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I guess this is a piece you write when the answers you got don't jive with your perspective on a situation.
"Can an admitted rule-breaker really expect to be accorded the authority to police the locker room?
“Of course,” said fullback Heath Evans [stats]. “He’s Rodney Harrison. Do you want me to go biblical on you? I’m not going to be the first one to cast the first stone. Whether it’s lying to your mom when you’re 3 years old or whatever it may be . . . I’m just glad to have Rodney Harrison back.”
At least publicly, a number of teammates agreed, though it should be noted that the culture of the Patriots - a culture Harrison helped spawn - frowns upon declarations deviating from “Welcome back!”
"This is different. Harrison’s word was supposed to stand for something honorable, but now he’s like James Frey fabricating “A Million Little Pieces,” Steve Garvey acting squeaky clean while fathering a kid in every port, or Carlos Mencia stealing jokes. He’s tainted, and he’ll take that back into the locker room." (He missed two other analogies closer to home: Borges plagerising and Barnicle fabricating...both are still venerated among the Boston media and one still remains it's only HOF voter.)
“Everyone may have different opinions and everyone may not share them with you,” Harrison said when asked if he had anything to prove to his teammates. “I can’t go out of my way to try to change everyone’s opinion of me. I know what type of person I am.”
This isn’t about what Harrison knows, unfortunately. It’s about the rest of his team, and if they’ll feel like taking orders from a guy who got busted for cheating. (They told you it's not a problem not to mention they don't seem to have issues taking orders from the tainted HC either, do they John...)
As usual for Tomase it's about the same thing it's always about for judgemental Boston mediots - why these players don't get what you get or won't just admit it...
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/football/patriots/view.bg?articleid=1035928
"Can an admitted rule-breaker really expect to be accorded the authority to police the locker room?
“Of course,” said fullback Heath Evans [stats]. “He’s Rodney Harrison. Do you want me to go biblical on you? I’m not going to be the first one to cast the first stone. Whether it’s lying to your mom when you’re 3 years old or whatever it may be . . . I’m just glad to have Rodney Harrison back.”
At least publicly, a number of teammates agreed, though it should be noted that the culture of the Patriots - a culture Harrison helped spawn - frowns upon declarations deviating from “Welcome back!”
"This is different. Harrison’s word was supposed to stand for something honorable, but now he’s like James Frey fabricating “A Million Little Pieces,” Steve Garvey acting squeaky clean while fathering a kid in every port, or Carlos Mencia stealing jokes. He’s tainted, and he’ll take that back into the locker room." (He missed two other analogies closer to home: Borges plagerising and Barnicle fabricating...both are still venerated among the Boston media and one still remains it's only HOF voter.)
“Everyone may have different opinions and everyone may not share them with you,” Harrison said when asked if he had anything to prove to his teammates. “I can’t go out of my way to try to change everyone’s opinion of me. I know what type of person I am.”
This isn’t about what Harrison knows, unfortunately. It’s about the rest of his team, and if they’ll feel like taking orders from a guy who got busted for cheating. (They told you it's not a problem not to mention they don't seem to have issues taking orders from the tainted HC either, do they John...)
As usual for Tomase it's about the same thing it's always about for judgemental Boston mediots - why these players don't get what you get or won't just admit it...
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/football/patriots/view.bg?articleid=1035928