The NFL flexed its muscles again when it mandated James Harrison meet with its investigators about performance-enhancing drugs under its timetable and not his. Harrison and the NFLPA asked for a meeting on Aug. 30, and the league scheduled the date for Thursday morning instead.
At this point, after a drama-filled eight months of back-and-forth between the union and the league over "credible evidence," Harrison simply wants to get the interview done.
"I'm not anxious," Harrison said. "It's just a stupid thing I have to do to continue to doing what I want to do, trying to get where we want to be, and that's holding the Lombardi."
Harrison has maintained his innocence after his name was mentioned in a report about PED use in the NFL. The source for the Al Jazeera America report quickly recanted his story after the story was published.
Former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, who was the player most prominently mentioned in the report, was interviewed by the NFL and cleared of any wrongdoing. Harrison expects the same to happen to him.
"They're going to clear me," he said. "They cleared him. I'm going to be cleared. They're going to give me the same thing: flash, across the bulletin board, NFL, Instagram, Twitter, all that. James Harrison cleared."
