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stillers4me
09-11-2011, 06:56 AM
James Harrison didn't beat his chest or stomp his feet after smothering a running back. There was no dance of self-adulation. While his teammates lathered him with praise, Harrison walked toward the huddle unmoved, as if such violent hits were routine. He dominated every game this way.

He was 9 years old.

"The hitting he's doing now is nothing new to him," James Harrison Sr. said of the Steelers' All-Pro linebacker. "He's been hitting like that since Day 1. ... He wakes up in the morning wanting to hit somebody."
At 33, Harrison hasn't changed much...................

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fansince'76
09-11-2011, 07:03 AM
Harrison often is labeled a "dirty player" instead of a hard-nosed defender, a calculating cheap-shot artist instead of a ball-hawking linebacker. Others paint the once-vagabond free agent as undisciplined instead of a fearless defender with a perpetually bad attitude that characterized greats such as Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkus.

:rolleyes:

Please - if (especially) Butkus played today, he'd be considered the dirtiest player in the league by the same bunch of blubbering manginas that currently claim the same thing of Harrison. :coffee:

86WARD
09-11-2011, 07:11 AM
^^^this...

SMR
09-11-2011, 08:15 AM
:rolleyes:

Please - if (especially) Butkus played today, he'd be considered the dirtiest player in the league by the same bunch of blubbering manginas that currently claim the same thing of Harrison. :coffee:

:nod: