Apparently, she bought the gun after she was arrested for DUI last Thursday, which is interesting since she is only 20yrs old.  McNair was killed with four shots--two to the head and two to the chest. 

I'll remember McNair for all the great things he did on the football field--the 69yd td run to beat TB on Sunday Night football in 1998, the mad scramble and throw in the play prior to the last one in SB34, going nuts during the 2003 season and leading the Titans to several blow outs during that season.  In some ways he is a pioneer as he came from a small school--predominanetly black--to  become an NFL star.  He was also the first of the new wave of black scrambling qbs (ok Cunningham deserves a lot more credit here)--McNabb, Vick, Culpepper. 

It's interesting that I can actually plot out his career in stages:

1995-1999  Primarily a scrambler, helped by Eddie George who was a pro bowl caliber RB at this point.

2000-2004  Developed as a passer.  Deadly on third downs.  Very accurate at throwing on the move/rolling pocket.  Aside from 2000, Eddie George was useless as he posted awful numbers as a RB.  From 2001-2003 McNair carried the Titan offense culminating with his 2003 NFL co MVP award.

2005-2007  His skills began to erode because of poor conditions and injuries finally taking a toll.  He became a caretaker qb with occassional glimpses of the 2001-2003 McNair.

Unfortunately, I don't think he has enough numbers to get into HOF.  McNabb will get there;  I don't know about Cunningham.  He was my favorite player on the Titans.

Oh yeah, James I don't think he did much in that 99 playoff game.  The offense aside from George was awful.  The Bills special teams--and coaching (Rob Johnson starting?)--screwed the pooch on that one.

Farewell Steve and may you rest in peace.

Those two figures were the strong points of the documentary to me.  The friend,  J. Randy Taraborelli, wrote a 625 page book on Jackson in 1991 which I borrowed from the library.  I think both Diamond and the investigation seemed sleazy, especially Diamond who used to host A Current Affair, a tabloid show in the 1990s.

The smoking gun/ shocking revelation for me was when they spoke to the ex-publicist Bob Jones about the World Music Awards in Monaco in 1993.  The excerpt where they said only Michael and Chandler stayed in the room during the entire day due to flu like symptoms was somewhat damming.  The publicist didn't have a good explanation of that day.   I think that he suspected there was something going on between the two by the way of his skeptical answers to some of the questions.  He also provided the detail of Chandler sitting on MJ's lap while Jackson was seated next to Prince Albert which bolsters his claim.

The difficult part for me is that there is just too much conflicting information on both fronts for me to come to a conclusion either way.  It's clear that he loves children and does generous things for them--the Ryan White thing and the building of Neverland. Then there are those strange things like James mentioned--the room with the alarm.  The man himself admitted on tv that he still slept with children and felt nothing wrong with it.  There is compelling arguments on both sides and either point could be made.

It's probably just easier to blame it on that giant douchebag Joe Jackson.  I think its pretty sleazy that one of the first things he mentioned in that video posted in the other thread is that Michael's three children are living with him and Katherine and that Debroah Rowe (I presume) will have to deal with him through a lawyer.  I hope Janet Jackson gets as far away from him as possible since she's the only one with talent left in the family.

I think at some point in the last 10 years--probably around 1999-2003 Axl was extremely interested in releasing music.  But when he hit the snags and the project was being ridiculed he lost confidence in the project and just thought to hell with this.

I'm pretty sure this was the reason why the 2006 tour happened as they needed cash to continue with the recording of CD as UMG had cut them off in 2004.  It was a pure cash grab in retrospect.