“Air” McNair: 1973 – 2009
by Luimbe • July 4, 2009 • sports
Steve McNair was the latest, and quite possible the last for a while, in a long line of black pro-football stars who played college ball at predominately black schools. He put up gaudy numbers at Alcorn State where he was nicknamed Air McNair and like so many black QBs before went to Alcorn State because major colleges wanted him to play defensive back.
He was a quarterback. The one quality any football fan remembers about McNair was that he played hurt, all the time. Bruised sternum, fracture in his hands, and sprains: if McNair could stand up, he would suit up. His 2003 Co-MVP season was a prime example as was his 13-3 playoff season in 2006.
Today, McNair was found, shot to death ,in a condo in downtown Nashville along with a currently unidentified woman in what police believe is a double homicide.
Steve leaves behind his wife Mechelle, four sons, the eldest, Steve Jr, who is a wide receiver and is scheduled to graduate from high school in spring of 2010 and attend college to play this fall. It will most likely be bittersweet without his father.
Update: As initially feared, the woman found with McNair was his 20 year old girlfriend Sahel Kamezi. Sure to get more ridiculous “Why do athletes cheat?” stories
I don’t think it is the “career of choice” for girls under 25. I would prefer not to assume that. In fact, statistics show more young women graduating from college today than young men. I think Steve made a variety of bad choices, the 1st being dishonest to his wife and 2nd going through the motions of a committed relationship with this woman (the joint car purchase being one example). The murder/suicide though? McNair didn’t deserve retribution of that level, no one does. Living here in Philly, the murder rate has been a real front page issue the last few years and many of the violent murders are crimes of passion. Knowing that should lead many to try not to expose themselves to situations like this.
Men cheating is nothing new–More importantly why is gold digging and stealing someones husband the career choice of most girls under 25 these days–lazy, selfish and completely unaware of anyones feelings but their own–what about his kids did she think about that? Obviously not–it was all about her-they said she was selling her furniture so she could move in–sounds like Steve got called on his little -I’m getting a divorce pick up line–this just shows how stupid she was –when a married man says he is getting a divorce and lays the poor me on a chick it is a pick-up line and he thought she was stupid enough to take the bait–and like most women with no moral value, dignity or brains she decided if she couldn’t have the golden goose she would destroy it-That’s the ultimate in selfishness–at least she took her self out too and saved the world from just another gold-digging ho-bag on the take–it is really to bad that Amy Fischer didn’t take her sorry, nasty, selfish, spiteful self out as well when she tried to blow Buttafucco’s wife’s face off–Why is anyone giving that messed up freaky B@#* a job–I could care less what that waste of a human life says about anything–other than when she is going to release the earth from her presence–take a lesson from Shitheel or whatever her name was Amy–if you fall for a line and then the guy wants nothing more to do with you–he done with you-you just weren’t worth anything more than a couple of wham bams–being stupid and loose is the ho-bags problem –it does not give ho-bags the right to kill a guy because someone used your own selfish stupidity against you–otherwise we could go ahead and kill all the Republicans for getting the wanna-bees to vote against their best interests by dangling the “you could be like us” carrot in the faces of the selfish and stupid.