The five-time Pro Bowl running back, who abruptly retired from the Seattle Seahawks after the 2015 s. ng the nation’s addiction crisis, couldn’t resist a comment bringing in Eli’s older brother, who is generally considered the superior quarterback of the two. A confidant of three commissioners, he played a major role in negotiations with the players’ union and in league expansion in 1976 to Seattle and Tampa. An eagle-eyed TV viewer called in to complain that Thompson had placed her golf ball, after marking it, about half a centimetre from its original place on the 17th green.