From Banned in Pop Warner to Bears Legend: Tommie Harris’ Untold Chicago Stories Interview

In fifth grade, Tommie Harris was already too dominant for Pop Warner football in Killeen, Texas. At just 150 pounds, he was hip-tossing kids and wrecking plays with the same swim move that would later terrorize NFL quarterbacks. Parents complained it was unfair. The league limited him to two carries per game, then suspended him entirely. “Told I’d never make it,” Harris says in the latest Untold Chicago Stories episode (released March 2026). That early rejection didn’t break him—it lit the fuse...