SEATTLE — The Seahawks’ Super Bowl celebration at Lumen Field on Wednesday morning began with a toast and included a boast.

The roughly 35-minute program of speeches at Lumen Field kicked off the parade through Seattle honoring the team’s 29-13 win in the Super Bowl on Sunday over the New England Patriots included some R-rated moments that won’t be quickly forgotten.

Seahawks play-by-play man Steve Raible — whose roots with the team span all 50 years the franchise has existed dating to his days as player on the first team in 1976 — served as the emcee.

Raible kicked things off noting that the Seahawks won the Lombardi Trophy “in the stadium and on the field and out of the locker room” of one of their bitterest rivals — the San Francisco 49ers.

“Karma, as they say is [short pause for effect] a very funny thing,” Raible said.

Seahawks general manager John Schneider really got the party going with a four-minute talk in which he held up a red solo cup and he was “going to treat this like a wedding a give a little toast,” as he sent shout outs to fans, staffers, players and others.

Schneider’s talk included a poignant moment when he referred to the team as having angels watching over the them this season because of the loss of his father William, in October, as well as similar losses by players such as linebacker Ernest Jones IV, quarterback Drew Lock, left tackle Charles Cross and receiver Jake Bobo.

“We’ve lost only one game since my father passed with those angels (watching over the team),” Schneider said. “We know that (former owner) Paul Allen (who died in 2018) has watched over us.”

Schneider shouted out running back Kenneth Walker III, the Super Bowl MVP who can be an unrestricted free agent next month, joking that, “He tried negotiating with me five minutes ago. It was really weird!”

Coach Mike Macdonald, who carried the Lombardi Trophy into the stadium to great applause from some of the estimated 50,000 at Lumen Field, followed. After Raible noted that Macdonald should have been the NFL’s Coach of the Year, Macdonald — still holding the Lombardi Trophy — said, “I think I’ll take this trophy instead.”

Macdonald referenced that it was barely more than 24 months ago that he was hired as the team’s coach to replace Pete Carroll following the 2023 season.

“We set on this course two years ago, (team chair) Jody (Allen) and I sitting in a hotel meeting room in Baltimore,” Macdonald said. “This is the vision that we had for the Seahawks. We talk about 12 as One, look at all the 12s in this stadium right here. See how powerful this is with this football team? I’ve got goose bumps just thinking about it. But this is why we do what we do to bring people together.”

The player speeches began with quarterback Sam Darnold.

Darnold promised to keep it “short and sweet.” But following Raible’s introduction noting how Darnold had quieted the doubters, Darnold said: “A lot of people didn’t believe in me, but it didn’t matter because you believed in me.”

Tight end AJ Barner repeating that the team “did not care” in 2025, reprising the famous quote of Macdonald following the NFC title game win over the Los Angeles Rams.

“First, we did not care!” said Barner, wearing what appeared to be a fur jacket.

“Second, we still don’t care!”

Others followed.

Receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba said, “We had one goal and that was to bring this home to the best fans in the world and that’s what we did.”

Defensive tackle Jarran Reed led the fans in a “two dawgs” bark chant.

Defensive tackle Leonard Williams followed, wearing a championship belt commemorating the Super Bowl title and making a promise.

“We not done,” Williams said. “We coming back next year!”

It was as comment that echoed Carroll’s famous “we’re just getting warmed up, if you know what I mean” comment in a similar ceremony at Lumen following the Seahawks’ first Super Bowl title in 2013.

That didn’t happen, but Williams seemed to be vowing that he and his teammates will have it in them to make good on his words, this time shouting “I’m not [expletive] leaving!”

Then came Jones, serving as something of the headliner with the speech that figures to serve as the most memorable moment of the event

While wearing a custom T-shirt featuring Darnold’s face and a well-placed middle finger, Jones gave a highly, uh, energetic speech reprising his defense of Darnold following the loss to the Rams in November.

“We got the best team in the world and quite frankly if you got anything to say for my defense, if you got anything to say for my quarterback, you got anything to say about our O-line, you got anything to say about the city of Seattle, I got two words for you,” Jones said, then pausing for effect. “… (expletive) you!”

As Macdonald noted Monday, after that game and Jones’ quote, the Seahawks never lost another game, ripping off 10 consecutive wins capped by the Super Bowl.

Receiver Cooper Kupp, a Yakima native and Eastern Washington University alum, took the mic for the last speech of the day and gave an appropriate homage to his home state, saying, “Hey Washington, how about them Apples, huh?”

Then as Queen’s “We Are The Champions” blared over the speakers at Lumen Field, coaches, team officials, players and even some legends, which included the likes of former quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, Jim Zorn and 2013 Super Bowl champ winner Cliff Avril, loaded into 20 trucks and five others vehicles for the parade down Fourth Avenue.

It took a while to get everyone assembled and all the vehicles going. But no one seemed to mind as Lumen cleared out slowly, party music playing and kicking off a celebration that figured to last through the day, into the night and until everyone returns here again in the fall to raise another banner at Lumen Field.

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