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McNair announces he's retiring
The news that Steve McNair decided to retire Thursday came as a little bit of a surprise. According to his agent, Bus Cook, McNair had only expressed a desire to retire in the past couple of days. He had been training hard during the offseason, doing a lot of weightlifting and running to help his legs. At the NFL owners meeting, new Ravens coach John Harbaugh praised McNair for his hard ...
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Four!
Da' Bears Blog — ... Congratulations to Steve McNair on a terrific career. McNair and Eddie George made those Jeff Fisher Titans clubs of the 90s some of the toughest around and their bodies took the brunt of it. I always wished Kevin Dyson would have gotten that extra yard and three great football men would have realized the dream of a world championship. I guess Fisher will have to wait until he replaces Lovie Smith in a few years. ...

Baltimore Looking Very Smart These Days
East Coast Bias — ... In other news, Steve McNair has decided to voluntarily free up some cap space by announcing his retirement. McNair was a big part of the Ravens 13-3 season in 2006. Unfortunately, he was also a big part of last season's disaster. It seems the parting is amicable, and I think most Ravens fans join me in wishing him a happy post-football career. ...

Steve McNair Retires, Which Will Make His Stats This Year Just Like Last Years
Sports Blog - football, basketball, and baseball — Steve McNair has decided to call it quits today, ending his 13 year career that was often marked by injury and absence. “Coming out and making this decision, it was hard,” he said. “In your mind, you feel like you can play, that you can still compete. But when your mind and your body are not in accord, it’s not going to work in the National Football League. “My mind was there. Mentally, I could go out and play. But physically, I couldn’t do it anymore. Not to ...

THE NEWS
Mondesi's House — ... --Peabody's LaRoi Johnson is hoping for some good news in the upcoming draft. --Steve McNair retired today, joining his body, which retired about four years ago. --Scary news: the ...

ESPN’s List of ‘Versatile QBs’ Omits a Certain Someone
BroncoTalk — ... So ESPN reports that Steve McNair’s retirement puts him in a quite unique/elite group of quarterbacks in NFL history. ...

McNair's Hall of Fame worthiness
ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog — ... With former Baltimore Ravens and Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair retiring this week, the biggest debate involving McNair over the next five years will be his candidacy for the Hall of Fame. ...

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