Harrison like a fox or really crazy?
FORT WORTH, Texas - James Harrison has been throwing out some pretty crazy ideas this week, from lining the field with pillows to turning the NFL into a flag football league. Most of that is due to his frustration with being the most-fined player in this season of helmet-to-helmet crackdowns.
But how crazy is Harrison? His teammates have been wondering that for nearly a decade.
"I thought he was crazy when I first saw him out there on the practice field," said fellow Steelers linebacker James Farrior, who arrived with the Steelers as a free agent in 2002, Harrison's rookie season. "He was doing crazy things. I thought the guy was trying to get himself cut. I didn't think he really wanted to play football."
Farrior said that during practices Harrison - an undrafted rookie at the time, remember - would throw his hands up in the middle of a play at practice and tell the coaches to take him off the field because he didn't know what he was doing. "And I thought that was the craziest thing I had ever seen in my life," Farrior said. "That was my first impression of James Harrison."
McCarthy sour on tweets
Social media has played a large role in the NFL in the last few weeks, from daggers thrown at Jay Cutler from opposing players to Packers griping about their place in the team photo. So when is Mike McCarthy joining in on the act?
"I won't even let my daughter have a Facebook account, so I think that tells you what I think about Twitter," the Packers' coach said. "I would not even know how to access a Twitter account right now. I understand that it is an important part of the network, but that is something personally that I have zero interest in."
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