I recently posted a piece about Steve McNair's tragic death, arguing that just because his 20-year-old girlfriend shot him, his legacy should remain intact.
Today, CNN.com reported that McNair's former Titans teammate, runningback Eddie George, thinks McNair's behavior toward the end of his life was a result of the void he felt after retiring from the NFL.
"I'm hoping that people can look beyond the circumstances surrounding his death. What people fail to realize is that when you make a transition away from the game -- emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually -- you go through something. You change, and you're constantly searching for something," George said.
Steve McNair certainly isn't the first player to suffer from withdrawal symptoms after leaving the game. For a lot of people, I imagine it's a pretty scary, unsettling thing to walk away from football (or any other sport, or any other lifetime career) when it's been your central focus and occupation for so long. Why do you think Brett Favre keeps not retiring? And because of the high-profile nature of the game and the adrenaline involved in playing, I suspect that walking away, into what they fear will be oblivion, is especially hard for football players, especially guys like McNair.
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Interesting, I agree, it is sort of a shock to them to not be in the spotlight or to stop doing the routines thay've done for over a decade.
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You scared me! I was afraid you were going to talk about him cheating on his lovely wife, Tamara (a*k*a Taj from Survivor: Tocantins).
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