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Steve McNair isn't a Hall of Famer

I know this probably isn't the best time to go here, but I had to because we all know that there's a tendency to overstate people's greatness when they pass on, especially if it's early. There was some discussion of McNair's Hall of Fame worthiness when he retired, with the verdict coming down against. Now some chatter came up again, and it needs to be said definitively that he isn't, and that the sportswriters who choose not to vote for him aren't being racist. When you look at all the metrics that we can measure him by, he come up short across the board. No rings, no eye popping stats, a .500 playoff record, and only three Pro Bowls. The only things in his favor are his MVP award in 2003 and his 30,000 passing yards, which don't mean as much as they used to (28 other quarterbacks have at least 30,000 passing yards and only half of them are or will be Hall of Famers). He was very good, often great, but he just didn't pass the necessary benchmarks to cement his case.

I waited, I waited, I waited and then I waited some more. I've been struggling with this since Saturday night when I got the first text from a close friend in Nashville:

"She didn't do it."

I was a groomsman in a wedding on Sunday and while the bride and groom were saying ironically to death do us part, I was getting a message from someone in NYC with connections to McNair:

"She didn't do it."

Sunday night I got in touch with someone who plays in the NFL and told him simply:

"This doesn't sound right."

His response was:

I am not a detective, but I have watched every Forensic Files ever made and I know when something isn't right. I am going to go over three points of the Steve McNair murder case that makes absolutely no sense to me:

1- How and why did she get the gun?

Steve McNair and Miss Kazemi were found dead in his downtown condo this afternoon. McNair was shot multiple times in the head and Miss Kazemi had one shot to the head.

The police have ruled out McNair's wife as a suspect in the killings. It has also been reported that McNair's wife had not heard from him in the last 48 hours.

According to The Tennessean McNair met Miss Kazemi at a local Dave and Busters where she was working and they had been seeing each other for a couple of months.

Our friends at Profootballtalk.com reports that McNair's SUV was part of a DUI arrest of Miss Kazemi. It has been confirmed that McNair was in the car at the time of the arrest and was the one that bailed Miss Kazemi out.

There are a lot of crazy things going around surrounding the death of Steve McNair, but there is one thing we all need to remember.

Two people lost their lives today in what appears to be an avoidable situation.

They ask Biggie once how he felt about Tupac dying and he said something very prophetic:

"I wouldn't wish death on nobody there isn't any coming back from that."

So just remember while you are watching ESPN, CNN and etc that you don't forget regardless of what was going on in McNair's personal life there is no justification for murder. Just please keep that in mind.

Here are updated details from CNN.com: