So, is mental instability a prerequisite for awesome Wide Receiver skills?

I’ve been waiting to speak on the Marvin Harrison thing. It was salacious for the sake of salacious in its initial thrust. But now it’s different. Now here might be the new Michael Vick, in that mainstream sports media needs a salacious story to feed the beast.

Marvin Harrison is someone whos gun was used in a shooting of a man who was kicked out of his bar. Not only that? Marvin just got into a fistfight with the man. Not only that? It was a .50 caliber handgun with armor piercing bullets. Not only that? There’s a mystery second man who was supposedly shot by Marvin.

Not only that? But Deadspin’s saying there’s a possibility that Marvin Harrison could be a modern day Frank Lucas. I’m still going to not pass judgement on Mar-Har. There’s probably not enough evidence to convict anyway.

And, a quick lesson for the mainstream media? Silence does not equal goodness.

But here’s the thing. If you want to be a true Receiver superstar? You need to pull shit like this. Really. You be great without it.

But you’ll never be a superstar.

At the very least? You need to have the ego of Narcissus. A Chad Johnson or a Terrell Owens can tell you that much. If you have sociopathic tendencies? All the better.

If you have a bit of bloodlust? There’s no problem. Steve Smith and Randy Moss clocked more than their fair share of bitches.

Greed? Please! From Laverneus Coles stealing shit to Joey Galloway, Chad Johnson, Randy Moss, Javon Walker, Anquan Boldin, Larry Fitzgerald, Torry Holt, Terrell Owens, and I could go on and on.

Greg Jennings? You see the bar. I demand a drug fueled crime spree. It will make you millions.