steve mcnair dead

Awesome news on Saturday afternoon in the world of sport as the old part of the Tennessee Titans Steve McNair was shot in Nashville. 


Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair: 1973-2009. (AP Photo) 
Here is a link to the story in the Tennessean, a statement which was also identified the woman was found dead on the scene in a downtown condominium. 

Gun violence - and violence - are difficult problems in this country and McNair's death, at age 36, is another sad reminder. 

It is disturbing to recall now that McNair was arrested for illegal possession of weapons in May 2003 when a 9 mm pistol was found in his car when it was shot during a drunk driving sentence d. 

McNair will be best remembered for the conduct of the Titans to their only Super Bowl in 2000, when its last phase of the liquidation proceeds of hunting inches below a game winner against the Rams touchdown when Kevin Dyson was tackled to the finish line with time expired. 

McNair also was co-MVP of the NFL with Peyton Manning in 2003. And, yes, was a pioneer among black Quarterbacks in professional football, as shown in this Baltimore Sun story after his retirement from the Ravens in 2008. 

Mike Freeman of cbssports.com McNair recalls in this column as a kind of class you always wanted to know how you were doing instead of vice versa. 

Less remembered is the fact that it was a very good athlete who will be chosen by the Seattle Mariners in the 35th round of 1991 as a short-Mount Olive High School in Mississippi. 

RIP, Steve McNair, another who died too young.