T.J. Houshmandzadeh - The Ultimate Pain Reliever

Matt Hasselbeck's back injury kept him on the bench the majority of the Seahawks' nauseating 2008 season. Pain pills didn't cure the pain. Physical therapy fell short. Rest and relaxation spawned no relief. But what happened Monday has most likely got him rolling out of bed, looking at his wife and proclaiming "It must be a miracle, the pain has gone away!"

When the news broke Monday that free agent prize T.J. Houshmandzadeh had agreed to sign with the Seahawks, the elevators at the Space Needle momentarily stopped moving, as if to mechanically exclaim to each other "OMG WTF?!" For a city that has suffered seemingly endless disappointments in the past 12 months, things sure seem to be on the upswing. Houshmandzadeh, teaming up with current Seahawk Deion Branch, gives the Seahawks a Pro Bowl caliber wide receiver on each side of the field at all times. That, coupled with rising star John Carlson (55 catches, 5 TD in his rookie year) at tight end, has Seahawks fans wishing it were September 3rd.

As for Hasselbeck, he was just stopped by police after they had recieved complaints that Hasselbeck was sprinting through the streets of Bellevue, shouting threats about "the shotgun" and "unleashing the canon".