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...been the starting center for the Vikings’ two highest single-season rushing totals in team history. He was a keystone of the NFL’s top offense in 2003. And despite the fact that Birk had never played center before joining the Vikings, the 6’4, 308 lb. hulk has been named to the Pro Bowl five times at that position...
...still get it,” Birk admits, “even seven years later. At first it was a little rough, and it was something I was kind of hoping would fly under the radar. It didn’t, and a lot of older guys would bust my chops about...
...certain sense of pride accompanies a career that peaks in the National Football League and begins in the Ivy League—as opposed to “big-time college football,” says Birk, where “the linemen are probably 20 or 30 pounds heavier, and the receivers and running backs are probably two or three tenths of a second faster...
...Birk still remembers the time now-retired Vikings veteran Cris Carter said that a Harvard education “was pretty cool, and that he admired...
...Birk represents one-half of the Crimson’s representation on active NFL rosters—Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00 is a Seattle Seahawks linebacker—and this success is far from typical for Harvard athletes in any sport...