Former Kansas football star and Super Bowl champion Chris Harris of the Denver Broncos didn’t hold back Thursday in an appearance on ESPN’s Highly Questionable.
In the midst of an interview with co-hosts Dan Le Batard and Bomani Jones, Harris offered his recollection of an infamous on-campus altercation between members of the KU basketball and football teams, back in 2009.
> “Were you on the Kansas football team
> that lost the fight to the basketball
> Morris twins?” Le Batard asked.
>
> Smiling, Harris responded: “We
> definitely won that fight.”
>
> Jones followed up: “We hear the other
> way.”
[As reported by the Lawrence Journal-World at the time][1], the brawl left KU guard Tyshawn Taylor with a dislocated left thumb weeks before the start of the 2009-10 basketball season.
According to LeBetard, Marcus and Markieff Morris’ account of the incident includes them back-to-back, taking on football players “over someone who was on the track team.”
Harris remembers the fracas differently.
> “Nah, man. I mean that story right
> there, I think it was over one of the
> little track girls, but, I mean, we
> had 300-pound dudes fighting these
> basketball guys, so they definitely
> didn’t win,” Harris said. “I
> definitely watched it and seen it with
> my own eyes. We definitely won that
> for sure. I love the Morris twins,
> though. Those my boys, though.”
Furthermore, Harris claimed there wasn’t really a football versus basketball dynamic at KU.
> “We (the football team, coming off
> back-to-back bowl-win seasons) were
> actually pretty good at that time,”
> Harris said. “I guess you could say
> they were running the campus. We were,
> too.”
Reiterating his love for the Morris twins, Harris said he had to have his football teammates’ backs during the heated disagreement, before again laughing at the idea of a humongous defensive tackles in a melee against slighter basketball players.
> “It’s not fair to fight a 6-foot point
> guard or 6-7, 6-9 power forward. I
> think we had a little advantage,”
> Harris recalled, wearing a grin.
Harris, who played with volatile cornerback Aqib Talib at Kansas and is teamed up with him again in Denver, also shared on ESPN one of his favorite Talib stories from back in the day.
> “I was a true freshman, and I was
> starting opposite of Talib, who was an
> All-American. We were playing
> Missouri. They had their whole team on
> the 50-yard line, and Talib just like
> ran through their whole team,” Harris
> said. “And they were warming up,
> running plays, and he like, they had
> to get the cops to come drag him off
> there, off their side of the field for
> warmups, back in the tunnel. So I was
> like, ‘Man.’ That was one of the
> craziest times I’ve seen Talib right
> there.”
Watch the entire entertaining segment with Harris below:
https://twitter.com/HQonESPN/status/733401096291422212
[1]: http://www2.kusports.com/news/2009/sep/23/witnesses-report-second-altercation-between-basket/