The McNair eulogy: R.I.P.U.S.O.B.
McNair’s fans and friends send him off sanz criticism for running around on his wife with a crazy person.
So.. … the coach and the fans and the friends and the pastor chose to ignore the cheating and the murder-suicide part, and just focus on the football:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The hit Steve McNair took to his chest in September 2000 had the NFL quarterback ready to quit the game. It caused him so much pain he spent a bye weekend with the team’s former chaplain in Houston. Then McNair, who struggled to breathe, watched his backup knocked out of the Titans’ next game.
“He turned and looked at me and winked,” Titans coach Jeff Fisher recalled Thursday night at a memorial service for the slain quarterback. “He grabbed a ball, threw it twice and ran on the field. Four plays later, he throws a touchdown pass to Erron Kinney and we win by three points.” …
Ugh …
… Fans lined up starting Thursday morning to view McNair’s closed silvery-gray casket at a funeral home and later outside the church. A helicopter provided live TV footage as McNair’s body was moved by hearse, and three of four local TV stations showed the memorial service live.
Apparently, McNair’s widow listened to as much as she could take:
The pastor reminded the congregation of how Jesus told those without sin to cast the first stone when people wanted to kill an adultress. He urged those who talk about McNair to drop their stones because everyone makes mistakes. He also spoke to McNair’s wife, who later left walking up the aisle wearing sunglasses.
“You have inspired us all to endure hardship as a good soldier,” Walker said.
Good soldier? Mark Sanford’s wife is a good soldier. Something tells me that had Mrs. McNair gotten wind of her husband’s extra-carricular activities before his mistress took them both out, there would have been nothing “good” about it (not everyone buys that Michelle McNair didn’t know about her husband’s 20-year-old Iranian girlfriend, but I think it’s plausible, given the amount of time NFL players spend away from home.)
Meanwhile, you’ve got to wonder whether Bill O’Reily, Peter King and the other critics will rail at dead to rights (no pun intended…) the cheating sports star’s gauzy, “nobody’s perfect” send-off the way they snided the very much acquitted of any crime Michael Jackson’s? Then again, they’re Republicans. Sex scandals apparently come with the territory.
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