The Seattle Seahawks have a mascot named Blitz, who is a popular figure among fans. Blitz is an anthropomorphic Seahawk, with blue feathers, a beak, and a big smile on his face. He is known for his energetic and friendly personality, always ready to interact with fans and cheer on the team. Blitz can often be seen at Seahawks home games, roaming the sidelines and engaging with spectators. He loves to dance, high-five fans, and pose for photos. Children especially enjoy meeting Blitz, as he brings an extra level of excitement and fun to the game day experience.
Seattle Ambassador: Blitz the Seahawk
Children especially enjoy meeting Blitz, as he brings an extra level of excitement and fun to the game day experience. Beyond home games, Blitz is also active in the community, making appearances at various events and charity functions. He visits hospitals to uplift patients' spirits, attends school events to promote education and positive values, and participates in fundraisers to support local causes.
Blitz, the energetic mascot of the Seattle Seahawks football team, spills the inside scoop on his favorite team moments, what he loves about the city, and what he’s looking forward to this season.
By Nils Gollersrud
Every Friday from mid-August through December, the city is awash in blue as fans don their Seattle Seahawks gear to support Seattle’s beloved football team. During home games, fans pack into open-air Lumen Field (*800 Occidental Ave), where they can watch the start-studded team battle it out on their home turf. And these all-stars don’t disappoint: The Seahawks were the NFL Super Bowl champions in 2014 and have won 10 division titles and three conference championships.
Meanwhile, Seahawks fans have racked up their own acclaim, earning the nickname “The 12th Man” or simply the “12s” as a nod to their support of the 11 active players on the field and setting the Guinness World Record for loudest crowd roar twice during the 2013–14 season. Spearheading this spirited charge is Blitz the Seahawk, the blue-and-green feathered mascot who hypes up the crowd, leading fans in thunderous cheers. In between preparations for the upcoming season, Blitz shared his favorite stadium food, fondest memories, and tips to keep team spirit up throughout the season.
What is your favorite stadium snack?
Blitz the Seahawk: I’m a big fan of the garlic fries but I can’t have them before a game. They make me smell bad.
Visit Seattle Recommends: Sample Seattle without leaving the stadium at concession booths by local favorites, like Beecher’s Mac and Cheese (for artisan sandwiches and decadently good mac) in section 305 and 335, Ivar’s (chowder, fish ‘n’ chips, and some Blitz-approved garlic fries) in section 118 and 133, and Elysian Brewing (craft brews, plus Bavarian-style meats) in section 309.
Blitz takes a touchdown selfie of the Seahawks Courtesy Seattle Seahawks
It must get pretty cold during the fall and winter months. How do you stay warm during the games?
Blitz the Seahawk: I keep warm by running around and keeping up with all the action in the stadium!
Visit Seattle Recommends: Stay warm in the stands with Seahawks jerseys, scarves, sweatshirts, and more from Seattle Team Shop (1029 Occidental Ave S), or grab gear in the stadium at The Pro Shop at Lumen Field.
Seahawks fans are notoriously animated, having broken a 137-decibel world record for their loud cheers. How can fans keep their team spirit up all season long?
Blitz the Seahawk: We have to go 1-0 every week! Every week is a new week and you have to bring your best!
Visit Seattle Recommends: On Fridays, wear Seahawks apparel and jump start your excitement with other fans at favorite pre-game watering holes like Triangle Pub (553 First Ave S) for beer on tap and Fuel (164 S Washington St) for sipping al fresco.
What was the most memorable moment from last season?
Blitz the Seahawk: Too many moments to pick just one. But my favorite was getting tackled by the special team’s players in the end zone…many times.
Visit Seattle Recommends: Make your own memories by adding nearby attractions to your itinerary for all-day fun. Play retro gaming systems at neighboring Seattle Pinball Museum (*508 Maynard Ave S) or Living Computers: Museum + Lab (*2245 First Ave S) before settling into the stadium for kick off.
Lumen Field against the city skyline Rudy Willingham
When you are on the road, what do you miss most about Seattle?
Blitz the Seahawk: I miss the 69,000 screaming fans at Lumen Field! But I love the 12s that travel on the road and make it feel like we’re back at home (or at least sound like home!).
Visit Seattle Recommends: Quality Athletics (*121 S King St), The Hawks Nest (1028 First Ave S), and Henry’s Tavern (1518 First Ave S), are great restaurants and bars to catch the game in Seattle when the Seahawks are on the road. Grab a beer or a burger and fries and get ready to cheer!
What are you most looking forward to this season?
Blitz the Seahawk: Every game! Loud 12s! And winning!
Visit Seattle Recommends: Catch a game at Lumen Field and see Blitz in action during the Seahawks season, running Aug 8 – Dec 29.
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Meet Seahawks mascot Blitz
Ryan Asdourian can walk down the halls of his office building on Microsoft’s Redmond campus and nary a head will turn.
Put him in his Sunday outfit, though, and heads pop out of offices, smartphone cameras appear and one person after another stops to greet him, especially in these days of Seahawks fever.
Such is the double life of Asdourian, 32, a Microsoft employee who is also the man inside the costume of “Blitz,” the Seattle Seahawks mascot.
Most days of the year, Asdourian, a 10-year Microsoft veteran, works on getting developers to create apps for the Windows platform. He’s also become a go-to guy for product demos and presentations at company events, most recently at Microsoft’s annual shareholders meeting last November.
On game-day Sundays and for charity events, Asdourian dons the blue fuzzy-headed, big-beaked Blitz costume, which adds muscular padding and 3 inches to his already 6-foot-tall frame. His weekday presentation patter goes silent while his physical antics grow bolder and bigger.
“When I’m in the costume, there is a character for Blitz,” Asdourian said in an interview this week at his Microsoft office. “You transform.”
Blitz, he said, “is the Seahawks’ biggest fan. He pumps up the crowd, loves kids, loves to be goofy, has a lot of fun. You’re excited and you’re representative of the team, so you end up walking a little bit differently, carrying that excitement with you.”
Asdourian, who has been Blitz since 2006, was revealed to the public as the man behind the mask several years ago when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned it while both men were presenting at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Since then, Asdourian’s personal life has crossed over with his Blitz persona a bit more as he, with the Seahawks’ support, started Team Blitz to raise money for research and education on multiple sclerosis. Asdourian was diagnosed with MS in 2008.
And he was recently featured on a Microsoft website that highlights interesting employees and projects.
But, clearly, not all employees had heard of Asdourian’s double life.
Earlier this week, as Asdourian strode through the lobby of his Microsoft office building in full Blitz gear on his way to a photo shoot, a co-worker excitedly stopped him, hoping for a photograph.
“We have a huge party this weekend,” Mike Morton, a senior program manager with Visual Studio, told Blitz as they posed for the photo. “This is going to be the bomb!”
Morton later expressed surprise when his manager told him Blitz was actually a Microsoft employee. He had assumed the mascot was a member of the Seahawks back-office staff.
“I thought: `Dude! That’s totally cool!’?” said Morton, who plans to print copies of the photo and hang them all over his house this weekend.
Began as a Gator
Asdourian grew up watching football with his family in Florida. But it wasn’t until he got to the University of Florida, where his roommate was a cheerleader, that Asdourian gave any thought to being a mascot.
“It looks like a lot of fun,” he remembers thinking.
He auditioned and thus began four years (in rotation with a few other students) as the University of Florida’s Albert E. Gator.
His Microsoft connection began with internships at the company while he was studying for a computer-science degree. He returned to Microsoft after graduation, starting as a software test engineer for Office.
As he worked in various positions and divisions within the company, including as a senior product manager for Windows and in marketing, he gained a reputation as a good showman.
He has since presented at CES, shareholders meetings, and at various events when Windows 8 launched.
“I love the excitement of any crowd, whether at the Seahawks stadium or at our shareholders meeting,” he said.
Experience, exuberance
Asdourian landed the Blitz job after contacting the Seahawks about a year after arriving in Seattle.
His predecessor had decided to pursue other opportunities, said Suzanne Lavender, spokeswoman for the Seahawks.
“The mascot community is relatively small, so word had gotten out that we were interviewing,” Lavender said.
Asdourian interviewed out of costume and auditioned in costume.
“He had experience and he had an exuberance,” Lavender said of why the team chose Asdourian. “He’s really helped define the character _ very welcoming, exuberant, fun-loving.”
Asdourian has a certain routine he likes to follow before each game.
“I walk around the field at least once before getting into costume to get the excitement,” he said. “I totally feed off the fans’ energy. The more excited they get, the more excited I get, which excites them. We feed off each other.”
And definitely during the playoffs, he said, “you feel a lot of energy.”
In general, Asdourian keeps quiet about his Blitz gig.
When he met his future wife, Lucy, for instance, it was their mutual friends who told her he was Blitz.
“When they told her that, she said: `No, you’re not. They’re lying,’?” Asdourian recalls.
One arena in which he’s very public about being Blitz is in fundraising for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Asdourian sits on the board of the Greater Northwest chapter of the society.
MS is a disease in which the body’s immune system attacks the central nervous system. There is no cure and symptoms can range from numbness in the limbs to loss of balance to paralysis or vision loss.
After Asdourian was diagnosed with the disease about five years ago, he formed Team Blitz, raising money for the society through its annual MS Walk and a pub crawl that he hosts.
In the past four years the team has raised a total of $300,000, and Asdourian has just started his fifth year of fundraising.
Raising the MS flag
The NFL’s 26 mascots, for whom Asdourian created a Listserv, are all good friends, he says. Three years ago, 11 of them came to support Asdourian in the MS Walk. This year, Asdourian is hoping to get all 26 in Seattle for the walk on April 13.
He is also organizing a fifth annual pub crawl fundraiser to take place April 12 in Belltown.
Last year’s pub crawl attracted 450 people and raised $23,000.
Asdourian says that while he has some symptoms, “I feel quite lucky and blessed that nothing has really affected either one of my jobs.”
It’s absolutely exciting to be a part of this extraordinary Seahawks season, Asdourian said.
But he treasures just as much “these magical moments when, whether it’s meeting kids or meeting members of our military or being on the field during a game, hearing the noise of the crowd, any and all of those things really make it the most exciting thing in the world.”
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Blitz's popularity extends beyond just Seahawks fans. He has been recognized as one of the best mascots in the NFL, winning awards for his exceptional performance and connection with the community. He has also made appearances at national events and been featured in commercials and promotional campaigns. In addition to being a symbol of team spirit and fan engagement, Blitz serves as a source of inspiration for many. His enthusiasm and dedication embody the spirit of the Seattle Seahawks, a team known for their passion and resilience on the field. Blitz represents the positive qualities associated with the Seahawks, fostering a sense of unity and support for the team and community as a whole..
Reviews for "Getting to Know the Person Inside the Mascot: An Interview with Blitz's Alter Ego"
1. John D. - 2/5 - I was not impressed with the Seahawks mascot Blitz. The costume seemed outdated and poorly designed. It lacked the charm and energy that I have come to expect from mascots. Additionally, Blitz's interactions with fans felt forced and awkward. Overall, I found the experience underwhelming and would not recommend it to others.
2. Sarah F. - 1/5 - As a lifelong Seahawks fan, I was extremely disappointed with the mascot Blitz. The character's appearance was unappealing and did not capture the spirit of the team. I found Blitz's antics to be more annoying than entertaining, and it felt like a distraction from the game itself. I would prefer a more engaging and charismatic mascot to represent the Seahawks.
3. Michael H. - 2/5 - I found the Seahawks mascot Blitz to be uninspiring. The costume was unimpressive and lacked attention to detail. The character's presence during games seemed lackluster and did not add any excitement to the atmosphere. Overall, I wasn't impressed with Blitz and felt the team could have invested in a more engaging mascot to entertain the fans.
4. Emily R. - 2/5 - I was really excited to see the Seahawks mascot Blitz in action, but it left me feeling underwhelmed. The character lacked the enthusiasm and energy that I expect from a mascot. The interactions with fans were limited and felt forced. Blitz's performance during the games felt lackluster and did not enhance the overall experience. I believe the Seahawks could do better in selecting a more captivating and charismatic mascot.