Macho Harris: From flag football back to the NFL
"Those who are most unhappy with the NFL's new and more stringent contact policies say that Roger Goodell is turning the NFL into a flag football league. If you want to get the real read on that, you may want to ask defensive back Victor "Macho" Harris, who has seen time in each league. Selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 2009 draft out of Virginia Tech, Harris played in 15 games in his rookie season and was cut by the team on Sept. 4 of this year. Between then and his recent signing with the Washington Redskins, Harris played in the Fairfax County Flag Football League, near his hometown of Highland Springs, Virginia. And according to Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post's must-read D.C. Sports Bog, Harris wasn't going up against a bunch of weekend warriors with beer guts in this league -- the Fairfax League has four divisions, plays 8-on-8 on a regulation field, and has featured contributions from many Division I football players. Harris had many high school friends in the league, and being a bit at odds after his release, turned observation into participation in a hurry. Contact is allowed at the line of scrimmage, which separates it from some other types of flag football, and Harris was able to star on both sides of the line with a game-winning touchdown catch for his team, the Novocaine"
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