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David Haugh: Brian Urlacher: 'I changed the way middle linebacker was played'

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - For a second, forget whether Brian Urlacher will go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

A less pressing question on the minds of many Chicagoans is easier to answer: Whenever Urlacher gets enshrined, will the bronze bust in Canton, Ohio, reflect him with or without hair that returned thanks to a recent transplant?

"If I go in, there will be no hair on the bust," said Urlacher, the face on all those "Restore" billboards along I-294. "I played my whole career bald, so it would

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