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James Harrison, who once body-slammed a Browns fan, is now Steelers' all-time sack leader

Thirty-eight-year-old Steelers linebacker James Harrison now owns the team's all-time sack record after bringing down Browns quarterback Cody Kessler on Sunday.

The sack gave him 77.5 for his career, a half-sack better than Jason Gildon, who played in Pittsburgh from 1994-2004. As it turns out, Harrison, an undrafted free agent out of Kent State, earned his first sack for the Steelers in '04, and in 2008 he had a career-best 16 sacks during the team's Super Bowl season.

Of course, Harrison's best sack wasn't recognized by the league, though it did come against the Browns -- a Browns fan, to be precise -- 11 years ago:

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