Earl Thomas hadn’t missed a game since his days at West Orange-Stark (Texas) High School before he was forced to sit out the Seahawks’ trip last Sunday to Tampa Bay.
And at first, Thomas wasn’t sure what he was going to do with himself.
“It was definitely hard,” said Thomas, who had started 106 straight regular-season games since being drafted by the Seahawks in 2010 (and 118 including the post-season) before suffering a hamstring injury against the Eagles on Nov. 20 that caused him to miss the game against Tampa Bay.
Thomas’ solution? Take his wife, daughter and brother to Portland to take in a couple of TrailBlazers’ games, including one against “my favorite team, the Rockets.