The Seahawks set a record for attendance at the NFC Championship Game when 68,538 souls packed themselves into CenturyLink Field to see the Seahawks advance to the Super Bowl by beating the Packers.
That record should be broken at the team’s first home game in 2015. The Seahawks announced Monday that there will be more seats at the stadium next year.
They’re adding 1,000 seats above the south end zone on either side of the “12" flag that is raised before each game to commemorate the team’s fans. In between the two new seating areas will be a covered area with TVs and a fireplace that team president Peter McLoughlin says will have a “cool outdoor cabin feel.”
“We could have filled in the whole upper bowl with just bleacher seats. But there’s nothing special about that, and (owner) Paul Allen was really a driver behind, ‘Let’s do something really good for the fans, something different and unique,’” McLoughlin said in a release from the team.
There will also be eight new suites, which the team says have already sold, to push the capacity of the stadium north of 69,000 people.
