Around FCS: Steve McNair's paradoxical life

By David Coulson, FCS Executive Director

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - At The Sports Network, we look at the winners of our annual awards as members of an extended family, so when I learned of the death of Steve McNair on the Fourth of July, it hit me in a close and personal way.

Though I had never met the 36-year-old McNair in person, we had been working on getting the 1994 Walter Payton Award winner involved in the yearly FCS awards banquet since he retired from a 13-year NFL career last year.

I was looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship with a man who was the ultimate warrior on the football field.

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