"Hereafter, the team will be known as the Seattle Seahawks," said the late Lloyd Nordstrom, former team owner on June 18, 1975.

Nordstrom made the announcement, but the fans named the team the "Seahawks." The team held a contest. The winner would get two season tickets and bragging rights forever.

Before we were the Hawks, the team was known as Seattle Professional Football or, even worse, the Seattle No-Names.

To learn about the contest, we had to turn to the Seattle Public Library and microfilm, we went back 30 years to May 14, 1975 where we learned more than 20,000 people entered the contest.

The Seattle No-Names wanted the publics' help, because the franchise partners couldn't agree on a name.

The partners did agree that the name should be unlike any other, have a masculine ring to it -- sorry gals --and have a Northwest affiliation.

"Seahawks" fit.

A team was born and 15-year-old Brian Anderson was a name-the-team contest winner. "I guess you could say I'm one of the original fans," he said.

Anderson is now a sales executive at KOMO-TV. But he still remembers the day he struck football gold.

He was sitting around the kitchen table brain storming with his father and brother. "I don't remember which one of us came up with it first, but I think that when we came up with it we knew right then, that had just had to be the name," said Anderson.

150 other people also entered the Seahawks name. 20,365 entries total, 1,742 different names -- but "Seahawks" was, and is, the winner.

"We were so thrilled that they chose that name, we knew that was the name, it just had to be Seahawks," Anderson said.

And he's sure he's right about who'll be named Super Bowl Champ.

"I think it's our turn, we're due, we've earned it, the fans have earned it. I think it's our time, it's gonna happen."

Because there were 151 people who picked the name "Seahawks," not all of them got season tickets. The owners held a drawing and Brian's family was one of the lucky winners.

Some of the other names submitted: Ferrys, Drips, Trawlers, Zonkers, Big Foot Stompers and the Studs.

The franchise owners panicked when they read the first envelope which held the entry "Seattle Slugs."