In the “punch in the face” thread, I said he needs to be put in a wheelchair. Now I feel bad…
Didn’t want him to die, I just wanted him to ‘feel tha pain’, as it were.

R.I.P. if it’s true

well, it is on ESPN now so I guess its official

I can still remember thinking to myself when we drafted Ben “now we’ve got our own McNair.”
As much as I hated seeing him twice a year in Houston and later in B-more, he was a very much respected opponent.
My prayers go out to his family and friends.

He was one of my favorite players in the NFL. I loved Steve as a person and player.
I can’t stop crying. This is too much.

Farewell Steve

R.I.P. Steve, even though you were the “Stilla Killa.”

There are some guys you just hate to play because you know they’ll fight and scratch and claw for 60 minutes. McNair was one of them. He reminded me of Ben in some ways. Didn’t always look pretty, took a lot of shots, wasn’t a great scrambler but you couldn’t get him down. He was tough as nails and he always seemed to keep his team in the game. He could look like crap all afternoon but when he had to make a play he usually made it. I never liked him because he made so many of those plays against us. If he’d been a Steeler, though, I would have loved him.

Who play the game like it should be played, down in the mud, hard, and fighting for every inch. The prima donna QB’s of this league should take a note from this guys career, he was true heart and power on the field, and i had major respect for him as a player

RIP McNair……its never the way you want to see a guy go

That’s a rough day for a Titans fan or Ravens fan.

As a Steeler fan you have to respect this guy, even if that respect comes with a side of hate. Truly a warrior.

He was a QB who played the game with real grit. I always thought he would be that old QB that would surface every now and again and share some stories about being in the trenches. Thats the perspective I want, somebody who battled every week and had to be dragged from the game when it was his time to retire.

R.I.P. Mr.McNair

McNair was a great face for the game. Said the right things, played hard and won, a great leader.

Along with Tom Brady, Steve McNair was THE Steeler Killer during the last decade. He was the QB I didn’t want to face. Granted we pounded him the last time we saw him with Baltimore in James Harrisons coming out party but Air was at the end of his career. He had a knack for making the big play at the end to win the game (except in the SB against the Rams) and regularly provided beat downs to my beloved Steelers.

News outlets are reporting that the young woman found with him may have been his “girlfriend” and I read one report that her ex boyfriend reported that she thought Steve was going to leave is wife and kids and take care of her. Apparently both their names were on the lease of the townhouse where they were found and both names were on the 2007 Escalade that she drove around TN in. Apparently she and Steve were pulled over a couple days ago and she refused the breathalizer stating “I’m high, not drunk.” McNair was aloud to leave the scene as he was a passenger and she was reportedly detained. Some think she may have killed him and then herself. The amount of bullets found in McNair plus the head shot tells me whoever murdered him was in a fit of rage about something. In bitter irony I also read that Sahel Kazami (the girls name) translates her last name in Arabic to mean “one who controls their anger” or something like that.

I have to say that I really respected McNair as a player. It is disappointing that he was “shacked up” with a young waitress while married with young children. It goes to show that we should not worship our sports idols, politicians or anybody. McNair, Brady, Roethlisberger, Polamalu are human beings and we are all fallible. Better to hold yourself in high esteem and be the best person that you can be. RIP Air McNair. You did not deserve your fate. I send condolences to your wife, children and family and those that loved you.

I agree with a lot of your responses. McNair was a pain in my rear end on the field. He become a Steeler killer. However, the coach in me made me respect the heck out of him. He wasn’t flashy or pretty but he got the job done with regularity. He was a smart player. He came from division II, picked up the game and adjusted to the speed very quickly. On the personal level, I never heard anything in the media of off field problems. As far as the deal with the young lady, I’m not going to point a finger. I have done things (not spectulating on what he’s done) that could have easily ended the same way for me. I hate for anyone to have their life end this way. My prayers go out to his family and the family of the young lady.