Quote:Nice story. Even with a hearing aid it must be difficult to pick up signals, and especially audibles, when playing on the road.

 

Coleman said the crowd noise does not hurt this ears, but he can feel it and knows it is loud. Of course we all know home games are louder than road games for the Seahawks.

 

Based on how he described the difference between wearing and not wearing hearing aids, it sounds like they improve his hearing by about 50-60 percent and he only hears 70% of what normal people do with them in. That means even in team meetings and press conferences, he misses a lot of words and needs to lipread.

 

When Russell Wilson calls an audible, if #40 is behind him, he turns around to look at Coleman.

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