Owen Schmitt News

Cincinnati receiver Chris Henry died on Thursday in Charlotte, N.C. after falling from the back of a pickup truck.

Justin Forsett swears this is a true story. When telling a stranger once that he was with the Seattle Seahawks, the person looked at the 5-foot-8 Forsett and indelicately asked: "Are you the equipment manager?" Actually, Forsett would be the shortest of the team's equipment managers, so the stranger's confusion is somewhat understandable.

The Seahawks' decision to name fullback Owen Schmitt inactive against Arizona reflects a couple of things for Seattle.

Let's recap the weekend: Seahawk fans got Schmitt-faced, the Patriots laid a 59-0 beat down in the snow and ASU won a football game.

A helmet-butting Seahawk is gaining a huge following, thanks, in part, to T-shirts that feature his bloody face.

An Aberdeen business has sold more than 1,000 T-shirts with the image of the bloody face of Seahawks fullback Owen Schmitt who was so fired up before the Oct.

Seattle, Wa. October 4, 2009 Seattle Mariners versus Texas Rangers at Safeco Field.

Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando ESPNews' Will Selva and I discussed the following issues on the regular Blogger's Blitz segment Wednesday: How the 49ers might use Michael Crabtree Rush Limbaugh's failed attempt to buy a stake in the Rams How close the Cardinals are to hitting stride Owen Schmitt's pregame bloodletting and how teammates responded ...

You mess with the bull, sometimes you get the horns. Jacksonville coach Jack Del Rio takes an eyeful of the scoreboard after giving some Seahawks an earful before the game.

Given the relentless grimness that has attended the Seahawks season, the concluding mood at Qwest Field Sunday afternoon was startling -- all fluffy kitties, butterscotch pudding and soft kisses.

Owen Schmitt is not a nut case. You might think so, but he's not. Coaches from his past insist that he's a sane individual, and the Seahawks fullback does, too.

Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck excels despite two broken ribs, thanks to painkillers shot directly into the fractures by an expert on precise injections the team had summoned to get Hasselbeck to play.

What a lazy approach to writing a dumb column. Each passing week, I find myself skipping over Kelley's columns more and more.

Here is video from Sunday where Seattle Seahawks fullback Owen Schmitt was getting fired up just before the game by hitting himself in the head with his own helmet.

Owen Schmitt came running onto the field before the Seahawks' must-win game Sunday against Jacksonville, crashing his helmet into his forehead until tributaries of blood streamed down his face and he looked like the winner of some Stupid Human Trick contest.

For those of you who didn't see it on Sunday, Seahawks fullback Owen Schmitt smacked himself in the head three or four times with his helmet when running out onto the field.

From The Sports Desk... Qwest Field , home to my beloved Seattle Seahawks, is a hostile joint.

If you stuck around on CBS on Sunday night for 60 Minutes you caught this story called " A Blow To The Brain ," which used Tim Tebow's recent concussion and return as a jumping off point to discuss brain damage occurring in football players at all age levels from youth football to the pros.

Player of the game Matt Hasselbeck passed for four touchdowns for the first time in two years and finished with a quarterback rating of... Player of the game Matt Hasselbeck passed for four touchdowns for the first time in two years and finished with a quarterback rating of 125.1. It's the second-highest rating he's had in a game since 2007.

Owen Schmitt, the wacky fullback of the Seattle Seahawks, pumped himself up during the player introductions by bashing his helmet into his head twice.