Home for the Holidays: Looking at Brian Dawkins’ Return to Philadelphia

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Published: December 26, 2009

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... there's no place like home for the holidays.

Both are true in the case of Brian Dawkins, who, on Sunday, will once again walk out onto the field that he patrolled for 13 years.  

Only this time, he will do so wearing colors other than Eagle green—Bronco blue, to be exact. And given his age and the whims of the NFL schedulers, it may just be the last time B-Dawk digs his cleats into the turf at Lincoln Financial Field.

Yet in a stadium where even the home team gets booed lustily at times, odds are better than excellent he’ll receive the biggest ovation of all.

And why shouldn’t he? For a baker’s dozen worth of seasons, Dawkins’ presence out in “center field” was the heart and soul of an Eagles defense that consistently ranked in the Top 10 in the NFL. He ...

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