Who’s the last guy in the NFL that you think would be involved in a shooting? Take a minute to write down a name. (And ignore the title to this article in doing so.)
If you wrote down “Marvin Harrison” (and more than a few of you undoubtedly did . . . especially if you weren’t able to ignore the title to this article), then you win.
The Italian leg lamp will be arriving tonight.
Harrison, per our friends (except one of them) at WIP radio in Philly, is being investigated for his role in a shooting that occurred Tuesday night outside his North Philadelphia bar.
Harrison was involved in an argument with the victim at the ironically-named “Playmakers” bar. As the victim left and was walking to his car, Harrison was following. Shots rang out, and the victim was struck in the hand. A young girl was struck by broken glass from a car that had been struck by a bullet.
Ballistic tests showed that the bullets came from a custom-made Belgian gun. Harrison owns one of the guns in question.
Questioned about it at a Philadelphia car wash that he owns, Harrison admitted that he owns such a gun, but that it has never left his home.
Later, the gun was found in a bucket at the car wash. Tests revealed that the gun was the same gun involved in the shooting, and that seven bullets were fired at the time.
Folks, Marvin is innocent until proven guilty. But unless there’s a socially-challenged [Editor’s note: Is that better?] cousin (or a dog with a thumb) on whom this thing can be pinned, Harrison’s quest for Jerry Rice’s all-time records might be derailed by something other than bad knees.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
amazing, but its easy to forget the warning signs he has apperently shown
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May 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
To be fair, I’d say that most pro athletes need to carry a gun these days. They are such obvious targets and size/strength/speed doesn’t help you when the other person in a dispute is armed with a gun or a knife.
The real legal question is whether Mr. Harrison felt in danger when he fired. If the victim was fleeing, self-defense will be harder to claim. If the victim was coming towards Mr. Harrison when the shots were fired, then it’s a different tale.
My big question is this — Are there any star wide receivers that aren’t bat guano crazy in terms of their personal behavior? No wonder Andy Reid doesn’t want to acquire one. His sons give him enough criminal and crazy behavior to deal with on a daily basis.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Bail him outta this one Sir Peyton Brady’s got Moss an Manning’s got wyatt earp go pats !!
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May 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I’ve never understood why he’s perceived as such a “great” guy. He’s always come off as kind of angry whenever I have seen him speak, like when approached about his lack of production leading up to the Super Bowl.
I guess as long as you’re one of the wide outs that is quiet as opposed to a loud mouth showboat, that makes you a “great” guy in the eyes of the media. go figure. they’d probably still be saying Ray Carruth was a “great” guy, except he ordered a drive by on his kid’s mother. So loudmouth = bad guy and quiet = good guy. that’s funny.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
something else is up if he hasn’t been arrested already. the way this reads, it sounds easy open and shut. but they haven’t arrested him. there’s got to be more to this. i actually wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t the actual shooter but it was his gun, something like that.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
You know what they always say, “It’s the quiet ones you gotta look out for”
ESPN reports he has 25 guns…over kill
.50 caliber…over kill
and, if I read this correctly, this guy got shot from behind!
Spineless, gutless, low life!
Bring it on!!!
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May 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
what?! A colt in trouble? NO, never! That’s heresy!
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May 2nd, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I think Marvin forgot he stopped playing Grand Theft Auto IV on the way to his business.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
It was be interesting to see how Commissioner Polian, I mean Commissioner Goddell will handle this. Snce it has to do with the Colts, I’m sure this will get brushed under the carpet very quickly
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May 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
to the idiot who asked why athletes need to carry guns when they can beat up 99% of the people in the world…do you not have common sense? a guy like me would get my ass kicked from someone like warren sapp but if i had a gun and they didnt, i know i can kill everyone person in the NFL one on one. incidents that happened to sean taylor and eddy curry are why athletes carry guns. because there are too many black thugs out there trying to climb over another person success they didnt earn
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May 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
This strikes me as a Zidane-esque way to end his career.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Well if Harrison was smart like Pacman he would just hire someone to shoot they guy…
Why can’t these athletes own like an amusement park or a Dave and Busters, where people go with their family. Not a place where people go to get drunk and subsequently pissed.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Mr. Harrison is really all about himself and always has been. I bet when the truth comes out the person he shot at was probably messing with his boyfriend. That is where his boyfriend lives Philly…
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May 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Whenever something happens that utterly shocks you, it is crucial that you examine the things you know carefully:
**Marvin Harrison messed his knee up bad and this is the first time his longevity of his career has been called into question.**He was involved in a fight with a regular patron at a bar that he owns.**Ron from NM knows an assload about firearms and explained the forensics explicitly.**The gun in question was a custom made Belgian handgun which he owned along with 24 other registered firearms.**Overall, his criminal record is pretty clean.**
Who knows what happened to set this off? Some version will be released by all parties, I’m sure. It’s especially unfortunate because he is so well respected in the public eye. We’ll see how it plays out, but IF he fired seven shots and hit the guy in the hand once, he was either trying to scare the guy or he’s a horrible shot. Even if it was a lapse in judgement, it’s reckless.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Say what you want about Belichickbeing a cheater…at least he isn’t guiltly of attempted murder. Oh where oh where is St. Dungy. How can this happen to such a christen man who never judges others and does only good.
Yeah right he.spoke loudy about his judgement against Belichick. Comparing Belichick with Barry Bonds. Wonder how he feels now that Harrison is being judged by Pacman, But this could be worse for Harrison…he pulled the trigger.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Huh, onanygivensunday. That’s weird. I could have sworn the headline read that Marvin Harrison was interviewed during the investigation, not Tony Dungy. Guess I need to suspend “judgement” on whether or not Harrison (Dungy?) is “guiltly” until I put on my reading glasses. Besides.. it’s the “christen” thing to do.
*snicker*
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May 3rd, 2008 at 12:08 am
Hey MP45242. The Bengal jokes will not get old as long as the Bengals continue to sign turds.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 am
I predict a Monday morning Peter King column defending Marvin as “one of the good guys of the NFL”.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 8:13 am
You know the state of the wide receiver in the NFL is pretty bad when you have to literally be shoot someone to be considered on the same level.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 8:23 am
Not a good sign when the same gun, that you told police never left you house, is found in a bucket at the same location where…ahem…you are….you got some splainin’ to do Ricky!!!
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May 3rd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Those quiet, shy guys, you cant trust them.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
“Huh, onanygivensunday. That’s weird. I could have sworn the headline read that Marvin Harrison was interviewed during the investigation, not Tony Dungy. Guess I need to suspend “judgement” on whether or not Harrison (Dungy?) is “guiltly” until I put on my reading glasses. Besides.. it’s the “christen” thing to do.
*snicker*”
kayc..Harrison may have been interviewed, but you also forgot to mention that he is under investigation for this shooting. I never said Dungy was under investigation or…guiltly. Looks like it’s time to get yourself an edjumacation.
By the way, would you put the same judgement on Belichick?
Oops, did I spell christian wrong? Thank the almighty Lord we have the spelling police around here. Here’s what I think about that: You are such a bore and a little old, but since you like to correct spelling errors, correct this, I’ll keep it clean…suleses oernps.
snickers? Who snickers? So persnickety…
*ROTFLMAOAY*
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