
Days after my Manny induced hiatus from blogging (more on that another time), I find myself marveling at the way the media is portraying Steve McNair and disrespecting his family in the wake of his murder.
For the record, I heart McNair. He had the best teeth/smile ever, and he was the one QB in the NFL that came from an HBCU and did well. I remember watching him play on Saturdays when BET used to show black college football games (back when they had somewhat decent programming) and was all about seeing him win the Heisman in 93. He came in 3rd, but was drafted and went on to have a great career, punctuated by the Music City Miracle, and SB XXXIV.
Off the field, he was known as a great humanitarian who gave back to the community and was a family man. Thing about this-he's an ex football player, so his definition of family man may be a little different than what you or I may perceive to be ok. That aside-he's gone, and the disrespect is in the media and even from those (Brian Billick) who knew him is reaching a fever pitch.
According to the police, they are thisclose to ruling his death a murder-suicide. The perpetrator? A 20 year old Dave & Busters worker who told her family that after 5 months, McNair planned to leave his wife and move in with her-in a condo that he and a friend owned in Nashville. We are also expected to believe that the two were a "couple" and that she was his "girlfriend".
There is a serious problem with this. Somewhere in Mississippi, he has a WIFE and four children who are learning about his extramartial affair it seems, just as we are. How does a married man have a legitimate girlfriend? How does the word of a 20 year old who is clearly star struck usurp common sense?
It's disgusting. She has been given every ounce of benefit of the doubt by the media. Been portrayed as a jilted or wronged girlfriend as if her place in his life was bigger than the place his wife and family held. Why? Because she was allowed to drive an Escalade he owned? Or because she had access to the jump off pad he held with a friend? Somehow this becomes more important than a twelve year marriage? Interesting.
I'm not even a wife, but I can imagine that Mrs. McNair is in a world of hurt right now, and seeing her place in her husbands life diminished in the media can't be helping the situation. I'm starting to not believe anything I read about this situation. Why is it only the whore's side of the story is coming out in the press? Why is she being portrayed as the victim when she is likely the shooter? Why is she being shown so much respect, when her actions show just how little respect she had for life and the institution of marriage.
I know I'm just venting here, but I can't be the only person who notices the differences between the wife and the whore, and wonders if this isn't the reason she's being portrayed as something other than what she is-a homewrecker of the highest order.





