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Article: EASLEY'S HONOR LONG OVERDUE.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 9, 2002
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Byline: CLARE FARNSWORTH P-I reporter
CHENEY -- It was 1981, but it somehow feels like only yesterday.
Nolan Cromwell was one of the premier safeties in the National Football League. Marcus Robertson was growing up and would become a professional football player. Jim Zorn was perfecting the art of tomfoolery as the left-handed quarterback of a fledgling team called the Seahawks.
Then something happened that would change their lives, and the way the safety position was played.
The Seahawks drafted Kenny Easley out of UCLA.
Cromwell, Robertson and Zorn had front-row seats for what was to follow - Cromwell as a member of the Los ...