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Buccaneers' Jason Pierre-Paul has embraced his amputations and grown; now he's helping me

Toward the end of the 2015 season, Jason Pierre-Paul walked into a room for an interview with Fox. Before he sat down in his chair, the reporter, Laura Okmin, stood, smiled ... and gave him the finger.

Pierre-Paul smiled back -- and threw a bird her way, too.

The New York Giants' PR people and Fox camera crew all stopped what they were doing and just stared at one another. Okmin let it hang in the air for a second, and then she explained what was happening as Pierre-Paul laughed along with the quick backstory:

She had spoken with Pierre-Paul earlier in the season, right before his first game back after a horrible fireworks accident that July.