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Sometimes, a story is simply too good to be true. You enjoy the warm feeling it gives you for as long as you can, consuming all media surrounding it, but inevitably the narrative always flips. You’ve seen it all before: the homegrown rookie doesn’t pan out with their beloved team, the perfect season gets dashed in the final game, a legendary player’s return turns sour, and so on. But sometimes, on those impossibly rare occasions, the perfect story is just that-- perfect . Xavi left his boyhood club of Barcelona on top of the footballing world, winning a historic treble to effectively cap off his career as one of the greatest pure midfielders the game has ever seen and ever will see. Since then, though, his beloved club has been struggling to get back to the mountaintop without him. Image From: Getty Images Xavi left to finish out his playing career in Qatar after the 2015 Champions League final, and to date Barcelona have not raised

It’s hard to put into words just how much this past decade of Seahawks football has meant to their fans as well as to the city of Seattle as a whole. It’s been an unimaginable prize for the fans who toughed it out through decades of mediocrity and for the newer sports fans alike, but more than that, Seahawks football is a pervasive and inescapable part of Seattle culture. Image Source You can see ‘12’ flags outside houses, classrooms, and businesses anywhere in the state. Likely a majority of the greater Seattle area wears Seahawks gear or team colors every ‘Blue Friday’ before a game. The games themselves are perhaps the most powerful community bonding event in the Pacific Northwest. Even for those who don’t follow football, it’s a welcome excitement whenever the weekend rolls around. For these reasons, it’s equally hard to put into words how heartbreaking Tuesday, March 9 was to the team’s faithful. In the darkest day in Seahawks history since that play , two of the last remnants of