Marvin Harrison - Murderer?

[iacas]

Uh, so apparently Marvin Harrison is a bad, bad guy.

http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/20...printable=true

I've read a few excerpts and I'll read the whole thing later on. If it's what I think I've read so far, yikes.

[DaSportsGuy]

They did a story on it on E-60. The interview they did with Robert Dixon convinced me.

I never knew Marvin Harrison was different off the field. I always saw him and thought of him the exact opposite of how Dixon viewed Harrison.

[Big_M]

Wow... read most of that article... very interesting. Nice DA's you guys have up there in Philly. Will be interesting to see if anything happens as a result of the civil suits. Also, interesting note about the many witnesses who have dissappeared through the years.

[iacas]

Nice DA's you guys have up there in Philly.

Who's "you guys"?

I'm like eight hours from Philly. I'm literally closer to Indianapolis (plus Bob Sanders is from Erie - a fact which the local media seems to enjoy shoving down everyone's throats...). I still haven't read the article yet. Shows how much I care about off-the-field stuff...

[nike_golf]

It sounds like the FBI is going to be looking into the whole thing now?

If the main witness that the GQ article was quoting for their story - would cooperate w/ the feds and tell them everything, along w/ the physical evidence already in place showing Harrison is at least involved in shooting a gun(s), then it's probably bad news for him.

[pxc]

As a Colts fan since 1995 this is very weird to me. Harrison was always strange in that he completely kept to himself and went out of his way to make sure no one knew anything about him. There was an article here locally in Indy a few years ago that tried to imply that he had always been debilitatingly shy and that that carried over into his conduct as a player. It looks like there was a lot more to it than that.

It isn't 100% clear that he ever actually did any shooting at this guy Pop, but it seems to me there's too much that links him to this story for him to be completely clean. It is really disappointing to read all this.

[kleraudio]

And yet we still religiously sit down on Sunday and watch these morons catch footballs, while corporate sponsors are raking in MILLIONS per minute.....

Im done watching football as of this past season. A bunch of no good (mostly, not all) thugs being paid so much money to make other fat white guys (again, mostly, not all) filthy rich, by getting the middle class (us, mostly) to buy up all the junk they are selling....

Dog killers, cheaters, murderers...... Great. Lets go watch some NFL...

No thanks

Too bad teachers, doctors, etc, people that change lives dont get millions and millions per year. Oh yea, theres no money to be made in that.

Jim

[jamo]

make other fat white guys (again, mostly, not all) filthy rich

Wait, the O-Linemen don't get paid much...

Actually, i'm a little surprised this hasn't gotten more media coverage. This is like the answer (not quite sure thats the right word) to Spygate, except Harrison doesn't play anymore, though he never actually retired, i think.

[kleraudio]

Fat white guys as in corporate management. The people that have the money which made the NFL the big corporate conglomerate that it is.....

Without toyota, ford, budweiser, miller, gmc, etc.... the nfl would not be what it is today.

Sorry bout the pissed off feeling of that last post. I just get so mad when I read that stuff. I mean Harrison was probably a role model to so many people.......

Jim

[iacas]

Fat white guys as in corporate management. The people that have the money which made the NFL the big corporate conglomerate that it is.....

I think he got that... He was being sarcastic. Hence the smiley.

[pxc]

I love the game of football too much to stop watching it. I don't like the way the NFL is run, but they supply the superior football product so I either justify or ignore what I don't like and go on watching.

And jamo you're right, Harrison never retired. He just very publicly stopped being a good football player so no one wanted him anymore.

I don't really see much correlation between this and spygate so I don't think I got your point there.

[madcityscott]

I don't know what's more remarkable: that Harrison was able to rise above the situation in which he was raised, or that he chose to return to it.

[murphmjm]

That just confirms my hatred for him as a new england fan was just all of these years.

[topspin4hand]

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Wow ... I don't even know where to begin with the sweeping statements...

Also, doctors do relatively well even though their compensation has dropped over the yrs.

[kleraudio]

Sweeping statement?? I think not, just take a look at most of those guys records, you wont call it a sweeping statement. And also, if your gonna quote me, can you please quote me where I apologized for sounding so pissed??

[topspin4hand]

Kleraudio, May I ask what percentage of NFL players do you believe have criminal records for you to use "most" or "mostly" ? There have been studies done on that question and accurate information has been published.

My problem was with your thinly-veiled suggestion that the facts point to "most" of the NFL's players are "murderers" etc. If you'd have gone with "spoiled" "overpaid" or "undeserved" then fine, that's your opinion. However, imo at least, the facts don't support what you imply and it's unfair to say otherwise with such a broad brush.

[kleraudio]

Nowhere did I say they are mostly "murderers", cmon, Im not 12. Im Not gonna argue here man, especially on the internet.

I just stopped watching football because of all the commercialism....... thats all...

Jim

[topspin4hand]

I just stopped watching football because of all the commercialism....... thats all...

I can accept that. In the grand scheme of things (that are really important), you're playing golf these days and I'm not!. Plus it's cold as a mutha where I live. Period.