There has been none of that here. The paparazzi stalk Tom Brady more when he takes walks with Gisele. Harrison hasn't been seen, nor has he said a word. The Colts haven't said much, either.
The latest report is that Harrison isn't a suspect in the shooting for now, according to a police spokesman, although the bullets recovered from the scene reportedly came from a gun registered to him. That doesn't mean he did the shooting. He owns a bar. Bar owners keep guns. If there was a disturbance with an over-zealous patron, the gun could have come out, with someone other than Harrison doing the shooting.
If so, the shooter did his friend or employer or relative or whoever Harrison is to that person a big disservice by putting him in the middle of it all.
The first report indicated Harrison actually had a fistfight with the 23-year-old gunshot victim, beating the snot out of him, before the shooting took place. On some message boards, that's viewed as a shock. They see a rail-thin NFL player and wonder if the reports could be true. Is Harrison a ninja?
Again, what people don't know is Harrison is a product of the tough streets of North Philly. He still has a lot of that in him. Beating the daylights out of somebody shouldn't be a shock. Some say Harrison still has too much street in him, that he is too loyal to the older neighborhood.
He does return to Philadelphia most Sundays after games and doesn't come back to Indianapolis until late Tuesday. He also spends most of his offseason in Philly.
It's home. It's where he grew up. That's understandable. He has family there. Plus, he's giving back to the neighborhood, helping put businesses in an area that probably needs them.
Having said all that, Harrison needs to be careful about staying too true to the fellas. That's how problems happen. Just ask Vick. His boys helped land him in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Loyalty is not worth spending a few years staring at cell bars rather than facemask bars, and loyalty is a word that those who know him say is a big part of who Harrison is as a person. He's far too loyal to the old friends. Once he allows you into his inner circle, those who know him say he can be trusting and warm. Until then, he is aloof and standoffish, which creates the Marvin Mystique.
He isn't one to hang out with his Colts teammates, although there are a few who are his friends. Harrison is closer, sources say, with some of the team personnel, like a trainer or an equipment man, which says something about him as a person. He doesn't care about titles or status or paychecks, which is a nice side.
What we know for sure about the incident is Harrison was one of several people questioned about a shooting that resulted with the victim being shot in the hand. There was a report that police sources said the six bullet casings found at the scene were from Harrison's gun.
Somebody he knows, whether it's the guy staring back at him in the mirror or not, did the shooting. Could it be Harrison? Of course it can. It's his gun. It might not be him, either.
But let's stop this talk about how none if it sounds like Harrison should be involved, that this isn't the Marvin Harrison we know. How well do we really know him? How well do we really know any of our athletes? How well do we know anybody?
