Sporting Events
Seattle has been host to number of important sporting events, the NFL Pro Bowl in 1977, the MLB All-Star Game in 1979 and 2001, the 1974 NBA All-Star Game and 1987 NBA All-Star Game, The Goodwill Games in 1990 and the NCAA Final Four in 1984, 1989 and 1995.
In 1998, the Seattle City council failed to pass a resolution that would have allowed Seattle to be considered for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The Seattle Marathon has taken place annually since 1970.
In football (soccer), the "All Nations Cup" is held every year.
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Famous quotes containing the words sporting and/or events:
“The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,—to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)