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Bears DL Harris: No hard feelings toward Cowboys OT Colombo
Posted at 4:35 PM on Tue., Sep. 14, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Gerry Fraley / Reporter Bio | E-mail | News tips
If Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Marc Colombo is able to return from last month's surgery on the right knee to make his season debut in Sunday's home opener against Chicago, he will see a familiar face on the other side.
These teams last met in 2007, at Chicago. In that game, Colombo was called for a leg-whip on defensive tackle Tommie Harris, who incurred a torn ligament in the left knee on the play. Harris has had multiple surgeries in the knee since that game, and his play has dropped.
Harris told the Chicago Tribune ``there's no bad blood'' between him and Colombo. According to Harris, Colombo met him in a Solidier Field parking lot after the game to apologize for the play. The NFL hit Colombo with a $12,500 fine for the play.
``That man is trying to feed his family, just the same way I am," Harris said. "I don't take that junk personally. All those boys out there play dirty. That's what they have to do to stop me.''
The injury to Harris added to Colombo's checkered history with the Bears. They took Colombo in the first round of the 2002 draft, but he was released after appearing in only 23 games during three injury-plagued seasons.
Posted at 4:35 PM on Tue., Sep. 14, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Gerry Fraley / Reporter Bio | E-mail | News tips
If Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Marc Colombo is able to return from last month's surgery on the right knee to make his season debut in Sunday's home opener against Chicago, he will see a familiar face on the other side.
These teams last met in 2007, at Chicago. In that game, Colombo was called for a leg-whip on defensive tackle Tommie Harris, who incurred a torn ligament in the left knee on the play. Harris has had multiple surgeries in the knee since that game, and his play has dropped.
Harris told the Chicago Tribune ``there's no bad blood'' between him and Colombo. According to Harris, Colombo met him in a Solidier Field parking lot after the game to apologize for the play. The NFL hit Colombo with a $12,500 fine for the play.
``That man is trying to feed his family, just the same way I am," Harris said. "I don't take that junk personally. All those boys out there play dirty. That's what they have to do to stop me.''
The injury to Harris added to Colombo's checkered history with the Bears. They took Colombo in the first round of the 2002 draft, but he was released after appearing in only 23 games during three injury-plagued seasons.