Behold the Seattle Seahawks’ “12th Man Room of Silence”.
In this exclusive video, FOX Sports 1 invited members from a Seattle Youth Football League to watch the NFC Championship between their hometown Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers and proposed a challenge: If they could stay completely silent for the entire game — no talking, no cheering — they could win a cash prize for new equipment and improvements to their facilities.
The Seattle Seahawks recently paid Texas A&M University $5,000 for exclusive use of the 12th man at Qwest Field in Seattle. The Aggies had been using that term since 1921.
We’re just a week and change away now from the Super Bowl, where the Seattle Seahawks will take on the Denver Broncos. Fox Sports will have the broadcast; the Seattle Seahawks are the underdogs.
Paul M. Banks is the owner of The Sports Bank.net, an affiliate of Fox Sports. An MBA and Fulbright scholar in media studies, he’s also an analyst for multiple news talk radio stations across the country; with regular weekly segments on NBC and Fox Sports Radio. President Barack Obama follows him on Twitter (@paulmbanks)