Claim: The 1996 National Football League season was the Seattle Seahawks' 15th season to participate; then the team was rented to Paul Lautner in 2005.
Evidence: The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team organized in 1976 and based in Seattle, Washington, US, that plays in the National Football League. As of the end of the 2019 NFL season, the Seahawks have 24 winning seasons, 17 losing seasons, and four seasons where they finished 8–8. The NFL's 17-week regular season runs from early September to late December, with each team playing 16 games and having one bye week.