But Marvin remains my favorite Colt. I met him in 2002 and I’ve been a huge fan since.

They write these stories to get at people like you. Just ignore them and lets concentrate on the here and now. Who cares what happened then? We’re in the playoffs! I expect more than one article breaking down our game. Instead we get chris johnson, marvin harrison and terry bradshaw.

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but decided against it. Mr. Sharp seems to be doing trying his best to piss Colts fans off. I really didn’t even read Sharp’s write up. As soon as I saw his name, I dismissed it.

to think that maybe, just maybe, the reason their aren’t any non-incarcerated eye-witnesses is because anyone who has anything to lose knows better that to get involved in street crime as a snitch?

but instead of relying on character assassination, i would like bbs to explain, in a rough speculative way of course, how some of these other facts jive with marvin being 100% clean in all this, meaning he not only wasn’t the shooter:

in the article, it points out that marvin told the police that the gun which ballistics linked to the casings found at the scene a) was never left his home until the he brought it to the car was the exact same morning the cops came to question him and b) he had not fired it since “Probably the day that I bought it” in “2006 or 2007”.

so start with a). if a) is truthful, then b) is most certainly a lie, because the gun was used as during the shooting, as ballistics tests prove. if b) is truthful, that means someone else fired the shots with marvin’s gun at a place that is not marvin’s home, out of mavin’s possession, which makes a) a lie. there is absolutely no way both a) and b) can be true. please show that statement to be untrue, if you can. you can dismiss these other characters as low lifes, but marvin himself can hardly be seen as credible since he clearly lied to police himself, unless someone can reconcile the ballistics findings with what marvin told police.

then, from a police source, not some sketchy inmate, we find that the security camera at playmakers, which would make it marvin’s security camera, had been tampered with at precisely the moment when the shooter who murdered a man who tried to snitch on marvin would have become recognizable. take that “coincidence” and put with the gun, which harrison claims is always locked up safe at home, being found hidden behind a trash can on the floor the day after it was used in the first shooting, and at some point you really have to wonder.

this quote:

Marvin Harrison did not shoot anyone because there is not evidence that points to Marvin Harrison shooting anyone.

is simply stunning for it’s logical incoherence, unless you are simply that naive about how high-priced lawyers work. that line of reasoning could be used for the defense of every top level mafioso in history. there is often a vast gulf between what happens during a crime and what can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law when a superstar attorney is in go mode.

even if marvin wasn’t the trigger man (only eye witnesses can tell us that) that still stops way short of explaining away how his gun, which he claims was always in his possession, was used in the crime.

i’m not trolling, i’m not being inflammatory. but if you are going to dismiss all of this on the basis of unreliable witnesses, you also should spend some time evaluating the claims not based on shady testimony. i will await a calm, rational response from bbs, that addresses both a scenario which could make marvin’s statements to the police anything but untruthful, and also lays out a scenario where marvin’s enemy was shot with the gun that marvin claims uninterrupted possession of without marvin having any involvement in or knowledge of the event whatsoever.

His prose was gagingly awful at times. I read the whole thing and at times wondered how this guy got a job in the first place. It was on the level of some college newspaper pieces I’ve seen.
There is a reason this guy writes for GQ and not the Post or the SunTimes, you know, establishments that employ writers known for their investigative journalistic abilities.
This guy is a Carl Bernstein wannabe.

I dunno… just a light skimming of the article just reminded me of the Wayne Brady sketch on Dave Chappelle’s show. I never knew Marvin was living the Wayne Brady dream….

I say we embrace it, cause the true story is just boring. :)

Totally kidding ;)

It is not a surprise that if Marvin Harrison did those crimes, that he wasn’t caught. Because we all know, Marvin Harrison cannot be caught.

The Philly PD had an epidemic of broken legs that almost bankrupted the city?

Its true… if you try to catch Marvin Harrison, he will break your ankles.

I read the article, and I must admit that the author is a “piece of shit” if for no other reason than he called everyone else a “piece of shit”.

That being said, I think Marvin probably did shoot at Dixon (I don’t think he murdered him, or put a hit out on him for that matter.) Do I blame him, shit no. They got into a fist fight, the dude was known to pack heat, and Marvin probably feared for his safety while the crazy bastard had him cornered in his carwash. Plus I live in South Dakota, that’s how we roll in the Wild Wild West…

I’ve been busy awhile, so this is my first site visit in some time, but I just watched the piece on SportsCenter, then read all this, and I can’t help but shake my head in disappointment at the lack of journalistic integrity ESPN has. BBS is an in-your-face, express-his-opinion-no-matter-what-you-think type of blogger, which can be obnoxious at times, and fantastic at other times, but the fact that he absolutely schooled ESPN and OTL on this is just concrete proof that ESPN has officially lost all credibiltiy as a journalism source.

The interview w/ Dwight Dixon was so ridiculously stupid, I thought they had already skipped to “Not Top 10.” So now Harrison walked towards him with TWO guns firing. I’m guessing Dixon saw Training Day the day before the interview, and decided to base his story on Denzel Washington’s character in that movie. And then they insinuate that he was Dixon’s murderer…really? Wow. And not once did the reporter ask anything about how he was a convicted felon, had been accused of lying to police on SEVERAL occasions, and how the DA pretty much ruled his story and witnesses out as complete BS. Instead, they pampered the guy because Marvin Harrison liked to say, “No Comment” a lot. The nerve…Way to report the “facts,” ESPN.

When all is said in done, I am certain that Marvin was somehow involved in the first incident. whether he was the shooter or not. It was his gun, it was in his area, and he did whoop the shit out of Dixon shortly before the incident. Yet, if anything, if he even did fire the gun, all signs point to self defense from a crazed former convict trying to run him down. Absolutely no evidence has been uncovered that suggests Harrison fired the gun, even if he did, and absolutely NOTHING suggests that Harrison did anything in cold blood, because that is just stupid.

The GQ article is well written, but when you rely on a witness deemed not credible, then yeah, your credibility is out the window. Yet, ESPN is still the villain here, and until they uncover any evidence at all, they are all tools. Yet they continue to report rumors without reporting anything that suggests Harrison is innocent, like, you know, that he was never once considered a suspect, but that’s cool. Keep it up ESPN. I hate to play the race card, but BBS is 100% on about the Roethlisberger comparisons. Literally the exact same reports from both incidents, but they refuse to cover Roethlisberger’s, but slam the accelerator with Harrison. Just absolutely classless. I wish another sports network were available to watch.