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The difference between the Plaxico Burris situation is that his gun was unlicensed, and it occurred DURING THE SEASON...

Harrison's gun is legal, it occurred during the off-season, and they don't have enough evidence to prosecute.

The name's Jerkhoff, thank you. And note that I have not resorted to profanity, unlike yourselves. If you can't take the heat, don't read the comment pages.

Oh, and I am sure that Marvin Harrison would find gainful employment elsewhere. Just not with a head coach who claimed to be a paragon of virtue...

Jerkoff,
You've made your point, several times now. So, again, STFU.
BTW, if the Colts had suspended Harrison, then the Cowboys would have been happy to sign him. He would fit right in there, along with Pacman, TO, et al, so don't act like the Colts are the only team to ever tolerate a bad boy player.

I don't even think that the Marvin Harrison situation would bother me so much if it weren't for the statements that Tony Dungy is a "man of faith" whose "deep religious convictions" and "sense of a higher calling" is "more important than football" (all quotes are from the above article). And yet he cannot bring himself to bench a player who has brazenly forfeited his right to step onto an NFL playing field. Coach Dungy would rather win than do the morally right thing, so he stood behind the fig-leaf of the DA's (non-)investigation. The Colts reaped their just deserts with their early exit from the playoffs.

I'll tell you, if Marvin Harrison was a Giant, he would have never played another down for the team after the shooting. Tom Coughlin has just demonstrated this fact clearly and eloquently. For that matter, the most reviled and despised coach in this league, Bill Belichick, wouldn't have hesitated to sit Marvin Harrison right down where he belonged -- at the end of the bench next to the water cooler, where he could meditate on what it means to be a professional football player...

Let's contrast Tony Dungy's handling of the Marvin Harrison situation with Tom Coughlin's handling of Plaxico Burriss. Burriss didn't shoot anyone except himself, but he was immediately removed from the team for the remainder of the season. One could argue that Coach Coughlin's courageous decision cost him a Super Bowl, but here's the point. Coach Coughlin has INTEGRITY...

And VMRG, I would like you to give me your explanation of this fact, as stated in the article you linked to: Harrison claims he did not have his gun with him that day, and that he had not fired it since he bought it a year or two earlier. However, five bullet casings fired from this gun were recovered at the shooting site. All they had on OJ was a glove -- no sworn testimony, no bullet casings, no nothing -- yet Mr. Harrison walks free.

Here's the reality: Marvin Harrison was not charged with a crime because he was a member of the sainted Indianapolis Colts, while his accusers were men of questionable character. And this despite the physical evidence and sworn testimony identifying Harrison as the shooter. That's how they play the game in Tony Dungy's world...

Hey VMRG, here's a quote from your favorite DA:

At a news conference on Tuesday, Philadelphia D.A. Lynne Abraham said she would not bring charges against Harrison, citing a lack of credible witnesses. "I'm pretty comfortable I know who fired the gun," Abraham said. "But I'm not going to say because I don't have the evidence."

Marvin Harrison is as guilty as OJ, and EVERYONE knows it...

Here jerkoff:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3813507&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

Now STFU.

Here's a link for anyone who still has an open mind about Coach Dungy:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3826780

This story describes how the two men who were shot had had a previous altercation with Mr. Harrison two weeks prior to the shooting. Subsequently, both of these men were shot by Mr. Harrison's gun.

Mr. Harrison initially "told police he did not have the gun with him in Philadelphia on April 29 and that the weapon had not been fired in at least one year. Ballistics tests later confirmed that five spent bullet shells found at the crime scene came from Harrison's gun." In the altercation, two men were shot and a child sitting in a car had an eye injury caused by broken glass.

And according to the most moral and upstanding coach in the NFL, this criminal was deemed worthy to be a member of the Indianapolis Colts.

Good Riddance to Tony Dungy...

My claim of hypocrisy has nothing to do with Tony Dungy's relationship with his son. It concerns his decision to keep a player on his team who gunned down a man on the street like a dog. If you are a B-grade player who smokes marijuana, you are unfit to be a Colt. But if you are Marvin Harrison, anything goes. And this coach presumes to lecture the rest of the league on integrity. The same coach who, by the way, pumped amplified crowd noise into his stadium to drown out other teams' signal-calling. Tony Dungy is the very definition of the word Hypocrite, and I will be delighted to see the last of him...

Ditto on the first two posters. I didn't realize that they had Internet access at Day Care.

Thanks for the great game memories, Coach Tony. Watching your teams perform was always enjoyable, except when they were playing the Redskins, of course. We will be looking forward to your induction in Canton.

Dear Morons,

Please wait until puberty before you decide to go online and demonstrate to everyone how young and dumb you are. You should really avoid calling people hypocrites or commenting on things you have no personal knowledge of. Now, please go back to your coloring books.

both of these first comments are obviously from very narrow-minded idiots.

After years of neglect, his son committed suicide.... it is a bit late for Tony Dungy to make himself look like "father of the year"

Dear Saint Tony: Please don't let the screen door hit you on the way out. Now maybe you can go around curing lepers or turning water into wine, instead of being the NFL's biggest moralizing hypocrite...