James Harrison has overcome daunting odds and a tortured path to stardom in a miraculous rise from an undrafted free agent to the 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year who set the Super Bowl record for the longest play ever. Cut four times by NFL teams, Harrison could have thrown in the towel many times on his rocky road to stardom and self acceptance. If he wasn’t a man of such raw power, fiery emotion and sheer will, he could not have risen above personal setbacks and repeated snubs to become the best defensive player in the NFL. Or he could have gotten there faster.