Kenny Easley was seeing a sport he no longer recognized. And he wanted no more of it.
The Seahawks’ former thumping safety, the 1984 NFL defensive player of the year and three-time All-Pro, was watching the Pro Bowl a few years ago.
As my colleague Dave Boling details so well in Friday’s News Tribune, Easley hadn’t watched a football game in 15 years. He was, in his word, “estranged” from the game in general, and the Seahawks in particular. He had sued the team for causing his kidney disease doctors eventually attributed to the overuse of pain-killing medications.