every titans fan, please read this!!!!!

People, his family, loved him despite his very flawed and human qualities and behaviors. Why does that make you want to puke? Get over yourself man.

 

dude....relax....he was just brutally murdered

 

He was just murdered. His family loves him anyway after everything that took place.

 

This has nothing to do with me. My problem with the situation has less to do with the people that loved him and more to do with who it turned out Steve really was. McNair was a fraud. His death was completely unnecessary and it was completely his own fault. All that pain his family feels is his own doing. There's that and the fact they are making a spectacle out of themselves, needlessly, I might add. It would be far more dignified to not deal with the media at all rather than put these poems out there.

 

First and foremost, printing and distributing something like this at a memorial service is totally ok. I have no problem with that. You get a few hundred people in pain together, pass out the programs, Uncle Edsil pulls out his flask from his sock and passes it around the 15th row. People cry. Maybe release some doves or something. There is a time and a place.

Now reading your post, to me at least, suggests that some editor got his hands on the program and put it in his newspaper unbeknownst to the McNair family. I'm not a newspaper man myself, so I don't know all the rules of the game but I would think that permission would have to be sought. If permission is sought and then it's granted and it is in the papers what difference does it make who contacted who over it?

This is just too private to display publicly in a newspaper. It's like discussing your sex life at the office water cooler or something. It's just feels like TMI or more than I care to hear... Plus, I lost so much respect for McNair over all of this. I'm sad about it too. I really just want to move on. Those poems are just too much.

 

I agree that the poems should not be out there. I took one look at them and did not read them. But bashing Steve on moral grounds so soon after his death is where we disagree. This is a football forum, not church.

 

exsqueeze me? Who's "bashing" Steve?

I really admired the guy. I admired his perseverance, his dedication, his resolve. his refusal to quit, and his leadership. I admired the way he led by example. I admired his citizenship and the way he was a family man. A lot of what I want to be is based in part on what I thought he was. Steve was influential to me. If I want to call the guy a fraud for leading us all to believe he was some kind of amazing father and husband that doesn't make me a slanderer. That just makes me truthful.

 

Um....you. Let's recap:

If you want to get over "it" then by all means don't read the poems. There is nothing difficult about that. And by the way, it doesn't take balls to make asinine comments on a message board. It just takes someone with an internet connection.