Ball Boys Better Recognize Marvin Harrison’s Personal Space
1-liner, NFL January 15th. 2009, 9:45amMarvin Harrison: “You threw the ball at me!” Harrison screamed. “You’re a professional! You should do your job better than that!” Everyone on the field froze. Prior asked Harrison to back away. Instead, Harrison grabbed Prior by the throat and lifted him off the ground. While fans watching on the stadium’s video screen chanted for their ball boy to fight back, players and workers tried to separate the two. As Harrison argued with security, Prior was taken to a medical station, where marks were found around his neck. “This was a violent incident,” says Dan Santos, security manager at the Meadowlands that day. “Coaches tried to downplay it, but we were one step from making an arrest.” (ESPN the Mag)
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January 15th, 2009 at 9:48 am
This was another episode of…”When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong!”
January 15th, 2009 at 9:49 am
So basically Marvin Harrison will NEVER get arrested. I’m glad I live in a country where celebrities are never held accountbale because, you know, everyone is just out to get them because they’re celebrities.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:51 am
“23 year old ball boy”
Cosmo Kramer?
January 15th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Eric Mangini?
January 15th, 2009 at 9:53 am
It’s always the quiet ones.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Harrison grabbed Prior by the throat and lifted him off the ground
I’m calling BS. Unless Prior is the size of McLovin’, Marvin isn’t lifting him off the ground by his thoat.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:54 am
If all these stories are true – and i have no reason to believe they are not – this guy will not live to see his 50th birthday. Somebody, somewhere will be the wrong guy to piss off and he’ll get blown away.
I wish that ball “man” had pressed charges. Not sure why he didn’t. Wonder if he got some money to keep it under wraps.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Harrison fascinates me. So it looks like he’s as gangster as anyone in professional sports, yet he has the smarts and the restraint to lay low all these years.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:01 am
the ball “man” probably got promoted by the NFL to a loftier status than ball “man” and stayed quiet
January 15th, 2009 at 10:02 am
To be an NFL great at WR, do you have to be atshit crazy? Irvin, Ocho-Cinco, T.O., and Harrison. At this point, I’m sure that Jerry Rice caused the genocide at Darfur.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:04 am
its so funny to hear this because Harrison was the guy that was held up as the model citizen, especially at his position and now we are starting to find out he’s as big a dirt bag as the rest of them.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:13 am
These stories have been around for years, yet the media just refused to give them any attention. Is it the Colts’ “good guys” image? They could have easily reported these things before(ESPN), but chose to go with the ‘Marvin is a good guy because he doesn’t do touchdown dances’ angle. I really don’t get it.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:22 am
It would be nice if all media outlets could retain some form of objectivity when reporting the news, but outlets like ESPN have given in to the fan obsession over players like Favre, A-Rod, Romo/Owens. Their constant need to cover stories, especially non stories like owens/romo, leds to this kind of garbage.
In the case of Marvin Harrison, people just didn’t want to see the real story. His quiet solitude was the image of old school football players, but considering how many football players feel the need to give back to charities, have websites, blogs, his behaviour seems out of whack when you learn more about him.
/end of rant
January 15th, 2009 at 10:31 am
wil – Do you think 60,000 would be applauding the guy if they knew his real story?
Plax was an idiot and caught heat for it; Harrison’s just a prick, and has caught no heat.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Wait a minute, TBL points out a double standard that isn’t about white/non-white?!?
The end is nigh!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:51 am
my conspiracy theory: harrison is laying low and has stayed away from the spotlight throughout his career because he’s a gangster overlord and has a huge organized crime family working for him.
/craziness
January 15th, 2009 at 10:52 am
TBL: People will probably still cheer for him, just the way people still cheer for Barry Bonds. It’s when the sports “reporters” and “analysts” give into the same blind love fans have for a player and don’t feel the need to report the stores as they are.
Think about it. Had it been a player with the rep of Owens or Pacman, everyone would know about these incidents before the charges are dismissed.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:54 am
/finished thought…damn work getting in the way of TBL…
January 15th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I can’t help but think that the two incidents we’re talking about here are [choking a 23 year old whom he thought threw a ball at him SIX YEARS AGO] and [shooting a gun at an ex-convict in a dangerous neighborhood where he owns a business]. The first incident – meh, it happens. Guys lose their temper. The second incident is a heck of a lot more severe, but couldn’t it also be that he was just protecting himself and his business? The article makes it clear that the gun he carries is registered. And we don’t know what kind of people come in and out of there. It could be that carrying a gun is completely necessary around there.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:00 am
I’d say it’s more likely that he’s just a thug, Happy.
/Easy way out’d
January 15th, 2009 at 11:03 am
@Happy — Read the entire ESPN article. Those aren’t the only incidents.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
I agree. Ef that guy.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Harrison fascinates me. So it looks like he’s as gangster as anyone in professional sports, yet he has the smarts and the restraint to lay low all these years.
its so funny to hear this because Harrison was the guy that was held up as the model citizen, especially at his position and now we are starting to find out he’s as big a dirt bag as the rest of them.
Sounds like a description of Whitney Houston
/crack is whack’d
January 15th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I see one more – taking a swing at an autograph-seeker that was bothering him 4 years ago a few days before the Pro Bowl. No charges filed. Another meh
January 15th, 2009 at 11:18 am
I like this picture.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2460462456_fb58c527db.jpg
January 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
If Marvin Harrison was some white small business owner in West Bubblefuck Ohio somewhere shooting at some 5′10″ 270 pound Negro ex con for invading his place of business, he’d be looked at as a hero alas Bernhard Goetz.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
White small business owner is NOT allowed to, after getting in an argument with someone, chase them down the street and fire shots at them as they are driving away.