{"id":187514,"date":"2025-09-28T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/187514\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:17:09","slug":"seahawks-may-have-games-impacted-by-mariners-playoff-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/187514\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks may have games impacted by Mariners&#8217; playoff run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, Seattle! The Mariners are in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Bad news, Seahawks?<\/p>\n<p>Via Adam Schefter of ESPN.com, the local baseball team\u2019s postseason appearance <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46399836\/mariners-playoff-games-alter-seahawks-kickoff-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">could impact<\/a> a pair of the football team\u2019s home games.<\/p>\n<p>The next two Seahawks\u2019 home games \u2014 Week 5 against the Buccaneers and Week 7 against the Texans on Monday Night Football \u2014 land on days when the Mariners could be hosting games.<\/p>\n<p>This apparently could impact the starting time of both Seahawks games. Our take is simple: Why should it? <\/p>\n<p>Hasn\u2019t football conclusively seized the title of America\u2019s pastime? At this point, the MLB and the Mariners should be expected to work around the NFL and the Seahawks, not vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a basic matter of rock, paper, scissors. The interest in and viewership of the football game will be much greater than the interest in an viewership of the baseball game. <\/p>\n<p>Thus, the NFL\u2019s position should be simple and clear as to potential conflicts with baseball games: \u201cLooks like you have a problem. Plan accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good news, Seattle! The Mariners are in the playoffs. Bad news, Seahawks? Via Adam Schefter of ESPN.com, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-187514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}