By Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren / Published January 29, 2014
EVERETT, WA: The Seattle Seahawks’ home base of Century Link Field is known for being loud. So loud, in fact, that the team and its 12th-man fans set a world record for loudest outdoor stadium at 136.6 decibels earlier this season, nearly equal to a Boeing 747 taking off.
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Today, however, an actual Boeing 747 joined the 12th man Seahawks Super Bowl fever here in the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday as the company is preparing to reveal a full-fledged 747-8 freighter in team colors. The airplane was painted with a giant 12 on the tail, a nod to the 12th man, along with the team seahawk logo and “Go Hawks!” on the body. The Wall Street Journal’s Jon Ostrower tweeted “Boeing is using a whitetail (former Atlas Air) 747-8F registered N770BA for the Seahawks billboard”.
The airplane will be flying around the Puget Sound region starting tomorrow, though Boeing declined to say where or exactly when.
Boeing’s 747 is not the first airplane to receive special Superbowl treatment. Alaska announced it would paint a Boeing 737-900 in honor of the team’s quarterback, Russell Wilson, earlier this week. The airplane will then run a special charter tailgate flight from Seattle to New Jersey for the big game. The carrier picked up Wilson as its “Chief Football Officer” just prior to the team’s playoff berth late last year, and has been utilizing him heavily in promotional material ever since.
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