Kenny Easley now refers to it as a divorce.
From the time his career ended because of a kidney ailment in 1987 to when the Seattle Seahawks inducted Easley into their Ring of Honor in 2002, he wanted nothing to do with the NFL.
"I had every right to be angry," Easley said. "And I decided at that point that if I never talked to the Seahawks or to anybody in the Seahawks organization, it'd be fine with me. And it was 15 years. I didn't watch a football game or Seahawks game or basically any kind of football.