This is news to me? Although when there is a huge talent or earnings discrepancy in a relationship, the party with the upper hand is normally allowed to get away with something, and the other party chooses to ignore the situation. Also, women change as they get older, especially after they have kids. So if it wasn't a marriage based on love and compatibility in the first place, I would definitely start looking around. Not insinuating anything about McNair, just discussing a topic brought up in this thread.
So lets say I am married, and my wife is a stay at home mom...and I work. Are you saying that I should have free reign to bang as many 20 year old girls as I'd like just because 1. I make more money than her 2. She looks different bc she had 3 wonderful kids for me 3. She looks different bc she's older ????? If you think this, please dont get married....ever.
You often can't tell that a person's mentally ill until it's too late--esp. if she's the "other woman." It could have happened to anybody.
I see what you're saying but you don't make professional athlete or movie star type money. I'm not saying it's right but that's why it happens.
Marriage is just a word that doesn't mean much these days. Most athlete’s get married just because they have selected someone to be the mother of their children. Not necessarily because they have selected them to be their one and only. Athlete’s have more money and fame then the rest of us, and are presented with much more temptation from the opposite sex. I admire those athlete's who are able to stay faithful with their significant others.
I think most athlete and celebrity wives know beforehand that their husband is going to cheat on the side. I wouldn't doubt that the husband tells his wife right away. I think the wives probably put up with it because it gives her and her kids a load of wealth and security. I think its along a similar line that the Kennedy's had with their wives. They were married but did not believe in celibacy. The wives knew beforehand and it was pretty much addressed ahead of time. Fact is not all marriages are made up with the same values that most people cherish them to be. Its pretty sad.
I actually think it is even higher than that. Even in a normal corporate setting, I am actually surprised when I find another male colleague in upper management who is faithful to their wives. Likewise, I notice almost all of the women who make a lot of money that I know have had affairs. And the only time I see an affair break up a marriage is when the one who is making the money, and having the affair, decides to end the marriage to be with the younger person. People can be so vain and self centered. And funny enough, in every instance, they ALWAYS wind up regretting their actions. Except for Woody Allen. I think he really likes that Sun Yi.
so they found the gun under her body...meaning she shot him multiple times, shot herself, and then fell on the gun. i would be very surprised if that is NOT what happened. this reads like a classic woman scorned case. she came to the realization that he was never going to leave his wife for her and decided if she couldn't be with him...then noone would and she would be with him in death. or, somebody shot them both and decided to move her body over the gun to make it look like a murder-suicide. it should be easy to tell just by running tests on her hands/clothes to check for the pattern of gunshot residue. it should be all over her if she did it. i don't doubt that steve mcnair was a great football player and a good person. however, there is little doubt that he was living two lives in two locations...one as the married man and one as the married man with the girlfriend. having pads in two different cities made it easy to pull off. what probably wasn't so easy was keeping them both on a leash to do his bidding. and, where there is one girlfriend on the side, there are probably more. while i am guessing that he was killed in a lover's quarrel and not by some ex-bf of hers, i tend to think the most obvious scenario is the right one in cases like these. obviously, forensics will leave no doubt. great football player. gave back to the community. but, was unfaithful and probably led to him being murdered. wake-up call for other pro athletes partaking in the on-the-side pooty shoplifting? doubtful. they are still going to do what they can get away with in this department...unless they are truly religious and believe their marriage vows are sacred.
Living here in Nashville the past 5 years has never stopped me from continuing being a fan of the Houston sports teams which I have lived a majority of my life...I was in Atlanta on vaca. when I heard this news and it hurts because I was always a fan of Air McNair...I remember being excited when the Oilers had picked him and the "what could have been" moments a few years later when they moved here... It is 99% apparent that this was a case of the girlfriend shooting Steve McNair 4 times at close range (twice in the head, twice in the chest) as he sat in his sofa of his downtown west end condo., she then shot herself in the head after the murder. Listening to the local sports radio by a somber Wycheck, it is now known there was no signs of forced entry, and the door was locked. The Tennessean's cover story is "Girlfriend had hoped to wed McNair"...We don't know some things. It could have been he and his wife and decided to split, but had not yet made the paperwork happen and he decided to move on...It could be the worse scenario of blatant cheating, but we do know he didn't deserve this death regardless. I feel bad for the families involved and the children most of all....
Obviously, everthing is speculation at this point. I've heard McNair and his wife were splitting up. This seems pretty logical to me since these two weren't hiding their relationship at all according to all reports. From everything that's been reported, I would find it virtually impossible for his wife not to be aware of this. Just my take though. Regardless, I had the opportunity to meet Steve on numerous occassions, and he was one of the most down to earth athletes I've ever encountered. RIP to one of the toughest football players I've ever seen play. The definition of a throwback player.
