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Rodney Harrison makes emotional plea for Peyton Manning to put health first

Found February 03, 2012 on Player Perspective: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Rodney Harrison,  Peyton Manning,  Bob Costas,  Cris Collinsworth
TEAMS: Indianapolis Colts

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Breaking sports news video. MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL highlights and more. Yesterday Peyton Manning was cleared to return to football. I still don’t understand what, exactly, that means. I also don’t know why he’d even consider playing after three neck surgeries involving bones being fused and scary things of that nature. Apparently Rodney Harrison doesn’t either. Harrison, along with other NBCers were on a panel for the debut of Bob Costas’s new show “Costas Tonight” and Harrison took a moment to address player safety and injuries. Harrison was clearly emotional and having some trouble expressing his himself coherently–maybe he didn’t want to go too far in criticizing the sport. But he started a sentence by saying if he’d known NOW what he knew back then when he was trying to establish his reputation as a hitter he… but then he didn’t complete the thought. During his speaking turn, Harrison also mentioned his own chro...
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