The sun is shining today in the Emerald City, figuratively speaking. As a Seattle native and sports fan, I can attest that fall is usually a depressing season. Seahawks fans have shared the frustrations of NFL fans here in New Orleans. The only difference is that in Seattle, we have two other teams that let us down each year. Our city hasn’t seen a championship since the 1979 Supersonics. The Mariners tied the all-time wins record in 2001, only to be beaten by the detestable New York Yankees on their way to the World Series. I was in diapers the last time our football team grabbed a playoff win.

This year, however, the Seahawks are making Seattle proud. Division Champions, Conference Champions and soon to be NFL Champions. The team my friends and I affectionately call the “Seachickens” won every home game of the regular season, locking up their division in Week 13 and securing home field advantage the following Saturday. Rain fell for the 27th consecutive day in Seattle on the Saturday the Hawks ended their playoff victory drought. The next day the rain stopped.

Coincidence? I think not.

I’m no NFL analyst, so I’ll leave the predictions for Sunday’s game to the experts. With that said, the Steelers are going down. Not because Seattle is the better team, although they are. Not because the Steelers fluked their way to the Super Bowl, although they did. But because Steelers fans as a whole don’t deserve the win. If you’re from Pittsburgh, you’re not to blame. It’s all the Steelers fans outside of Pittsburgh that drop the proverbial turd in the punchbowl. The Steelers are the team for people who don’t have a team or don’t like their home team. The Yankees of the NFL. Rooting for the Steelers is as cool this year as wearing those Von Dutch hats was last year. Like the hats, the fad will fade.

Come Sunday, when Seattle plays the Steelers in a city almost as ugly as Pittsburgh, the Hawks will devour a Roethlisburger and take The Bus to the junkyard.

Kyle Daly is a communications and pre-law senior from Seattle.