Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger mornings. I'm Brian

Nemhouser. You can find me, all that we do on this show at HockBlogger on YouTube,

TikTok, Instagram, Apple, podcast, Spotify, pretty much everywhere. And it is a special week.

It is a special week. We don't get these weeks very often where the Seahawks are hosting a divisional round playoff game. Not only that, but they're doing it against rival San Francisco 49ers. And to kick off this week, there's nobody. I would rather talk to about this game and about life in general than

Matt Hasselback who joins us. Matt, how are you doing on this fine Tuesday? I'm doing great. You know, I've noticed you're a little bit more onry about this matchup. You know, I don't know if there's like, you're doing that like Ben Johnson, Matt Lafleur thing where like, you know, you're normally like a really nice guy.

I'm sure Ben Johnson's a really nice guy.

And he's up there and he's like, I hate this team. You know, Matt Lafleur, I don't like him. You know, like whatever it is, like leaning into the rivalry. And like, I don't know if that's what you're doing or if it's like really, really genuine, but it's awesome. It's pretty cool. It's bringing me back to the, uh, the T.O. Sharpie days, you know,

where like there was this. really, really genuine, but it's awesome. It's pretty cool. It's bringing me back to the,

the T.O. Sharpie days, you know, where, like, there was this big, big thing with him and Sean

Springs, and he grabbed the Sharpie from the luxury suite and then signed the football, and it was

just like, oh, this is so disrespectful and blah, blah, blah. Well, it turns out, like, the guy he got the Sharpie from and signed the football for was, like, both of their, like, financial advisors, like, they shared. And they, like, don't hate each other. And it just, but it just added to this, like, excitement of the rivalry because the NFC West, you know, really wasn't a thing until, I think, 02 then, and then it was a thing. And then geographically, it is a great rivalry. And then, you know, between the Rams, the Seahawks, the Niners, you know, even the Cardinals a little bit. You know, it's cool. So I don't know. I kind of want to hear the real scoop or not, you know, you can keep it a secret, but you haven't been you when it comes to that, like a little bit more trash talking than I've. Yeah. There we go right there. Is that telling you anything? That is a great t-shirt. That is a great t-shirt. Simplyseattle.com. Code Hawkblogger 15, get you 15% off.

Because you know what, Matt, it is 100% genuine.

I am the things you said.

I'm generally very nice.

I try to lead a kind life, generous life.

I honestly do.

It's like a, it's values, principles.

But when you've dealt with year after year of just the absolute like bottom

dwelling of this 49er fan base, I'm telling you, man.

And like most of it sounds so nice.

You don't sound so nice. Most of it's in good fun You don't sound so nice. You don't sound so nice.

Most of it's in good fun. I've got to, I mean, I worked in the Bay Area like for a lot. So I have a lot of friends that are already texting me. They're all 40. But I hate even that little part of them. Like I like them with people, but I hate that part of them. I'll tell you really quick. after the 2019 game, when the 49ers came in to Seattle,

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