The fans at CenturyLink Field in Seattle are pretty loud.

Loud enough to break a world record, we'll see in a few months.

IT WAS announced on Tuesday that a group of fans of the Seattle Seahawks will attempt to break the world record for loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium when the team hosts the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 15.

As if there wasn't enough motivation to be loud heading into the game.

For most of the offseason, members of the Seattle team have been deflecting questions about possible suspensions, at the same time taking shots at some of the 49er players and coaches.

And with the teams being two of the final four in the NFC playoffs last year, it might have been the worst kept secret that these teams don't like each other.

The fans - for the most part - don't get along either, so expecting it to be louder than any other game in Seattle isn't out of the question.

As for breaking the world record - recorded at 132 decibels during a soccer match in Turkey - I don't know.

When the game is played, the second week of the NFL season, it won't make or break either team's season like last year's game in Seattle.

That night, the Seahawks clinched a playoff berth and kept the 49ers from winning the NFC West on their home field.

IN THE two games I've seen between the two teams, both have had different outcomes.

The first in former coach Mike Holmgren's final season as coach, the 49ers won in overtime 34-31 after trailing 14-0 in the first five minutes of the game.

San Francisco was led in that game by J.T. O'Sullivan, who had the game of his career in leading his team back, as well as Patrick Willis intercepting a pass and bobbing and weaving his way to the end zone for a touchdown.

Two years later, in current coach Pete Carroll's first game with the team, the Seahawks won 31-6.

Both games, like this year's, were early in the season, when both are still figuring out how to be a good team. And the most noise I heard during that time usually came from jabs between coworkers anyway.

With all the free agents that each team have signed thus far, it might not be that far from what the game will be like this year.

Granted, they're both really talented, with a lot of hype around those teams to meet to determine a bid to the Super Bowl.

Should that title game get played in Seattle, then I'd bet the chances of the crowd noise exceeding the record of 132 decibels won't be out of the question.

If it is played in San Francisco, I'm sure the 49er fan base will be up for the challenge of trying to match it, just because of what is on the line.

San Francisco has plenty of experience playing in championship games, whether the Super Bowl or conference title games.

Seattle has played in two conference title games, winning one and still needs to prove that it belongs in that conversation.

And no amount of noise from Seahawks fans can change that.

Jason Elliott is a sports writer for the Coeur d'Alene Press. He can be reached by telephone at 664-8176, Ext. 2020 or via email at jelliott@cdapress.com.