West Seattle's Nancy McManus, an Admiral resident, seems to have been a bigger winner than the Seahawks Sunday, Jan. 16. She won two tickets to the game at Chicago's blustery Soldier Field and cheered Seattle. OK, so the Hawks lost their grip on the frozen ball, but McManus still had fun with her daughter Delaney,12, an Explorer West student, in tow.

"There was a Facebook contest between the Space Needle's Sky City and the John Hancock Observatory to write why you should go," said McManus. The West Seattle Herald reached her today by phone at a coffee shop by South Michigan Ave. near Soldier Field. "I won two tickets to the game, a night stay at the Essex Hotel, and dinner for four at Sky city when I return."

She felt the Seahawks would have been much more competitive if they were not plagued with injured players.

And while the Chicago Bears are a rough-and-tumble team, McManus emphasized that the fans were gracious toward her, even while wearing her Seahawks hat.

"You know what? People have been so overwhelmingly friendly," she said of the Bears fans. "They teased us and gave us a hard time, but it was all good-natured fun."

Although a hardcore Seahawks fan, McManus said she appreciates the "Bears spirit." She was raise north of Chicago and has not been back for 20 years.

"I'm reaquainting myself with an old friend," she said.

While McManus is a Seahawks fan, she has her own large fan base back home in the virtual media world with her neighborhood connection site on the web, QuallyQue.com, which is also on Facebook and Twitter. She promised the site will soon expand exponentially. It features neighborhoods both in West Seattle and Ballard, Capitol Hill, and others. You can also find her, and QuallyQue through West Seattle on Social Media on Facebook, also her site.