One fan in particular enjoyed the Seahawks game Sunday as never before: season ticket-holder, Dean Olson, who can’t hear the game. Despite the seismic-level roar coming out of CenturyLink Field (considered the loudest venue in the NFL), hearing-impaired fans have been left in relative silence until this season. Olson and friends lobbied for years, and now, for the first time, closed captioning appears side-by-side with the electronic ticker. Abbey Gibb, who recently moved up to Seattle from Newschannel 8, found out about it. Here’s link to her KING 5 News story.
Rebecca Webb is a cofounder and Board President at Portland Radio Project Listen Now
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