Posted on 07/06/2009 11:09:00 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Steve McNair, dead by gun now in America, came out of Mount Olive, Miss., whose population still came up short of 1,000 when McNair made it to the Super Bowl with the Tennessee Titans in January 2000.
When I called the town hall that year, I asked the woman who answered the phone how long downtown was in Mount Olive.
"Eight blocks," she said. "Ten if you stretch it."
When I asked her about the biggest intersection in town, she said that the biggest intersection wasn't even in town.
"Biggest intersection in Mount Olive," she said, "is where [State Road] 35 meets [U.S.] 49."
But McNair made it out of there to become a Heisman Trophy candidate, even from a small school like Alcorn State; made it from there to the Titans, and eventually to the Rams' 1-yard line at the end of a Super Bowl game in Atlanta. McNair took his team down the field when it had a chance to upset the Rams and threw a ball to Kevin Dyson and Dyson ended up a yard short as time ran out, ended up a yard short of being a Super Bowl champion the way McNair did.
He was still as tough as anybody who ever played quarterback in the National Football League, famous for playing hurt, sitting out practices for months at a time just so he could play on Sunday. Finally, there was the Super Sunday when he nearly became one of those quarterbacks to take his team all the way down the field at the end, the way Eli Manning did one time for the Giants.
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Dead by gun?
DEAD BY GUN????
How about MURDERED?
This article is SO STUPID, and SO MAUDLIN, I couldn’t read much beyond that.
The guy is being Deified here in Baltimore by the sports goofs on the radio. You’d think he was the next Johnny U.
A 36 yo man screwing a 20 yo girl never has a good outcome.
Well Mr. Lupica, have you check the “gun deaths” in Obama land this weekend, where guns have been banned?
Gun free zones just happen to be the areas with the highest violent crime, because criminals exploit the obvious vulerability.
Is’nt Lupica another NY market sports bobblehead who takes time out from bitching about the Jets or the Yankees to sound intelligent by commenting on the culture. Get back to fellating A-rod you jock sniffing a*shat.
Mike Lupica is a jackazz....
Let’s not talk too much about McNair cheating and putting himself in that situation with a 20 yr old. Did he mess around with her for the sex and finally tell her he had enough?...angered...vulnerable...used...
SO if she used a knife does Lupica write about a knife problem in our Country?
His messing around with a crazy chick had nothing to do with it. It’s the gun’s fault.
Note to everyone: you cheat, you risk death. This was not about the gun, it was about the “other” brain.
An elderly (relatively speaking) man with a mistress half his age. Like falling in love with your best friend’s wife, this has been the plot of a whole lot of plays and operas.
Prudence dictates that you shun behavior that has been the subject of a whole lot of plays and operas.
My wife adds that women half your age are bad for your back if nothing else.
Pretty sure that murder is a felony, and a capital punishment in many States. Didn’t stop anyone that has been convicted of it.
My read:
If you are married and dating another woman, telling that woman you are going to get a divorce but never do so...
you are playing a VERY dangerous game. Could have been poison, could have been a knife, could have been your wife, when she finds out....
Mike Lupika is too gay to be a sports writer
If Steve had a gun, he might be alive today.
Loopy-ca is one of those sportswriters...’xcuse me...”journalists” who decided to become “relevant.”
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