Happy 4th of July: Remembering Steve McNair

RIP

The punishment did not fit the crime

Rest in Peace

you will always be remembered and missed.

but glad I did, and caught this post. You see I grew up an oiler fan and literally cried when they left town. I remember telling people at my job that we had to get the kid from Alcorn State. I loved Steve Mcnair as the qb for my then team. I was truly saddened when he died, he was the first player I ever really wanted to play for my team before he actually did.

please don’t take this to mean, I have a soft spot for the titans, because I hate no team with more passion…except maybe the cowgals………wait no I hate the oilers worse. Jeff Fisher is a great coach and to me the only thing that ties this team to my town at all.

good luck this season titan fans…

GO TEXANS!!!

I loved the way he played and how tough he was. It seemed like he could play through almost any injury. I only got to see him play live once, and it was as a raven, but it was still nice. r.i.p.

I remember running to the car and turning on 104.5 The Zone and hearing George Plaster, who was supposed to be on vacation, and knew it was true.

I don’t remember anything about the movie, don’t even remember what movie it was, it’s been completely overshadowed in my memory of that day.

redeye to Manchester England. There were alota reasons that 8hr flight sucked (never take a 1 1/2 yr old on that flight!!), but not knowing what went down for the next 36 hrs was rough. I had bought my 3yr old nephew a #9 2yrs prior & when we got to my sisters house in Wales, he was wearing it. I almost cried. I spent the 1st day of my vacation glued to the internet.

Prayers for his family.

you will always be remembered by Titan fans

At the Fiddler’s Jamboree. I was back up there yesterday and actually saw a guy wearing a #9 jersey. It really caught me off guard.

What I would give to have #9 on this team right now.

i almost knocked over a few waiters trying to get to the bar to see the TV, after I got a text

In the middle of the reception my phone starts to blow up. The hardest thing about it was the groom and I had been talking football acouple of days before and he mentioned he was a old titans fan and that he lost respect for us when we did McNair wrong. I was thinking should I tell him, he ended up comming on the mike and saying a prayer for McNairs family with a tear in his eye.
I’m sure that Vince is doing something with that family right now, and may everyone be safe on this 4th of July , make sure to set aside a special firework in memory . Rest In Peace

but i remember where i was when i heard that steve mcnair had been killed. i was on a friend’s boat waterskiing. it completely ruined my day. i know that i’m a little late to the party here today, but i’ve still been paying my respects all year. i paid a kid on our football team 20$ for the number 9 jersey, i hung up my mcnair jersey in my room, and the signed photo has been framed. he was my favorite player ever and truly a nice guy. most of you have probably heard this, but i sat next to him on the plane from nashville to baltimore over christmas holiday a few years ago and he was the nicest guy ever. even though he knew i wasn’t a ravens fan, that’s who he was playing for at the time and he gave us free tickets to the ravens/colts playoff game and the regular season finale. i had the pleasure of meeting him a few other times as well, but it was really a special day for me on the plane.
100000000% yes on the statue,
here’s to a great man and a great legacy, we’ll always love you steve.

Steve McNair was a class act…and so are you. VY has got some mighty big shoes to fill…here’s to hoping he gets some “devine intervention”…kind of like that movie Angels in the Outfield…I could have sworn that on that last drive in the Cardinals game…he was there!!

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my old band, Sky Hi, was playing the opening week at a club that’s been closed down already, called Code Blue. All week they had guest celebrities come in as V.I.P.s, mostly current and former Titians.
during a set someone told us that Steve was in the crowd & he asked if we could play George Clinton’s “Atomic Dog.” We’re a funk band, but mostly we did the James Brown type stuff. We knew the song, but we didn’t know how to play the song. I told our bass player to play the dum da dum dum bassline & the drummer to just play your standard four on the floor P-funk beat, and me & whoever had a mic did a mix of p-funk lines from “atomic dog,” “we want the funk”, “shit, goddamn get off your ass and jam”, and whatever else we could think of. We even thew in the Lil’ John’s from the windows to the walls song for good measure, since the last time we saw p-funk they were covering that too.
anyways, we bullshitted our way through it as best we could. after the set was over i went to get a drink, and i saw steve chatting up a couple girls by the bar. i figured i’ld never get another chance at introducing myself to him, and even though i’m not one to cock-block, i approached him.
all i wanted to do was shake the man’s hand. he’s a legend in Nashville, and how could you call yourself a titans fan and not thank the man for all the sacrifices he made on the field. he was playing for baltimore at the time. i asked him if he liked our “atomic dog” and told him it was great to see him in nashville. he smiled and said it was great. like i said, i’m not one to cock-block, so i thanked him again and turned to get back to the stage. as i started to go he stopped me, reached in his pocket, pulled out a wad of cash, and handed me the top bill, a benji! i can’t describe how happy i was!
say what you want about him, but i don’t think there’s another guy out there as classy and nice as mcnair. it wasn’t just the way he gave up his body on the football field, but how he treated people as equals. i’ll remember that moment for the rest of my life. hell, i’ll probably tell my son about it when he’s old enough to appreciate it.
that’s my story, and there’s people all over nashville that have had similar experience when they were around the man. that’s why he’s a hall of famer to me, and i don’t need some fucking journalist in kansas city to tell me any different.
best wishes to the entire McNair family.