There are, yes, legions of similar conversations about defensive football taking place all over the Pacific Northwest. Anyone who lives in the greater Seattle area or pays even cursory attention to the city’s beloved Seahawks cannot escape any conversation about the team’s current elite defense that does not also include a comparison to the best D in franchise history.
Members of that defense—the Legion of Boom—have taken notice. But not in the obvious, inexact, fruitless exercise of comparing two defenses that dominated a decade apart for the Seahawks. Richard Sherman was on the phone this week. And, before elaborating on what does resonate for him and other Boomers, he stopped the common comparisons immediately.
