“I think there was a security issue there. After the game, there are fans in this tunnel where players are walking. It’s like me walking a foot away from an angry fan who has been drinking allgame long and is saying, ‘Howard, you suck!’ What do you say? What do you do? Who in his right mind says, ‘Thank you’ or starts meditating his way to the locker room?”

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