Jan. 8, 2011

The true beginning of Beast Mode and everything that followed came with 3:22 left in a wild-card game against the New Orleans Saints, as a 7-9 Seahawks team tried to hang on to a win against the defending Super Bowl champs.

On first-and-10 from the Seattle 33-yard line, Lynch took a handoff and took off, cutting and weaving through the Saints secondary, breaking eight tackles and stiff-arming Tracy Porter en route to a 67-yard touchdown run. The run elicited an increasing roar from the CenturyLink Field crowd that registered on the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network's earthquake monitoring stations, creating a run with its own name that will live in Seahawks lore forever: Beast Quake.

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