He picked up. That was when Dad knew that Demaryius Thomas wasn’t right, that the world as they knew it was about to shake the way a toddler shakes a snow globe. Bobby Thomas had called early Tuesday morning expecting it to go voicemail because his son was working out, same as every other early Tuesday morning.
Instead, the kid picked up. Still in bed, still pondering the future.
“He was just nervous,” the elder Thomas recalled Sunday at Broncos Stadium at Mile High, where DT’s new team, the Houston Texas, edged DT’s old team, 19-17.