Found November 08, 2009 on Sports Frog:
Let me have Bernard Pollard explain: “With professional athletes, you’re dealing with grown men. You’re not dealing with boys,” Pollard tells the Journal Gazette. “You’re not in a locker room with sophomores in high school. You’re dealing with grown men with families. I have a wife. I have a son. And I have a daughter on [...]
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