How well do we really know the distant Harrison?

ATVZ400 · May 7, 2008

http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/10815627

When the news hit last week that Indianapolis Colts receiver Marvin Harrison might -- and let me stress might here -- be involved in a shooting near his North Philadelphia business, one of the first things that people had to say was this:

That doesn't sound like the Marvin Harrison we know.

Lt Dan · May 7, 2008

Good points made there

alen1 · May 7, 2008

There were very good points in that article. I never thought about it to be honest. He was always portrayed to be a class act and I always thought he was. The following quote(s) made me re-think that though (Note: It has not changed my opinion on him but it does cause curiosity) :

What they don't see is a player who openly pouts when he doesn't get the football, although Harrison does indeed do that. Watch him during a game. Harrison sits by himself when the offense isn't on the field, away from his offensive teammates, and his body language seems to worsen when the passes aren't coming his way. I've seen it with my own eyes. Yet his reputation is that of a stand-up guy, not one of those look-at-me receivers.

See, we don't know him.

Harrison is just like the other players at his position. He wants the ball and when he doesn't get it, he's not happy about it. Harrison just doesn't go to the media to complain about not getting the football. In fact, he avoids the media for the most part, which leads to the mystery of the man.
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Even though he pouts when he doesn't get the ball ( I don't think its a good thing btw), he doesn't go to the media. You have to like that he doesn't open it up to the press and raise hell like Chad Johnson, Owens and Moss do.

All in all, he is a really mysterious person that you have to respect what he has done ON the field.

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