FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- NBC football studio analyst Rodney Harrison has spoken so highly of his time with the New England Patriots (2003-2008) that it doesn't seem like a stretch to say that he bleeds Patriot red, white and blue. So rewind to Feb. 5, 2017, in Houston, Texas, at Super Bowl LI and consider the situation in which Harrison found himself.
"I ended up leaving in the third quarter. I was getting harassed by Falcon fans, so it got to a point where it was so bad, I just left. I felt like we were going to lose and we were actually going to get blown out," Harrison said Tuesday on a conference call previewing Sunday's game between the teams (NBC, 8:30 p.