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>ONE yard. A measly three feet--36 inches--a mere baby
>step for Steve McNair.
>But it's that scant distance which proved to be the
>longest yard for the Tennessee Titans star quarterback
>as the world watched his team come up one yard short
>on a last-second-tying touchdown in Super Bowl XXXIV.
>After the game, after the media was gone, after the
>on-field celebration by the St. Louis Rams had
>subsided, the 6-foot-2, 235-pound Pro Bowler cried
>like a baby. And to this day--even as the 32-year-old
>relaxes with his family in their magnificent Nashville
>home, and he finds himself in the midst of another
>football season--that game continues to haunt him.
>"It's always going to be there," McNair says. "I don't
>care how many people say that they don't think about
>it, you always replay it in your mind. I think about
>how sad and how bad I was feeling. It was a low point
>in my career because I think that we had a chance to
>win the game if we would have gotten that yard and
>went into overtime. The one yard short still hurts
>because I haven't been back. It will never go away
>until I get back to the Super Bowl. And not only get
>back, but win. That's a motivating factor for me."
>If anybody can go the extra yard and slay the ghosts
>of a Super Bowl past, it's McNair. Having grown up
>dirt-poor in Mississippi, McNair's life and career are
>filled with stories of succeeding against the odds,
>triumph over adversity. In 11 seasons in the NFL, the
>devoted husband and father of four sons has
>accomplished feats--on and off the field--that few
>thought he would.
>In fact, with all of his accomplishments (which
>include being the league's co-MVP in 2003, and
>becoming only the fifth player in NFL history to pass
>for 20,000 yards and rush for 3,000 yards), and all of
>his setbacks (including a myriad of injuries and
>surgeries to repair his toe, ankle, knee, back, chest,
>hip, and his shoulder twice) he has managed to stay
>self-effacing.
>McNair now reveals that before his latest surgery this
>off-season--an unorthodox procedure where surgeons
>took a piece of bone from his right hip and screwed it
>to his sternum--his growing list of injuries actually
>forced him to think about walking away from the game.
>"I don't want to have my family pushing me around in a
>wheelchair when I'm 50 because I have been beaten up
>so bad," he says. "But the surgery went great. For the
>first time in four or five years, I feel pretty normal
>now."
>After deciding to suit up for another season, McNair
>hired a personal trainer, and went on a strict diet
>for the first time in his life. "I wanted to get in
>the best shape of my life," says McNair, who last year
>was named No. 3 on USA Today's list of the 10 toughest
>athletes in sports. "I now have a little more bounce
>in my step. I wanted to give myself a chance to play
>again."
>The diet he followed included shying away from his
>mother's cooking. "Candied yams, fried chicken,
>smothered chicken, greens. She knows how to do all of
>that. And she does it well," McNair says. "I love soul
>food, but at the same time, I had to slow down, not
>stop, but slow down. I had to start eating right. She
>still cooks for me."
>Not only does she cook for him, but rarely does a day
>go by without McNair talking with his mother, Lucille,
>the backbone of the McNair family, the strong-willed
>woman who raised him and his four brothers by herself
>on a small farm in Mount Olive, Miss. When talking
>about those days growing up, McNair doesn't mince
>words. "I used to see my mother scratch for every
>penny. To make us happy, she did without," he says.
>"It was hard seeing my mother work from 11 p.m. to 7
>a.m. I remember seeing her closing her door and crying
>because she didn't think that she was doing a good job
>of raising us, and feeling like she didn't have enough
>income to take care of us."
>McNair says he and his brothers did everything they
>could to help make ends meet, including work on the
>farm raising pigs, chickens and cows, and plowing the
>garden with a mule. "We got summer jobs, mowing yards
>when I was 8 or 9 years old," he says. "It put a lot
>of pressure on my oldest brother. He had to grow up
>faster than he should have. He had to be a
>father-figure for us. He made sure we did [our]
>homework ... That actually made us close as a family."
>Faith and hard work helped the McNair family get
>through the tough times. "It was hard on us," he says.
>"But we went to church every Sunday. That always made
>us feel good. Did a lot of things together. Whenever
>you saw one, you saw everybody. We were a very close
>family that made the sacrifices we needed to survive."
>The former Alcorn State University star says he's a
>"country boy" who can "put on a pair of boots, some
>jeans and a T-shirt" and" sit and do nothing, and
>still have fun. I'm not financially in need anymore,
>but I'm not going to change my lifestyle," he says.
>McNair has a 643-acre ranch back in Mississippi, where
>he raises some 250 cattle and 30 horses. Ironically,
>it's the same land his mother used to work on. "I'll
>never forget the day when I took her out there to look
>at the property for the first time," he says. "All of
>sudden, her eyes started watering and tears started
>coming down her face. I said, 'What, you don't like
>it?' That was when she told me that it was the land
>she used to work" as a laborer.
>ONE yard. A measly three feet--36 inches--a mere baby
>step for Steve McNair.
>But it's that scant distance which proved to be the
>longest yard for the Tennessee Titans star quarterback
>as the world watched his team come up one yard short
>on a last-second-tying touchdown in Super Bowl XXXIV.
>After the game, after the media was gone, after the
>on-field celebration by the St. Louis Rams had
>subsided, the 6-foot-2, 235-pound Pro Bowler cried
>like a baby. And to this day--even as the 32-year-old
>relaxes with his family in their magnificent Nashville
>home, and he finds himself in the midst of another
>football season--that game continues to haunt him.
>"It's always going to be there," McNair says. "I don't
>care how many people say that they don't think about
>it, you always replay it in your mind. I think about
>how sad and how bad I was feeling. It was a low point
>in my career because I think that we had a chance to
>win the game if we would have gotten that yard and
>went into overtime. The one yard short still hurts
>because I haven't been back. It will never go away
>until I get back to the Super Bowl. And not only get
>back, but win. That's a motivating factor for me."
>If anybody can go the extra yard and slay the ghosts
>of a Super Bowl past, it's McNair. Having grown up
>dirt-poor in Mississippi, McNair's life and career are
>filled with stories of succeeding against the odds,
>triumph over adversity. In 11 seasons in the NFL, the
>devoted husband and father of four sons has
>accomplished feats--on and off the field--that few
>thought he would.
>In fact, with all of his accomplishments (which
>include being the league's co-MVP in 2003, and
>becoming only the fifth player in NFL history to pass
>for 20,000 yards and rush for 3,000 yards), and all of
>his setbacks (including a myriad of injuries and
>surgeries to repair his toe, ankle, knee, back, chest,
>hip, and his shoulder twice) he has managed to stay
>self-effacing.
>McNair now reveals that before his latest surgery this
>off-season--an unorthodox procedure where surgeons
>took a piece of bone from his right hip and screwed it
>to his sternum--his growing list of injuries actually
>forced him to think about walking away from the game.
>"I don't want to have my family pushing me around in a
>wheelchair when I'm 50 because I have been beaten up
>so bad," he says. "But the surgery went great. For the
>first time in four or five years, I feel pretty normal
>now."
>After deciding to suit up for another season, McNair
>hired a personal trainer, and went on a strict diet
>for the first time in his life. "I wanted to get in
>the best shape of my life," says McNair, who last year
>was named No. 3 on USA Today's list of the 10 toughest
>athletes in sports. "I now have a little more bounce
>in my step. I wanted to give myself a chance to play
>again."
>The diet he followed included shying away from his
>mother's cooking. "Candied yams, fried chicken,
>smothered chicken, greens. She knows how to do all of
>that. And she does it well," McNair says. "I love soul
>food, but at the same time, I had to slow down, not
>stop, but slow down. I had to start eating right. She
>still cooks for me."
>Not only does she cook for him, but rarely does a day
>go by without McNair talking with his mother, Lucille,
>the backbone of the McNair family, the strong-willed
>woman who raised him and his four brothers by herself
>on a small farm in Mount Olive, Miss. When talking
>about those days growing up, McNair doesn't mince
>words. "I used to see my mother scratch for every
>penny. To make us happy, she did without," he says.
>"It was hard seeing my mother work from 11 p.m. to 7
>a.m. I remember seeing her closing her door and crying
>because she didn't think that she was doing a good job
>of raising us, and feeling like she didn't have enough
>income to take care of us."
>McNair says he and his brothers did everything they
>could to help make ends meet, including work on the
>farm raising pigs, chickens and cows, and plowing the
>garden with a mule. "We got summer jobs, mowing yards
>when I was 8 or 9 years old," he says. "It put a lot
>of pressure on my oldest brother. He had to grow up
>faster than he should have. He had to be a
>father-figure for us. He made sure we did [our]
>homework ... That actually made us close as a family."
>Faith and hard work helped the McNair family get
>through the tough times. "It was hard on us," he says.
>"But we went to church every Sunday. That always made
>us feel good. Did a lot of things together. Whenever
>you saw one, you saw everybody. We were a very close
>family that made the sacrifices we needed to survive."
>The former Alcorn State University star says he's a
>"country boy" who can "put on a pair of boots, some
>jeans and a T-shirt" and" sit and do nothing, and
>still have fun. I'm not financially in need anymore,
>but I'm not going to change my lifestyle," he says.
>McNair has a 643-acre ranch back in Mississippi, where
>he raises some 250 cattle and 30 horses. Ironically,
>it's the same land his mother used to work on. "I'll
>never forget the day when I took her out there to look
>at the property for the first time," he says. "All of
>sudden, her eyes started watering and tears started
>coming down her face. I said, 'What, you don't like
>it?' That was when she told me that it was the land
>she used to work" as a laborer.
>ONE yard. A measly three feet--36 inches--a mere baby
>step for Steve McNair.
>But it's that scant distance which proved to be the
>longest yard for the Tennessee Titans star quarterback
>as the world watched his team come up one yard short
>on a last-second-tying touchdown in Super Bowl XXXIV.
>After the game, after the media was gone, after the
>on-field celebration by the St. Louis Rams had
>subsided, the 6-foot-2, 235-pound Pro Bowler cried
>like a baby. And to this day--even as the 32-year-old
>relaxes with his family in their magnificent Nashville
>home, and he finds himself in the midst of another
>football season--that game continues to haunt him.
>"It's always going to be there," McNair says. "I don't
>care how many people say that they don't think about
>it, you always replay it in your mind. I think about
>how sad and how bad I was feeling. It was a low point
>in my career because I think that we had a chance to
>win the game if we would have gotten that yard and
>went into overtime. The one yard short still hurts
>because I haven't been back. It will never go away
>until I get back to the Super Bowl. And not only get
>back, but win. That's a motivating factor for me."
>If anybody can go the extra yard and slay the ghosts
>of a Super Bowl past, it's McNair. Having grown up
>dirt-poor in Mississippi, McNair's life and career are
>filled with stories of succeeding against the odds,
>triumph over adversity. In 11 seasons in the NFL, the
>devoted husband and father of four sons has
>accomplished feats--on and off the field--that few
>thought he would.
>In fact, with all of his accomplishments (which
>include being the league's co-MVP in 2003, and
>becoming only the fifth player in NFL history to pass
>for 20,000 yards and rush for 3,000 yards), and all of
>his setbacks (including a myriad of injuries and
>surgeries to repair his toe, ankle, knee, back, chest,
>hip, and his shoulder twice) he has managed to stay
>self-effacing.
>McNair now reveals that before his latest surgery this
>off-season--an unorthodox procedure where surgeons
>took a piece of bone from his right hip and screwed it
>to his sternum--his growing list of injuries actually
>forced him to think about walking away from the game.
>"I don't want to have my family pushing me around in a
>wheelchair when I'm 50 because I have been beaten up
>so bad," he says. "But the surgery went great. For the
>first time in four or five years, I feel pretty normal
>now."
>After deciding to suit up for another season, McNair
>hired a personal trainer, and went on a strict diet
>for the first time in his life. "I wanted to get in
>the best shape of my life," says McNair, who last year
>was named No. 3 on USA Today's list of the 10 toughest
>athletes in sports. "I now have a little more bounce
>in my step. I wanted to give myself a chance to play
>again."
>The diet he followed included shying away from his
>mother's cooking. "Candied yams, fried chicken,
>smothered chicken, greens. She knows how to do all of
>that. And she does it well," McNair says. "I love soul
>food, but at the same time, I had to slow down, not
>stop, but slow down. I had to start eating right. She
>still cooks for me."
>Not only does she cook for him, but rarely does a day
>go by without McNair talking with his mother, Lucille,
>the backbone of the McNair family, the strong-willed
>woman who raised him and his four brothers by herself
>on a small farm in Mount Olive, Miss. When talking
>about those days growing up, McNair doesn't mince
>words. "I used to see my mother scratch for every
>penny. To make us happy, she did without," he says.
>"It was hard seeing my mother work from 11 p.m. to 7
>a.m. I remember seeing her closing her door and crying
>because she didn't think that she was doing a good job
>of raising us, and feeling like she didn't have enough
>income to take care of us."
>McNair says he and his brothers did everything they
>could to help make ends meet, including work on the
>farm raising pigs, chickens and cows, and plowing the
>garden with a mule. "We got summer jobs, mowing yards
>when I was 8 or 9 years old," he says. "It put a lot
>of pressure on my oldest brother. He had to grow up
>faster than he should have. He had to be a
>father-figure for us. He made sure we did [our]
>homework ... That actually made us close as a family."
>Faith and hard work helped the McNair family get
>through the tough times. "It was hard on us," he says.
>"But we went to church every Sunday. That always made
>us feel good. Did a lot of things together. Whenever
>you saw one, you saw everybody. We were a very close
>family that made the sacrifices we needed to survive."
>The former Alcorn State University star says he's a
>"country boy" who can "put on a pair of boots, some
>jeans and a T-shirt" and" sit and do nothing, and
>still have fun. I'm not financially in need anymore,
>but I'm not going to change my lifestyle," he says.
>McNair has a 643-acre ranch back in Mississippi, where
>he raises some 250 cattle and 30 horses. Ironically,
>it's the same land his mother used to work on. "I'll
>never forget the day when I took her out there to look
>at the property for the first time," he says. "All of
>sudden, her eyes started watering and tears started
>coming down her face. I said, 'What, you don't like
>it?' That was when she told me that it was the land
>she used to work" as a laborer.
>ONE yard. A measly three feet--36 inches--a mere baby
>step for Steve McNair.
>But it's that scant distance which proved to be the
>longest yard for the Tennessee Titans star quarterback
>as the world watched his team come up one yard short
>on a last-second-tying touchdown in Super Bowl XXXIV.
>After the game, after the media was gone, after the
>on-field celebration by the St. Louis Rams had
>subsided, the 6-foot-2, 235-pound Pro Bowler cried
>like a baby. And to this day--even as the 32-year-old
>relaxes with his family in their magnificent Nashville
>home, and he finds himself in the midst of another
>football season--that game continues to haunt him.
>"It's always going to be there," McNair says. "I don't
>care how many people say that they don't think about
>it, you always replay it in your mind. I think about
>how sad and how bad I was feeling. It was a low point
>in my career because I think that we had a chance to
>win the game if we would have gotten that yard and
>went into overtime. The one yard short still hurts
>because I haven't been back. It will never go away
>until I get back to the Super Bowl. And not only get
>back, but win. That's a motivating factor for me."
>If anybody can go the extra yard and slay the ghosts
>of a Super Bowl past, it's McNair. Having grown up
>dirt-poor in Mississippi, McNair's life and career are
>filled with stories of succeeding against the odds,
>triumph over adversity. In 11 seasons in the NFL, the
>devoted husband and father of four sons has
>accomplished feats--on and off the field--that few
>thought he would.
>In fact, with all of his accomplishments (which
>include being the league's co-MVP in 2003, and
>becoming only the fifth player in NFL history to pass
>for 20,000 yards and rush for 3,000 yards), and all of
>his setbacks (including a myriad of injuries and
>surgeries to repair his toe, ankle, knee, back, chest,
>hip, and his shoulder twice) he has managed to stay
>self-effacing.
>McNair now reveals that before his latest surgery this
>off-season--an unorthodox procedure where surgeons
>took a piece of bone from his right hip and screwed it
>to his sternum--his growing list of injuries actually
>forced him to think about walking away from the game.
>"I don't want to have my family pushing me around in a
>wheelchair when I'm 50 because I have been beaten up
>so bad," he says. "But the surgery went great. For the
>first time in four or five years, I feel pretty normal
>now."
>After deciding to suit up for another season, McNair
>hired a personal trainer, and went on a strict diet
>for the first time in his life. "I wanted to get in
>the best shape of my life," says McNair, who last year
>was named No. 3 on USA Today's list of the 10 toughest
>athletes in sports. "I now have a little more bounce
>in my step. I wanted to give myself a chance to play
>again."
>The diet he followed included shying away from his
>mother's cooking. "Candied yams, fried chicken,
>smothered chicken, greens. She knows how to do all of
>that. And she does it well," McNair says. "I love soul
>food, but at the same time, I had to slow down, not
>stop, but slow down. I had to start eating right. She
>still cooks for me."
>Not only does she cook for him, but rarely does a day
>go by without McNair talking with his mother, Lucille,
>the backbone of the McNair family, the strong-willed
>woman who raised him and his four brothers by herself
>on a small farm in Mount Olive, Miss. When talking
>about those days growing up, McNair doesn't mince
>words. "I used to see my mother scratch for every
>penny. To make us happy, she did without," he says.
>"It was hard seeing my mother work from 11 p.m. to 7
>a.m. I remember seeing her closing her door and crying
>because she didn't think that she was doing a good job
>of raising us, and feeling like she didn't have enough
>income to take care of us."
>McNair says he and his brothers did everything they
>could to help make ends meet, including work on the
>farm raising pigs, chickens and cows, and plowing the
>garden with a mule. "We got summer jobs, mowing yards
>when I was 8 or 9 years old," he says. "It put a lot
>of pressure on my oldest brother. He had to grow up
>faster than he should have. He had to be a
>father-figure for us. He made sure we did [our]
>homework ... That actually made us close as a family."
>Faith and hard work helped the McNair family get
>through the tough times. "It was hard on us," he says.
>"But we went to church every Sunday. That always made
>us feel good. Did a lot of things together. Whenever
>you saw one, you saw everybody. We were a very close
>family that made the sacrifices we needed to survive."
>The former Alcorn State University star says he's a
>"country boy" who can "put on a pair of boots, some
>jeans and a T-shirt" and" sit and do nothing, and
>still have fun. I'm not financially in need anymore,
>but I'm not going to change my lifestyle," he says.
>McNair has a 643-acre ranch back in Mississippi, where
>he raises some 250 cattle and 30 horses. Ironically,
>it's the same land his mother used to work on. "I'll
>never forget the day when I took her out there to look
>at the property for the first time," he says. "All of
>sudden, her eyes started watering and tears started
>coming down her face. I said, 'What, you don't like
>it?' That was when she told me that it was the land
>she used to work" as a laborer.
>
>Not only does she cook for him, but rarely does a day
>go by without McNair talking with his mother, Lucille,
>the backbone of the McNair family, the strong-willed
>woman who raised him and his four brothers by herself
>on a small farm in Mount Olive, Miss. When talking
>about those days growing up, McNair doesn't mince
>words. "I used to see my mother scratch for every
>penny. To make us happy, she did without," he says.
>"It was hard seeing my mother work from 11 p.m. to 7
>a.m. I remember seeing her closing her door and crying
>because she didn't think that she was doing a good job
>of raising us, and feeling like she didn't have enough
>income to take care of us."
>McNair says he and his brothers did everything they
>could to help make ends meet, including work on the
>farm raising pigs, chickens and cows, and plowing the
>garden with a mule. "We got summer jobs, mowing yards
>when I was 8 or 9 years old," he says. "It put a lot
>of pressure on my oldest brother. He had to grow up
>faster than he should have. He had to be a
>father-figure for us. He made sure we did [our]
>homework ... That actually made us close as a family."
>Faith and hard work helped the McNair family get
>through the tough times. "It was hard on us," he says.
>"But we went to church every Sunday. That always made
>us feel good. Did a lot of things together. Whenever
>you saw one, you saw everybody. We were a very close
>family that made the sacrifices we needed to survive."
>The former Alcorn State University star says he's a
>"country boy" who can "put on a pair of boots, some
>jeans and a T-shirt" and" sit and do nothing, and
>still have fun. I'm not financially in need anymore,
>but I'm not going to change my lifestyle," he says.
>McNair has a 643-acre ranch back in Mississippi, where
>he raises some 250 cattle and 30 horses. Ironically,
>it's the same land his mother used to work on. "I'll
>never forget the day when I took her out there to look
>at the property for the first time," he says. "All of
>sudden, her eyes started watering and tears started
>coming down her face. I said, 'What, you don't like
>it?' That was when she told me that it was the land
>she used to work" as a laborer.
>Not only does she cook for him, but rarely does a day
>go by without McNair talking with his mother, Lucille,
>the backbone of the McNair family, the strong-willed
>woman who raised him and his four brothers by herself
>on a small farm in Mount Olive, Miss. When talking
>about those days growing up, McNair doesn't mince
>words. "I used to see my mother scratch for every
>penny. To make us happy, she did without," he says.
>"It was hard seeing my mother work from 11 p.m. to 7
>a.m. I remember seeing her closing her door and crying
>because she didn't think that she was doing a good job
>of raising us, and feeling like she didn't have enough
>income to take care of us."
>McNair says he and his brothers did everything they
>could to help make ends meet, including work on the
>farm raising pigs, chickens and cows, and plowing the
>garden with a mule. "We got summer jobs, mowing yards
>when I was 8 or 9 years old," he says. "It put a lot
>of pressure on my oldest brother. He had to grow up
>faster than he should have. He had to be a
>father-figure for us. He made sure we did [our]
>homework ... That actually made us close as a family."
>Faith and hard work helped the McNair family get
>through the tough times. "It was hard on us," he says.
>"But we went to church every Sunday. That always made
>us feel good. Did a lot of things together. Whenever
>you saw one, you saw everybody. We were a very close
>family that made the sacrifices we needed to survive."
>The former Alcorn State University star says he's a
>"country boy" who can "put on a pair of boots, some
>jeans and a T-shirt" and" sit and do nothing, and
>still have fun. I'm not financially in need anymore,
>but I'm not going to change my lifestyle," he says.
>McNair has a 643-acre ranch back in Mississippi, where
>he raises some 250 cattle and 30 horses. Ironically,
>it's the same land his mother used to work on. "I'll
>never forget the day when I took her out there to look
>at the property for the first time," he says. "All of
>sudden, her eyes started watering and tears started
>coming down her face. I said, 'What, you don't like
>it?' That was when she told me that it was the land
>she used to work" as a laborer.
>The former Alcorn State University star says he's a
>"country boy" who can "put on a pair of boots, some
>jeans and a T-shirt" and" sit and do nothing, and
>still have fun. I'm not financially in need anymore,
>but I'm not going to change my lifestyle," he says.
>McNair has a 643-acre ranch back in Mississippi, where
>he raises some 250 cattle and 30 horses. Ironically,
>it's the same land his mother used to work on. "I'll
>never forget the day when I took her out there to look
>at the property for the first time," he says. "All of
>sudden, her eyes started watering and tears started
>coming down her face. sf;gkhmfl;gs
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