The sporting events shouldn't overlap, but traffic could make things a real challenge.
Take your pick, it's going to be Friday Night Tight or Friday Night Fright for the Seattle sporting landscape. At one end of town, the Seattle Mariners will be playing for their postseason baseball lives at T-Mobile Park against the Detroit Tigers on Friday afternoon in the deciding Game 5 of the American League Division Series at T-Mobile Park.
First pitch is 1:40 p.m. And no sooner than that one ends, providing it doesn't get pushed into extra innings, the University of Washington football team will host Rutgers 5.5 miles away in its homecoming game at Husky Stadium, with kickoff scheduled for 6 p.m. on Friday night.Traffic could ugly out there, over and above the normal Friday night rush-hour horror show that unfolds. On Monday afternoon, Husky coach Jedd Fisch anticipated this logjam of humanity and wishfully called for the Mariners to sweep and wrap up their baseball series in Detroit to keep things somewhat sane for the sports fan on Friday.Seattle's baseball team lost 9-3 in Detroit on Wednesday to bring the series back to the Northwest. Fisch was hoping for a 70,000-plus sellout on Friday night at his lakefront stadium, but the Mariners stand to bite into that turnout some after averaging 47,000-plus for each of their previous postseason games. "I'm excited for a huge turnout," Fisch said in his weekly briefly to begin the week. "Every game we've played on the road since i've been here has been sold out. All the games last season. All the games this season. That's what Big Ten football is all about. It's about unbelievable crowds." Hoping for no programming overlap, FS1 will televise each of these Friday sporting events from Seattle to a national audience. Not sure what happens if the Mariners and Tigers go into extra innings, as they did in the first game of the series this past Saturday, and cut into the Husky game time. Either way, the city is bracing itself for roughly an eight-hour window of nonstop sports inside the city limits that will be shared nationally from the Emerald City. "Love a sellout," Fisch said. "That's kind of what the expectation has become in this conference. It's pretty cool when you go all the way across the country like we did this last week or you play more local, it seems like sellouts are the thing to do." In this case, with Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodriguez figuratively riding in one car on Interstate 5, and laying on their horn and trying to get Demond Williams Jr. and Denzel Boston in another vehicle to move out of their way, traveling anywhere in the city is going to be a real test on Friday.Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.
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