Boeing's new Seahawks-themed 747-8 Freighter flies took a short 13-minute flight from Paine Field to Boeing before . Photo courtesy of Boeing.
Boeing’s new Seahawks-themed 747-8 Freighter flies in Seattle . Photo courtesy of Boeing.

Does Seattle have Super Bowl fever? You bet it does, and that pride was shown in the top stories on GeekWire in January as four of the top five posts were in some way connected to the Seahawks.

geekwirehawksThe city, including the thriving tech community, is going nuts over the team.

We’ve compared Seattle and Denver in “The Startup Bowl,” and even drew comparisons between Marshawn Lynch and Seattle’s tech community, saying we could use a small dose of Richard Sherman. Some of you may have noticed a slight color change to GeekWire this past week as well. :)

Yep, it’s time to let it roll Seattle! Here are the top stories for January.

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Seahawks supporters at Microsoft

Boeing’s new Seahawks-themed 747 takes first flight in 12 pattern to salute Seattle fans (8,800 Facebook likes, 23 comments)

CBS, NBC live streaming NFL playoffs for free, but Fox makes things tougher for Seahawks fans (60 Facebook lies, 28 comments)

Supporting the Seahawks: Microsoft trumps Amazon for 12th Man passion (12,000 Facebook likes, 23 comments)

Photos: Boeing joins 12th Man fever with custom-designed Seahawks 747 Freighter (5,100 Facebook likes, 19 comments)

 

The photo that got T-Mobile CEO John Legere booted from the AT&T party
The photo that got T-Mobile CEO John Legere booted from the AT&T party

T-Mobile CEO crashes AT&T’s CES party, gets escorted out (1,100 Facebook likes, 16 comments)

Surprise: Amazon tests physical retail with ‘Kindle Kiosk’ vending machines (350 Facebook likes, 12 comments)

Revealed: Guess what’s in this gigantic Amazon shipping box on back of a flatbed truck? (325 Facebook likes, 6 comments)

Photos: A look inside Twitter’s new Seattle engineering office (411 Facebook likes, 6 comments)

AT&T to offer $200 credit to T-Mobile switchers, in preemptive jab at rival (96 Facebook likes, 15 comments)

Free games for Xbox Live Gold members: Sleeping Dogs, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (14 Facebook likes, 0 comments)

New Year’s Tech Resolution #3: Learn to code (1,800 Facebook likes, 4 comments)

Full Text: T-Mobile CEO John Legere’s expletive-laced rant against Verizon, Sprint, AT&T (54 Facebook likes, 11 comments)

Hide that MacBook! Bill Gates talks tech and global health with Jimmy Fallon (53 Facebook likes, 3 comments)


Thanks to everyone for reading and #GoHawks!!

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