Outside an Atlanta gas station, Rocky Seto stopped running. He walked inside, bought a hot dog and bottle of water and handed them to a man on a bench. Then he started talking.
Seto, the Seahawks’ assistant head coach for defense, always jogged before road games, and often those runs ended in conversation. Just then, Ben Malcolmson, Pete Carroll’s assistant, happened to be walking back from breakfast when he spotted Seto from the sidewalk: hunched forward to better listen to the homeless man next to him.
“Just spreading the Gospel,” Seto said.
A few hours later, the Seahawks played the Falcons in the playoffs.