RENTON, Wash. -- When the Seattle Seahawks were on their bye earlier this month, Ken Norton Jr.'s wife took him to see The Spinners at a downtown Seattle jazz club. Angela Norton knew the special place the Motown-era R&B band holds in her husband's heart.
It was all he and his dad used to listen to on those long road trips from Southern California to the Midwest.
Before Ken Norton Sr. conquered Muhammad Ali, his breakthrough in what would become a Hall of Fame boxing career, he was barely scraping by as a unknown fighter raising a young Norton Jr.