{"id":743197,"date":"2026-07-04T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743197\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:18:07","slug":"its-been-17-years-since-steve-mcnairs-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743197\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been 17 years since Steve McNair’s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fourth of July is one of the slowest NFL news days of the year. Every year, I remember the shocking news that emerged in the early afternoon of July 4, 2009.<\/p>\n

Former Titans and Ravens quarterback Steve McNair had been murdered.<\/p>\n

The details were confusing. It was quickly ruled a murder-suicide; McNair was shot by his 20-year-old girlfriend, who then shot herself. The woman, Sahel Kazemi, had reportedly never owned a gun. But McNair was execution-style, with two shots to the chest and two to the head.<\/p>\n

Questions lingered regarding whether someone else was involved, but the case was never re-opened. In 2018, SI.com released a podcast series<\/a> on the McNair murder.<\/p>\n

The third overall pick in the 1995 draft, McNair led the Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV, nearly throwing a late touchdown pass<\/a> that would have set the stage for overtime (or the ultimate all-or-nothing two-point conversion) against the Rams. McNair shared the NFL MVP award with Peyton Manning in 2003, and he finished his career with two seasons in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

McNair is a member of the Titans\u2019 Ring of Honor. The team has retired number 9 in his honor.<\/p>\n

McNair was only 36 when he died, 17 years ago today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fourth of July is one of the slowest NFL news days of the year. Every year, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-743197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}