After Further Review

POSTGAME INTERVIEW: ARMEN YOUSOUFIAN, FIELD JUDGE

"I'm still on the documents trail. There's more to the story, and despite the court ruling I won, the county is still stonewalling me. They also just asked the state appeals court to reconsider its December ruling that the county showed a lack of good faith and egregious mishandling of my inquiries." As the owner of University Plaza Hotel, he says, he was merely curious back in 1997 how the stadium hotel-motel tax extension would affect his business. "I asked around, then got snubbed by officials, and decided to find out on my own." He became a documents diver, spending hour after hour in offices and storage vaults. "It always appeared to me that the stadium charade was maintained every step of the way," Yousoufian says. "Everyone played along or bought into it. We paid for a billionaire's dream."

Chuck Taylor

Seahawks Stadium seats 67,000?just 600 more than the Kingdome, which was deemed too small by team owner Paul Allen.

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