Bill Belichick talked to James Harrison about playing one more year for the New England Patriots, but the thought of leaving Pittsburgh again was too much for him.
“I knew I wasn’t going to be at home, so that’s really what it came down to,’’ Harrison told the Post-Gazette in a phone interview Wednesday.
He wasn’t sure he wanted to play the 2018 season anyway at age 40, even if the Steelers had kept him on the roster and not cut him at the end of last year.
He promised his sons, ages 8 and 10, that he would be there when they played tackle football to make sure they did it safely and correctly, and that time is at hand.