Former Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker James Harrison was at one time regarded not only as the most feared player in the game, but also the dirtiest. One title he would gladly embrace; the other, not so much. In spite of a respectable list of fines, and becoming the poster child for the player safety initiative era, he doesn’t shy away from his legacy at all nor apologize for it.
The former Defensive Player of the Year popped onto Ben Roethlisberger’s Footbahlin podcast, a watchthrough of Sunday’s win over the Falcons, which posted yesterday. Roethlisberger asked him at one point what his hardest hit, “legal or illegal”, was in his career.