It's early August. The Indianapolis Colts are playing the New York Jets. It's a preseason game. The outcome simply does not matter.
And, yet, Donald Thomas is crying.
He was supposed to be doing something more than sitting helplessly on his sofa, utterly failing to control his emotions. He was not supposed to be watching a seemingly meaningless football game. No, he was supposed to playing in it.
"That first game was so hard to watch," the Colts' veteran offensive guard said of the 2014 exhibition opener. "But I had to watch.