PITTSBURGH—Steelers linebacker James Harrison is participating in prolonged closed-door meetings with team management, including coach Mike Tomlin and team owner Dan Rooney, over the path a man must walk in life, particularly if he is to be a hero to his son. “James is confident in his abilities as a player, but the Steelers must understand that he wants to be the kind of man his son would want to be in turn,” Harrison’s agent Bill Parise told reporters Tuesday. “It’s a deeply complex issue, but I think Mr. Rooney agrees with James in principle about standing up for yourself and just wants him to be a bit more realistic about the nature of masculinity and a man’s expectations for his children in an increasingly complex world.” Harrison and the Steelers are currently deliberating over a clause in Rudyard Kipling’s manhood-advice poem ’If’ that would require Harrison and his offspring to “meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same.”
James Harrison In Serious Talks With Steelers About Life, Being A Father
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