RENTON, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks players had filed into the auditorium at team headquarters for a morning meeting, but the guy running it was nowhere to be found.
This was in October of 2020, the Saturday before a road game against the Arizona Cardinals. Coach Pete Carroll had undergone arthroscopic knee surgery during the preceding bye week and a day earlier had been hobbling around the team's Friday practice with the help of a cane in his right hand.
So you can imagine his players' disbelief at what they saw next: their then-69-year-old head coach, bum knee and all, bursting into the room in a full-on sprint.