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The muddled circumstances surrounding Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison's invovement in a shooting last week are slowly coming together. The facts: it was Harrison's gun that was used; six casings from his gun were found; Harrison was interviewed and had a fistfight with a man; some people got shot.
The witnesses and victims of the alleged crime are still being pieced together. According to some police sources, there are a lot of conflicting stories surfacing, some as a result of individuals hoping to shake down and cash-in on Harrison's celebrity. But that's expected as soon as a millionaire athlete caught with a gun in a not-so-nice neighborhood happens.
According to one source close to the story, more revelations about Harrison's character and background — disturbing, American Gangster-like stuff — are also percolating as a result of this incident. Although Harrison has been deemed one of the consumate professionals in the NFL due to his quiet nature and workman-like approach to his game, it's appearing more and more that Harrison mayhave a very dark side to his private nature that few people knew about.
Yesterday, WIP's Howard Eskin alluded to those facts on the air yesterday before he was yelling about blogs:
I have heard many things about Marvin and I am shocked. I don't want to get into it but it shocks me. I've heard too many things, I heard things which shocked me."I do know this. [Somebody he[Harrison] knows had $10,000 confiscated. He went back to the police station and said, that's my money. . . . Two detectives have told me that. I don't want to get into it any deeper. Doesn't that present a lot of questions to you, too?
Now, as much as Eskin is a blustery asshole on air at times, he's also not reckless and does his due dilligence when it comes to stories of this nature. Also, what Eskin said is consistent with some of the stories being corroborated by a few people close to the investigation.
The take-away: Next week prepare to hear some more things about Marvin Harrison that might erase most of the good-guy persona he's cultivated in the NFL. According to one prominent national television reporter, if Harrison gets charged in this case, all of the dirty laundry that many people have been sifting through will be revealed.
Marvin Harrison? Really? [Deadspin]
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Howdy Mr. Vick.
You draft a guy one time in fantasy football, and his entire life falls apart shortly after.
It's just like when I took Marinovich in '92.
The whole Colts team probably has an incredible dark side. If all this stuff about Marhar is true, one can only imagine what atrocities Peyton has going on.... or Tony Dungy...
These are the moments I'm glad Steven A. Smith only screams about basketball.
That's a very Michael Irvin-esque expression on his face.
Makes me glad a good guy (at least I think he's a good guy) and a great receiver like Art Monk finally got into the Hall.
But did you hear what Art Monk likes to do to mosquitoes? It's grisly, actually. Smacking them so hard they sometimes explode from the impact!
grab yo clocks when you see marvin harrison, call the cops when you see marvin harrison.
I'm pretty sure he also has a fish fighting ring.
And you think you know a total stranger you've only seen catch a football on television...
What are you doing with the gun, Dr. Marvin?
This whole thing has to end with Peyton Manning killing a snitch. It has to.
The signs were all there, had we just read his Myspace page.
Ahh, those former Syracuse athletes. If they're not pissing in restaurants or driving drunk, they're busting caps in someone's ass.
Go Orange!
@FEAST: I don't think grabbing one's "clock" would do much.
/"glock"
Indiana: bringing professional athletes and guns together since ... well, pretty damn recently.
Well, I gotta say, I'm shocked. I wonder how WIP's Howard Eskin feels.
...all of the dirty laundry that many people have been sifting through will be revealed.
"Um, before you go rooting around in there..."
- Najeh Davenport
The man I worked for had one of the biggest team in Indianapolis. He didn't own his own team...white man owned it, so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though!
so it might be that loud mouths aren't the real thug WR's in the NFL, just the gay ones?
@Gourmet Spud: That would be the greatest development ever in professional sports.
Peyton Manning grew suspicious of his receiver's dark side when he found The Art of War in Marvin's locker, but Harrison assured him it was just a book of paintings made by holocaust survivors.
The Dallas Cowboys are suddenly interested in acquiring Harrison for a few conditional picks.
@McNutty: shit. clocks? what? damnit.
@FEAST: glocks?
@McNutty: thank you.
I couldn't tell - was Eskin shocked?
"I'm Howard Eskin, and I am an asshole"
/WIP sucks
@McNutty: you could throw it, you know. my alarm clock is pretty heavy. could do some damage.
Eskin might want to cancel that flower delivery to Marvin's house.
all of the dirty laundry that many people have been sifting through will be revealed.
So Harrison is throwing his hot dog down Star Jones' hallway too?
@thejackclarkfive: i'm not shocked that i wasn't the first to ask that
@McNutty:it works for Flav.
The conclusion to this saga will read: "We find the defendant, Dallas Clark, guilty..."
@Kccal: Peyton is not so bad. I just cant understand why he stays with his gay lover after what Kenny did with all those little Asian boys.
"Aw, man, Marvin shot me in the face."
Apparently he was kicking it with Stephen Jackson before he went to Oakstradam.
@Johnny LaRue: I knew there was a joke in there! hahaha
Just for the record, Howard Eskin once sent flowers to a woman he met in a chat room. When her husband found out, he killed her. So let's not get too comfy on that soapbox, King.
It's times like this that Tony Dungy sits back and reflects on how much he misses the icy professionalism and steely leadership of Steve Emtman.
@McNutty: You are obviously not familiar with Dr. Dre's 9mm Patek Philippe.
It's always the quiet ones.
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Maybe you have one of these.
@Phony Gwynn: Quentin Coryatt would like to remind you he's old school.
I do know this. [Somebody he[Harrison] knows had $10,000 confiscated.
Man, the rare double-bracket. You don't see that too much these days. That's how you know some hot shit is about to go down.
@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: And man was the '92 draft a big sack of shit; Troy Vincent was the only solid player to come out of that first round.
@Phony Gwynn:
Chill out man, I told you it was an accident, probably went over a bump or something.
@Kccal:
For pre-game motivation, Jeff Saturday kills a hobo with a hammer.
@Jen P: The fact that you can sully a particular university's reputation without having to mention Jim Brown is quite impressive. Quite impressive, indeed. Not sure what it says about said university, though.
Lil Ronnie is already working on a single.
can you please be more vague?
@CIALIS COOPER: Sully went to UMass-Amherst, but only for two semesters.
@millensdraftskills: I'll spell it out, then: Marvin Harrison had an affair with Debbie Clemens.
Reggie Wayne is no doubt enjoying a productive crime spree while the cops focus all their attention on Marvin.
@millensdraftskills: Seriously. Never has so much been alluded to more obliquely.
Kevin Slaten is calling Eskin to find out how to sandbag someone on the air and still keep your job.
@Dead Wrestlers Society: Working on a single? Li'l Ronnie is intimately involved in this kerfuffle. He's the second shooter.
Is this supposed to be telling me something?
@starksgotejected: How many times has an NFL team's WR shot somebody and it turned out it WASN'T the one from Miami?
@ArkansasFred: Holy crap.
I looked that up because I thought you had to be joking. Wow.
Is this dirty laundry of Leon Lett persuasion?
Marvin Harrison = Marlo Stanfield?
Thank God he's just a gangsta, and not, you know, gay or anything.
Otherwise, he might get benched.
Marvin has been smuggling opium into the country in the caskets coming from Afghanistan.