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Urlacher: Beck didn't need to apologize

By Vaughn McClure

Before last week, Brian Urlacher had never heard of Glenn Beck.

After Beck, the Fox News personality, called the Bears linebacker a neo-Nazi during his show, Urlacher quickly found out a little background on Beck from others.

"One of my buddies called me and told me that I was going to think it was funny and it was funny," Urlacher said. "It's dumb. I think people blew it out of proportion."

Beck apologized at Foxnews.com.

But Urlacher saw no need.

"I don't think the guy was being malicious," he said. "He has a show, he was being funny, and that's it. He didn't know who I was, obviously. Even if he wouldn't have apologized, it wouldn't have been a big deal to me. I don't care about all that stuff."

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