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The Seattle Seahawks, a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington are currently the members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). They are currently the only team in the NFL that has played in both the American Football Conference (AFC) and NFC Championship games. They played in the American Conference until 2002, when, with league realignment, they were returned to the National Football Conference.

The Seahawks shutout the San Francisco 49ers 34-0 on September 26, 2004 which marked the end of the 49er's league record 27 year streak without a shutout. During the 2005 off season, the Seahawks worked towards improving areas that led to their downfall in 2004. The Seahawks got off to a rocky start on their 2005 (30th Anniversary) campaign but it ended their first Super Bowl appearance. They lost their first game of the season on the road against the Jacksonville Jaguars 26-14. In Week 2, the Seahawks won their home-opener against the same team that they beat on the last game of the 2004 regular season, the Atlanta Falcons (21-18). When the St. Louis Rams lost on December 4, 2005, the Seahawks clinched their second straight NFC West title after playing only 11 games.

On December 5, 2005, the Seahawks shut out the Philadelphia Eagles 42-0 with three defensive touchdowns to tie the largest margin of victory mark in Monday Night Football history and set the mark for the greatest margin of victory in an MNF shutout. On December 11, 2005, the week after their Monday night rout of the Eagles, the Seahawks defeated the San Francisco 49ers 41-3, making their margin of victory for the two-week period 83 points and marked for the first time in team history that the Seahawks had recorded three forty point or better games in a season. On Christmas Eve, the Seahawks beat the Colts 28-13 setting the franchise record for the most wins in one season with 13. The victory also clinched the top seed in the NFC playoffs for the Seahawks assuring them of a home playoff game during the weekend of January 14-15, 2006 against the lowest remaining NFC seed.

Seven Seahawks players were selected for the 2006 Pro Bowl, tying a franchise record set in 1984. At the end of the regular season, the Seahawks' use of the 12th man was challenged by Texas A&M University. The dispute was settled out of court on May 8, 2006 with an agreement that the Seahawks be permitted to continue use of the slogan with acknowledgement to Texas A&M.On January 22, 2006, the team clinched its first Super Bowl berth in franchise history as they beat the Carolina Panthers 34-14.Seattle fell short in its bid for its first NFL title, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers at Super Bowl XL in Detroit, Michigan on February 5, 2006 by a score of 21-10.