first decade of Seahawks history. (NFL & BP)    1986 - 1988 AFC West Champions No Changes 1989 Wilson Athletics puts their 'W' logo on the Seahawks jersey sleeves, but is not consistant on location.  1990 Russell adds their logo on some Seahawks pants with Wilson still on jersey.   1991 Shields Added The NFL shield was added below jersey neck and pants (NFL)  1992 No Changes 1993 Wilson starts moving their logo around including above the sleve decal and forward  1994 Diamond Anniversary NFL 75th anniversary patch added to left chest and Wilson now has logo on pants and a new 7 is seen on the jerseys (SIV & CC)   The Wilson logo was
moving all over the jersey in 1994
 Throwbacks...almost In celebration of the NFL's 75th anniversary, all teams wore throwback uniforms during some point of the season. There were two versions of this uniform: a navy home uniform, and a white road uniform. Unfortunatly, they used the current helmets so they wore the blue facemask instead of the original gray. (SIV)   1995 - 1997 No Changes 1998 Uniforms were made by Nike and their logos were added to the upper sleeves and pants. 1999 AFC West Champions Uniforms were made by Puma and their logos were added to the upper sleeves and pants. In Honor of Frank "Fritz" Shurmur Fritz Shurmur was a
staple on current National Football League head coach
Mike Holmgren's coaching staff in Green Bay. Shurmur left Green Bay in
1999 to be defensive coordinator with the Seahawks when Holmgren
accepted the dual roles of head coach and general manager with Seattle.
Fritz died of cancer before the season began. In his honor, the
Seahawks wore a Black "FS" decal on the back of thier helmets all
season. (GG)
 2000 Happy Anniversary A 25th Anniversary patch was worn on Puma jerseys for Home and Road games all season. (P-I)   2001 Manufacture Change Uniforms were made by Reebok and their logos were added to the upper sleeves and pants. This is the last year for the original style logo and uniforms. (P-I) 
 2002 Its All New 2002 marked the
beginning of a new look for the Seahawks. There were 4 different sets
of uniforms designed. 2 for home and 2 for away. Also, "NFL EQUIPMENT"
tag
replaces NFL shield on jersey neck and front of pants.
2 Color Home and Road The home combination was only worn during two preseason games.   One
Color Home and Road
The road set was only used for the last two road games of the 2002 season. 
 The Helmet and Jerseys that Never Were When the uniforms were shown at a press conference & fashion show before the 2002 season they were a bit different from the uniforms that eventually hit the field. The Reebok logo was on the shoulder directly below the number and the new Seahawks logo on the sleeve was much bigger. Fans had a chance to vote on the new Seahawks Helmet. They had the blue helmet and one done on a silver helmet similar to the older style, but with the new logo. Its been sais, the Seahawks originally wanted to use both, one for home the other for away, but the NFL rules only allow teams to have one official helmet. The blue helmet won and the silver has never seen the field. (P-I)    The Logos that Never Were? Posted on UniWatchblog.com: prototype story from Mike MacCulloch, who writes: “I worked in the Seahawks’ front office from 1997-2000 (ticket office for three seasons and corporate sales for one). I joined the team just after Paul Allen had purchased the team and the state had agreed to build a new stadium. In 2000, just as the team was moving into Husky Stadium while Qwest Field was being built, the team was in the process of designing new uniforms and helmets. During that time, they went through many different designs. At one point they created three different prototype helmets, each in a different color and with different logos on each side of the helmets. The idea at that time was to have the Hawk logo with a red eye to make it look more intimidating, as well as a possible modification to the back portion of the logo. I was able to save this helmet from being tossed out when our interns cleaned out one of the storage areas. For whatever reason, whoever put the helmets together seemed to rush putting the decals on, so there’s a slight bubble to it. Still, plenty interesting (and ugly).” I showed the photos to one of my ESPN bosses, Kevin Jackson, who’s from Seattle, and he said, “This answers the age-old question: What would the Seahawks logo look like if it got drunk?”  2003 The two color combinations of uniforms for home and road games were used during preseason. When the regular season came, only the one color sets were used except for the 2 color road version that was used during week 4 and 7. No other uniform changes. (P-I) 2004 (9-7) NFC West Champions In Honor of Pat Tillman "40" helmet decal
worn for Week 2. This decal was worn by all 1,440 active players
to honor Pat Tillman, the first NFL player killed in combat since the
Vietnam War. (NFL)
 2 Color Home Uni's The regular season opened up in Jacksonville were the Seahawks wore the Blue tops and white bottoms for the time during the regular season (P-I) Futbol Americano "FÚTBOL
AMERICANO" helmet decal worn for one game by all
NFL teams in Week 4 to commemorate the first time regular-season game
played outside the United States (NFL)
 Super Bowls XL The Seahawks were the NFC Champions for the first time in franchise history and faced the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL. Stickers where added to the back of the helmets and patches were worn on the jerseys. (NFL)  SI Covers
29 years after Seattle was awarded an NFL franchise, a player was finally featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated. The first was December 19, 2005 with Shaun Alexander and than January 23, 2006 with Matt Hasselbeck. (SIV)   2006 (9-7) NFC West Champions No Changes 2007 (10-6) NFC West Champions C is for Captian The NFL instituted a
standardized "C" uniform patch for team captains. They also created a
new rule that the quarterback with a radio in his helmet must have a
green dot on the back of his helmet. Only one "dotted" helmet is
allowed on the field at the same time. (NFL)
 In Honor of Sean Taylor After
week 13, the Seahawks added a Black Circle 21 Sticker to their
helmets as a tribute for Washington Redskin Sean Talyor who was
murdered. They continued wearing the sticker throughout the rest of the
season and playoffs. (NFL)
 It's the Shoes
The
Wildcard Weekend had the Washington Redskins coming to Seattle and a
lot of players showed off some new sneakers by Nike that used the lime
green color like never before. There were a couple different styles and
some players even had matching shoelaces. These shoes were not worn the
next week during in Green Bay for the Divisional Playoff Game versus
the Packers. (NFL)
 2008 New NFL Shield and Dot An updated NFL Shield will be updated on everything including the Equipment Patch. Also, a new rule change is a Defense player will also be allowed to wear a headset on the feild similar to the quarterback. The green dot has the NFL logo and a lightning bolt added to it.  In Honor of Gene Upshaw
Before
the first regular season game the Seahawks, and all NFL teams, added a
Black Circle GU 63 patch to
their uniforms as a tribute to Hall of Famer and NFL Players
Association Head Gene Upshaw who passed away. The patch was only worn
for week one. The patch was gone week 2 and replaced by a helmet decal.
They will continue to
wear the helmet decal throughout the rest of the
season. (NFL)
  2009
New Green Alternate Jersey On April 1, 2009 M. Princip over at greenglare.com, with support from Paul Lucas at the UniWatchBlog reported the Seahawks will have there first alternate jersey in franchise history. Nation wide speculation and conversations was all over the interent, but it was believed to be an April Fools joke, but September 27, 2009 the Hawks bring out the green jerseys a darker blue pants at home vs. the Chicago Bears. There were green jerseys for sale in 2008, but the numbers were reversed from the ones on the field. During a regular press conference November 7, 2009, coach Jim Mora Jr. announce the green jerseys had been retired because "We didn't win in them." The article is HERE Breast Cancer Awareness October is breast cancer awareness month and the NFL decided to go pink with gloves, captians patches, wrist bands, shoes and helmet decals. The Seahawks wore them on the road game October 4th, but when they came home on the 11th, they were pinkless. They fixed their lack of pink and were wearing their support at home on the 18th.   Two Tone is back
Starting on the road in Minnesota on Nov. 22 and continuing to St. Louis (Nov. 29) and Houston (Dec. 13) the Seahawks brought back the two tone away uniforms not seen since 2003. Coach Mora announced he has the final say of the uniforms with players input, and he likes the two tone road uniforms more than the all white. Two Blue
The Seahawks come home after a month on the road and brought out a new combination. They had the regular blue tops, but added the new darker blue pants originally used with the green jersey. The Seahawks paid tribute to the Lakewood police officers who were targeted and murdered on 11/29/09. Head coach Jim Mora wore a Lakewood Police Department hat with the four officers' badge numbers on the side throughout the game. The navy blue pants might have also been worn as a way to honor of the Lakewood Police Officers. http://blog.seattlepi.com/football/archives/187400.asp Coach Mora also said, in a press conference, the players think the darker pants are more comfortable. That article is HERE. They again wore them vs. their expansion brothers the Bucs on 12-20-09.  Number 71 Retired On August 14, 2010, nine-time Pro Bowler Walter Jones announced his retirement and the Seahawks, for only the 3rd time in team history, retired the #71 jersey. Thanks to 'Big Walt' for his amazing 13 year career with the Seahawks.  Double Dot On September 12th, the Seahawks opened their season at home versus the 49ers. During the first half of the game Matt Hasselbeck had 2 "Green NFL Radio" stickers on his helmet. The oddly placed one located on the top of the helmet dissapeared at halftime.   Breast Cancer Awareness
The NFL continued their support for breast cancer awareness month by again wearing pink on gloves, captians patches, wrist bands, shoes and helmet decals similar to the 2009 games. The Hawks wore them for all of their October games. NFC West Champions The Seahawks became the first Division Champions with a losing record at 7-9, then became the first team to win a playoff game with a losing record against the World Champion Saints on Jan. 8th. 2011 9/11/2001-9/11/2011 In honor of those who lost their lives, the NFL recognized the attack of the United States 10 years after it occured by having every team in the NFL wear patch.   2012
Manufacture Change Uniforms will now be made by Nike league wide. On May 20, 2011 Seahawks President Peter McLoughlin stated on KJR Radio, “Certainly the logo is going to remain the same. When I say design change I mean you know you got a new manufacturer, in Nike, and they’re looking at all kinds of new technology, it’s really amazing all the kinds of stuff they can do. So we’re working with them to see what it’s all going to look like, and we’re really pumped up about it.”
** Indicates NFC Conference Champs 
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