New Yorkers know well the rage James Harrison has sparked
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“He erased his own legacy,” Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey told reporters on Wednesday.
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Leo Durocher was the first. He was an irascible but exceedingly popular figure who’d led the Dodgers to the 1941 pennant, guided them through the turbulent spring training of 1947 when he all but dared his players to revolt against Jackie Robinson before being suspended for the regular season for flaunting his engagement to the divorced actress Lorraine Day.
Nothing prepared the city or the sport for what happened on July canada goose outlet store 16, 1948, though, when the Dodgers agreed to let their detested rivals, the Giants, hire Durocher away. Then, across the next 6 seasons, Brooklyn still searching for its first ever title simmered and then boiled as Durocher first led the Giants to the miracle 1951 comeback over the Dodgers, and then ’54 World Series, to canada goose outlet black friday boot.
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It isn’t always confined to intramural New York activity, of course. Sam Huff was incensed when the football Giants traded him to the Redskins in 1964, canada goose outlet parka a feeling that was mirrored by millions of Giants fans, and one that culminated when he overruled his coach, Otto Graham, on the afternoon of Nov. 27, 1966, very late in a blowout game, when he grabbed kicker Charlie Gogolak and pushed him on the field to kick a last second field goal that put the finishing touches on an epic 72 41 slaughter.
Mets fans, of course, have had the most practice at this dynamic, since long before Murphy found prosperous exile with Canada Goose Online their biggest division rivals. Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden and David Cone all prominent members of the Mets who held the city in the canada goose outlet shop palm of their hands wound up with the Yankees who painted it permanently pinstriped. The three of them combined to win nine championship rings with the Yanks. That one still leaves a mark.
Funny, though: It’s hard to remember any such transaction that ever inspired small acts of jersey arson, not even the hard to take sights of canada goose outlet canada ex Net Jason Kidd as a Knick, ex Jet Darrelle Revis as a Pat, or ex Islander Pat LaFontaine as a Ranger. Maybe we just don’t care enough. Or maybe it just doesn’t get cold enough.
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