The Birth of Moses

Moses the Legend....

It is an interesting story as to how my name and alter ego of “Moses” came to be.

I remember when I was at Indiana State University and I decided to get my own computer to help out with my studying (yeah, right). I was tired of having to travel all the way to campus to write a paper and I felt a computer was a wise decision..

I bought a (hold your laughter) McINTOSH and I was set….

Of course, living in Family Housing (university off campus housing for married and/or older students), I also had free access to the school server. This allowed me to hookup to the Internet for the first time on a regular basis (without tying up the phone line).

It was a turbulent time to be a Seahawk fan and a good time to have a pulse on the Seattle media. Seahawk owner Ken Behring had threatened to pick up the team and plunk them right in the center of Los Angeles.

I began to surf the Internet for Seattle web sites. I checked for newspapers, television stations, and radio stations… I found one radio station that really caught my eye. The KJR radio site had several attractive items. One item was the audio of KJR personalities calling and pranking the offices that Behring set up in L.A. I often listened to them and laughed.

The other option that KJR had was a message board…It was here that the legend was born.

It was also here that I met perhaps my best Internet and Seahawk friend, Becky Selm. She and her husband would first come onto the message board as “Kansas fan”. I of course would be under the creative name of “Seahawk fan”.

The first time I found “Kansas fan” on the Internet, my first post was “what are Chief fans doing here?” I was quickly corrected that these were fans FROM Kansas, NOT fans OF Kansas.

We talked often, and it was my first real interaction with other Seahawk fans from around the country.

Then one fateful evening....

We were talking when someone came onto the message board as “GOD”. Just “GOD”. Well obviously, my first post to him (HIM?) was, “Well it’s about TIME you showed up. Have I got questions for YOU!”

Then, it hit me. If this person could be GOD, then I could be someone REALLY BIG, too! Then, I thought about who I should be. Jesus was out. I wanted NO PART of being this person’s son…Hmmmm……. I KNOW! HOW ABOUT MOSES?? 

I logged on as “MOSES”, and the legend was born….

The “MOSES PREDICTS” have been something that I have been doing since about ’97 or so. I would watch Chris Berman do his “Swami” thing on ESPN, and I thought, “Man, he NEVER does the Seahawk games!” So, I decided to create a need and fill it.

At first, I was sending them just to Becky Selm. She was my fellow Seahawk fan and we stuck together through thick and thin (mostly thin) with our team and I thought these messages would make her laugh. I would preface an “appearance” of Moses by fading into a trance, then coming back as the loud and knowledgeable prophet called Moses.

Unbeknownst to me, Becky had a web site of her own (Becky’s place). Not only did she HAVE the site, she was POSTING MY EMAILS on her very own message board.

I found out shortly after 9/11. She had gotten some replies about what Moses thought about the chances that Afghanistan had against the USA. Well, I had to reply.

I then noticed that Becky had been posting all of my emails. So why not post as Moses?

Thus, Moses became a full fledge Seahawk fan.

Birth of the Moses dinners....

The dinners have only been around since about 2002 or so. It was something I came up with when I was discussing what kind of food we all ate for each Seahawk game. I began to think about food associated with the names of our opponents each week. Soon, I was compiling a list.

Growing up and when I was REAL young  (3 or so) , I used to be a fan of (hold your laughter), HEE HAW! Each show, they would yell: “Hey Grandpa! What’s for dinner?” Grandpa would run off a list of food. So, I thought I would use that for my opening: “HEY MOSES!!!! WHAT’S FOR DINNER FOR GAME __________??”