The Real Tommie Harris

When he first entered the league, Tommie Harris was a frightening man. As a three-technique in the cover-two defense, this man could create all kinds of problems for opposing teams against the pass and run. Harris was also a spiritual man that appeared to say and do all the right things off the field. That was then, this is now. The Tommie Harris we all fell in love wasn’t the same man after injuring his leg during the 2006 season. He struggled to regain the form that made him one of the league’s premier football players. So what happened to Tommie Harris? Let me give you some background. I broke my ankle two summer’s ago. I decided to try an alternative therapy called ARP (accelerated recovery performance). Without going into specific details, it provides and intense direct current into an injured area to increase healing. Many professional athletes (including Patrick Mannelly that I met) use this for both training and recovery purposes. It an extremely painful b...