The Philadelphia Daily News describes last week’s shooting in which Colts receiver Marvin Harrison has been questioned by police – for four hours – as puzzling.

Summary: A man – still unidentified, but we know he is convicted felon who was recently released from jail (per the video of Sal Pal after the jump) – goes to Marvin Harrison’s bar. A fistfight ensues. This man and Harrison “bicker” in the days following, but there’s no elaboration as to whether that was in the streets, on the internet, or at a ping pong tournament. About two weeks later, said man shows up at Harrison’s bar, and after Harrison escorts him outside, the man is shot in the hand, and another man was clipped in the shoulder. The shooter remains unidentified.

We now request a 10 second break while we put on, simultaneously, our detective, psychologist and fortune teller hats and attempt to form some thoughts on what the heck the bogglingly prolific wide receiver got himself into.

Perhaps the best reaction we’ve seen to Harrison’s situation is courtesy of Ashley Fox :

“Harrison is an enigma, always has been. Rarely does he let someone into his confidence. He doesn’t talk much to teammates, doesn’t do many interviews. During the season, Harrison lives in an apartment by himself near the Indianapolis airport. He is all business at the Colts’ training facility. He typically eats lunch in a media relations office. When Dungy ends practice, Harrison is the first one out the door. Same after games. He showers. He leaves. He picks up takeout for dinner and doesn’t socialize in Indianapolis. A lot of the time after home games, Harrison will take a late flight to Philadelphia. He is here a lot, here to see his son and his friends. He spends much of the off-season here and has tried to revitalize his old neighborhood.”

Onto our Q&A, chock full of febrile speculation:

Why haven’t the police released the name of the man who was shot?
Best guess – retaliation. Harrison’s probably protected in the neighborhood by everyone (including nefarious individuals?), and if the police released his name, he could get got (ahhhh, miss The Wire).
Why hasn’t the man told police who the shooter was?
See answer one. There aren’t going to be suspects until he talks. One might think that if a shooting took place at 5 pm, there might be witnesses … but we’re sure nobody saw anything.
Six shell casings from Harrison’s gun were found outside his bar. Was Harrison shooting to kill?
Outside of the fact that Harrison’s a lousy shot, we’ve read nothing leading us to believe the injured man fired any bullets. The gun? According to Sal Pal this morning: ” … [it's] a body-armor defeating handgun. It’s bullets could penetrate 48 layers of kevlar at 50 meters. This gun is designed to be a cop killer.”
Why would Marvin Harrison own a car wash and a bar in a seedy section of Philly?
To give back to his community and create jobs for people in his old hood? Sure. Or might it be a front of some sort? Nah, we’ve just probably seen too many TV shows.