Steve Helland:  

After graduating I became active in supporting the West Seattle area coalition against the Samoan gang activity by organizing street/park evening rumbles (fighting with hands only-no weapons as there were too many serious injuries and deaths) This worked for awhile but after a few months of negotiating I learned that the Samoan community loved to play football. We soon started holding games at Lincoln Park in West Seattle. Our differences shallowed and soon we were getting along as friends and friction diminished between the families. During this time Chris Smith, Kenny Catone, By Bro Scott Helland, Steve Machias, Todd Zufelt, Scotty Desmond,...Pretty much anyone I could muster to attend these games was there. One day when playing ball up there we were visited by a Seahawks talent scout and along with myself two others from the Samoan community in Seattle were invited to the Kirkland training facility for the Seattle Seahawks! Wow!! After all this I attended Renton Vocational-Technical school for a year and followed in my fathers' footsteps as a metals tradesman focusing in welding and blueprint reading. Later I attended Fort Stillicoom College, Big bend comm. College, South Seattle comm College, UW and Cougarville. At first I was intereted in studying the origin...Expand for more