It had been 35 years since Seattle won a championship in one of the four major professional-sports leagues, a streak that came to an end Sunday with the Seahawks' convincing 43-8 blowout of the Denver Broncos.
A day later, though, many around the Emerald City find themselves asking the same question -- "Now what?" For some of those, perhaps the biggest hope is that the momentum created by Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson and the Seahawks can carry over to the city's efforts to bring the NBA back to the Pacific Northwest.