I know they were moved because of Houston getting a team, but did they volunteer to move or did the NFL randomly select Seattle to leave the AFC? How did that work, I can't remember.

As a Seahawks fan, I just thought it was because we just got damn tired of getting our butts handed to us every single season by Denver, San Diego, Kansas City and the Raiders..........

This Arizona, Rams, SF thing does seem to be working out better for us, I must say!

(If you have to play part of the season without your RB and QB, I really don't think the AFC West is where you want to be...)

"In 2002, the Seahawks were returned to the NFC West as part of an NFL realignment plan that gave each conference four balanced divisions of four teams each. This realignment restored the AFC West to its initial post-merger roster of original AFL teams Denver, San Diego, Kansas City and Oakland."

I guess they had to, it was part of making everything right in the NFL.

well they added 1 div. to each conference,and moved a few teams around. the only team to move to a different conference was the Seahawks.........and i would say NFL board made all the arrangements on that decision...........

The Seahawks are the only NFL team to switch conferences twice in the post-merger era. The franchise began play in 1976 in the NFC West division but switched conferences with the Buccaneers after one season and joined the AFC West. This realignment was dictated by the league as part of the 1976 expansion plan, so that both expansion teams could play each other twice and every other NFL franchise once during their first two seasons.

afc kicked them out

that was a long time ago why u just now asking everybody forgot.

what is more important is asking how the ST LOUIS rams are in the nfc WEST

I think they volunteered to move to the NFC.

it was part of realignment due to exapnsion in the nfl and to balance things out in each division which has worked out good for seattle