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Originally Posted by The Bad Guy

100% agree.

I don't think anyone deserves to die for something like McNair did, but basically putting him on a HUGE ****ing pedestal and stating how difficult life must be is a joke.

You know when life is difficult? When you can't pay bills, struggle to put clothes on your kids, and food on the table. I don't know what it's like to be rich, but I'm pretty certain that life isn't too difficult when you can live off the interest from all the money in your bank account.

McNair was a retired football player, and had a wife and kids at home. He should have been with them. He's not out just chasing tail, he was basically supporting a whole other life outide of his marriage and that is 100% wrong.

I hope his family recovers from this.

It sounds like I'm going to cut him some slack here and I really don't mean to sound like that because I don't believe what he did was right and I think his death because of it is wrong.

I think it would be very difficult for a newly retired pro athlete to settle into a home life ESPECIALLY if they were a 'player' on the road. Not having someone waiting for them in every city (if they so choose) is just one of the perks they give up when the 'retire.' I understand this and I get where this could cause problems in a marriage. Women married to these guys have to with the understanding that their husbands will stay committed to them are slim. So no wife of a pro athlete would be shocked to hear their husband is cheating.

What bothers me about this is her age. Clearly, someone 16 years his junior is not emotionally equipped to handle being involved with a married man. Especially if he's making promises he did not intend to keep. Not every 20 year old would go off the deep end and do something like this but most of them would not be able to handle the complexity that adultery entails. A girl of 20, especially one who had been culturally sheltered, would not understand that she is not 'the one' but only one of many.

So while I'm not about to give a guy a pass for cheating, I could understand it if he chose someone who was closer to his age and maybe had been married or had been around the block a bit. She would be better able to spot a talker and playah. Likewise, the chances of someone being so emotionally unstable or ill-equipped would be less. I think we will find out that he's cheated many times in his past and only when he got to one too young or too culturally different did the situation get out of control.