Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Hock Blogger Mornings.

I am Brian Mouser.

You can find me pretty much anywhere you get your content, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,

at HockBlogger.

And welcome home to the thousands and thousands of Seahawks fans that are making their trips back to

wherever they came from to go see this game in Tennessee. I just landed here like a little less than

an hour ago in Seattle and made my way right back here and got ready for the show. what a great trip to nashville it was um and uh fin

you know has been locked in his his kennel till i got here so he's he's joining for the show

uh he'd like to say hello to everybody um for a little bit at least um it was a great experience. I'll talk more about the

game here in a second, a couple things that stood out to me. I want to show a couple plays from that

game. Unfortunately, I'll only be able to do still images because otherwise we'll get dinged by the

NFL. But a couple things relative to Sam Donald's performance, I wanted to kind of show and talk

about with you guys. We got some news about the upcoming game against the Vikings. We'll talk about

that as well. But before we get into all that, I mean, I just, you know, part of this show is not

just the nuts and bolts of Cioxx and football, but also the experience of, you know,

traveling around and, you know, witnessing what's going on with the team and with the fan base.

And there was no hesitation from us that Nashville was going to be the place that all the folks

from Real Hawk Talk were going to circle on their calendars to get to and see the game this season. It was a lot of

fun. Certainly not a unique decision to make. Same way New Orleans is kind of a circle-the-date

kind of trip and Green Bay is one of those. There's a few places that kind of hit that that bar and um you know like if you've

never been to national before it's it's i think the thing that sets it apart is how much music

there is everywhere 24 hours a day whether it's a hotel lobby, a coffee shop, a bar, a restaurant, there is somebody

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