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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. tyjtyjh
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