“The city is a city where people say it rains all the time, but it’s a family city,” said Payton. "It’s all good. If you looked at every player that played in Seattle during the time, they were always saying, ‘Man, it’s a great city.’ They always want to come back there. It’s a hell of a city. I think that everybody just doesn’t understand that. Especially when summers comes, we got all the boats, we got all the fishing. We got everything. “It’s a city where you can go and walk down the walk down the downtown and go shopping and do things like that,” Payton continued. “A good tourist situation, good food, good eats. They got a lot of good things going on around there. People have to understand, you got to see our city to understand what it is. I’s not just a city of rain, it's a city of love.”

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