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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Discretion, Discretion advised. |
0:15.0 | This is 10-minute murder. 36-year-old professional football player Steve McNair enjoyed a successful and lucrative career in the NFL. |
0:52.3 | The Houston Oilers drafted him third overall in 1995, |
0:56.9 | and two years later, he was named their regular starting quarterback when the team moved to |
1:02.0 | Nashville and was renamed to the Tennessee Titans. He was given the nickname Air McNair, |
1:07.8 | and played a total of 13 seasons in the NFL, 11 for the Titans, and two more with |
1:14.0 | the Baltimore Ravens, before he announced his retirement from football in 2007. |
1:19.8 | At the time of his retirement, Steve had been married to his wife, Michelle, for a decade, |
1:25.1 | and the two of them had two sons together. It's been a great ride, he said after his |
1:29.7 | last game, it's a sad, emotional day for me. I'm trying to do the best I can to hold it in, |
1:35.4 | but at the same time, I'm opening up a lot more doors for the future. I can become, now, |
1:41.2 | the father I need to be to my kids. However, Steve struggled to cope with moving away |
1:46.8 | from the fame and the sense of purpose that professional football had given him. So many pro athletes |
1:52.5 | focused on sports so much from the time they are kids until the time they retire, that once |
1:57.8 | they do retire, they can struggle to fit into the real world. |
2:01.6 | One of his former teammates later told the media, |
2:04.6 | quote, what people fail to realize is that when you make a transition away from the game, |
2:09.6 | emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually, you go through something, |
2:13.6 | you change, and you're constantly searching for something. Steve never got the chance |
2:19.6 | to adjust to his retirement. Only two years later, on the 4th of July, Steve's dead body was found |
2:26.9 | in the Nashville condo he rented. He had been shot to death, but he wasn't alone. Lying next to him, |
2:33.8 | there was another dead body belonging to 20-year-old Sahel Kazimi. |
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