Overview
- The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette organized a reunion dinner in the Pittsburgh area between James Harrison and Nathan Mallett nearly 20 years after the on-field incident.
- Post-Gazette Sports shared video of the cordial meeting as the Browns and Steelers prepare to play Sunday in Week 17.
- Mallett thanked Harrison, saying “you slammed some sense into me,” and credited the encounter and its fallout with helping launch roughly 16 years of sobriety.
- Mallett said he had been heavily drinking on his birthday before running onto the field, and Harrison said he only intended to hold him until police arrived.
- After the 2005 tackle, Mallett was arrested and later spent Super Bowl weekend in jail, a consequence he now describes as part of his turning point.