CBS comes to Nashville hoping to unearth proof of flawed Nashville Police Department conclusions. Nashville Post Politics (yes, that would be 'Hard Right' Kleinheider) has a link to the Fanhouse, with this clippy...

On Monday’s Early Show, correspondent Armen Keteyian reported that his own three-month investigation (video after the jump) found errors made by the police, including a major one about when Kazemi supposedly bought the murder weapon. Police claimed that they had pinpointed the time when Kazemi bought the murder weapon as during a two-hour period when she was absent from work. But Keteyian reported that the police were wrong about the date on which Kazemi was gone from work for two hours, and that there are major questions about whether she purchased the gun at all.

And while police say Kazemi was distraught about being broke, CBS obtained her bank statement and other information about her finances and found that she had more money on hand than she owed in bills. Police also said Kazemi was angry about having been arrested for DUI, but CBS uncovered video footage showing Kazemi at the police http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=11341940 station after her arrest, and she doesn’t look distraught.

On Tuesday, CBS is promising to reveal a “big” mistake that the police department made in the investigation. Keteyian’s reporting has already revealed enough to make me think the police have a lot of explaining to do.

pretty big clippy, Kleinheider.

Here's the video...


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I left this comment at NPP, repeated here because it's all I have to say on this for now.

Keep digging, CBS. Not that I think the NPD’s analysis will prove flawed, but we need a nice bunch of ‘Grassy Knoll’ conspiracy theorists to laugh at here in Nashville.

‘McNair Truthers’. Who knew?

And if this does turn on the Nashville Police Department, they will become the laughing stock of the nation, much like the Dallas Police Department was after the Kennedy - Oswald assassinations. We can laugh Ronald Serpas right out of town. Not a bad thing, that.

(Sorry, Ronal. I was thinking of the other clown.)

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I think that Jeff Fisher is burned out in Nashville; that burnout was accelerated and exacerbated by the horrific murder of his friend Steve McNair on July 4th.

He may not even be able to articulate it, but I'm guessing that a change of scenery would be welcomed.

(Think about it...McNair died within view of LP Field. Don't you know that his memory haunts his remaining teammates and coaches?)

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On Wednesday, Vince Young stepped up for Steve McNair's two sons, Trenton and Tyler McNair. Vince picked them up at their home, and took them to The Pancake Pantry in downtown Nashville, where their school, St. Paul Christian Academy, was having a "Dear Our Dads" breakfast. Dads were to take their kids there for a big breakfast and social meet-and-greet. Of course, Trenton and Tyler lost their father on July 4. They'd been wondering how this breakfast would turn out.

This is really a good thing Vince did, in anyone's mind; given that they have possession of a mind. This was a selfless act done expressly for a couple of kids who just lost their father in an unexpected and most horrific way.

Vince Young, comparatively speaking, is a class act; he's never gotten into any trouble with drugs, alcohol, or sex; his issues aren't based on overweening pride or self-indulgence. Sure, he's had some emotional and on-the-field setbacks. Fighting and dealing with those issues might make him a better man; if he gets them resolved, he might make a decent football player. If this event is any indication of his future direction, it's certainly looking brighter now, whether or not his future involves football.

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h/t PFT

You know, Officer Shawn Taylor, the same one who busted McNair. Twice. Then McNair's girlfriend, the day before she killed Steve.

Oh, this, left at PFT...

In Nashville, if you drink, and drive, you're going down. Period. No matter what is your name, your game or your color. You don't know anyone big-time enough to get you out of my brand of trouble. I'll destroy your life, and get you fired, divorced, cut, killed.

Cops rule, thugs and drunks (and near-drunks, and even .11 buzz drivers) drool.

Stay at home or call a cab, if you want to drink to excess. Or even drink enough to crack a smile. That cracked smile of yours won't get you anything but cuffs. There's no room on the streets for both of us.

Be very afraid of me. Every one of you.

/Officer Taylor's Gleaming Gold Badge

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It's finis. Nashville police rule that Sahel Kazemi killed Steve McNair, then did in herself.

There’s more edginess to this story than what we’re hearing, though. McNair was 'likely' sleeping when he was shot, my eye.

I missed the original, official press conference, but I did get to listen to Chief Serpas later on 104.5 The Zone, hosted by George Plaster(ed). A one-sentence response by Serpas to a caller caught my immediate attention, and sent my overly vivid imagination careening...

Just before the top of the hour, a caller asked Serpas about how they knew that Sahel tried to position herself next to Steve on the couch before capping herself; his reply was something in the neighborhood of “she was...in his lap...but in the interests of the families I’m not…saying any more.” or something very close to that.

Well, just think about that, and also as to why Wayne Neely (Steve's condo-sharing buddy) didn’t call 9-11 immediately, and thought only to call Steve's best buddy Gaddy? I'm thinking it went something like this: when Wayne first arrived at their shared love-nest, he just quickly glanced in the living room, and the first thing he saw was the two of ‘em in the dark but discernably buck naked. Later, after hollering “you two get dressed !1!!” or something of the sort, and no response was forthcoming, he went in and discovered the rest of the story. Panic, and embarrassment. What to do? What to do?

And, do you really think Steve McNair was asleep when he was shot? Do you? Hmmmph.

I'm guessing he was allowed one last happy moment. What a distraction that would make, and also explain the lack of defensive wounds.

Remember, this little gal was one sick puppy, and obviously full of white-hot hatred. &c.

A woman scorned, and all of that.

Sheesh. Today, every man in the nation who has a mistress is having a great puckering in areas neighboring their backsides, methinks.

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Nashville Post Politics, AC Kleinheider, yesterday posted a decent post (well, he's been known to do that on occasion. This was one.) that shrugged the pigskin from the local Steve McNair hero worship we've heard from Coaches and teammates (where was your Michael Jackson post, ACK? I know, some things are just too big to buck). ACK's point...

But let’s not get carried away with the hero worship here.

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Let’s get real. Kazemi’s background screams vulnerability and emotional immaturity. No, McNair did nothing legally wrong by bedding this woman, other than violating the terms of his marriage contract, but, my God, were these the actions of an upstanding member of the community?

For McNair to shower this young woman, essentially a child, with gifts, affection and attention, all the while allowing her to operate under the delusion, according to reports, that he would marry her, is the height of emotional cruelty.

Seems the NFL Hall of Fame voters are tending to agree...

Jamison Hensley of the Baltimore Sun polled 24 of the 44 Hall of Fame voters regarding the question of whether quarterback Steve McNair's career merits a bronze bust in Canton.

Of the 24, 17 said no.

"I didn't consider McNair a Hall of Fame candidate before he died and don't consider him one now," Paul Domowitch of the Philadelphia Daily News told Hensley. "His numbers are nowhere close to being Hall of Fame-worthy.

Florio, author of PFT (the same guy who keeps an updated-daily counter, a "Turd Watch" consisting of NFL baddies in legal trouble) thinks differently...

There's a chance that, when McNair is first eligible for discussion, the stew of emotions and considerations could prompt the humans who'll decide the matter to regard McNair based on a blend of very good statistics, a high degree of likeability, and a tragic end to his life that more than outweighs any flaws he had. (That stuff at the end isn't supposed to count, and we'd believe that it doesn't if robots and computers did the voting.)

Keep it between the lines, right, Florio? Is that why your turd-counter-meter runs all year long? Oh, active NFL participants only, right? Their lives put up on a screen for just a few hours a week, for less than half a year, so when they are retired to pasture, that's gotta be kept out of their "Hall of Fame" considerations? I hope those humans with HOF voting privileges would be more considerate to integrity issues outside both the chalk- and time-lines.

I'd be remiss if I didn't give some thoughts to the circumstances of Steve's death. Otherwise, why blog?

I'm not going to bring in a 'third party' to speculation, even if there is a killer Rap ditty out there.

We have a very young 20 y.o. girl, Sahel (Jenny) Kazemi, who's been treated to the time of her life for the past few months; an Escalade, lavish trips, expensive who-knows-what-all; she's been publicly paraded around on the arm of a Local-National Hero. Does she even know or care about football? I dunno, but I'll bet those stats didn't matter to her. Then, Thursday night, things start to fly apart. A major DUI arrest in downtown Nashville.

Sahel goes to Metro Jail, and spends the night, likely for the first time. That had to be some scary times: Thursday Night in Nashville’s Drunk Tank for $5, please. Steve (having left her to go on to jail by herself; him leaving in a nice taxi) picks her up at 8:00 AM Friday morning.

By then, Steve’s probably remembering his own two sessions in jail (this time, featuring the same arresting officer as busted him in ‘03, and don’t I recall reading that someone reported they heard this officer stating he was ‘gonna get’ McNair, before that first bust? but that’s a different angle, but OH! the fondness of Steve's memories at this point!) AND the copious amounts of negative publicity he received. Oh, and the wife and kids are gonna find out because this is gonna be in the freakin' newspapers... thoughts that just might've (belatedly) put his mind to thinking, ruh roh, this is gotta stop ri cheer.

Steve might have told the young and super-freaked-out 'Jenny' that he's pulling the plug on their relationship, the goose is gonna stop shitting gold eggs; he’s turning (another) new leaf, yadda, yo. Go. Home. He takes her home.

Jenny gets a new (used) gun, later that day. First evah! gun purchase? Probably. (The individual who sold that nice trinket to Jenny is gonna be in deep doo-doo, and rightly so. I'd hate to be him.)

Something happened in the Condo, when Steve arrived early Saturday morning. All's we know for sure is that there were 4 shots, two to Steve's body and one each to a temple. Then a fifth shot. That's all we've been told.

I really hope the Nashville Police don't blow this one. If there is a third party, we must know. They are taking a lot of time to cover all their bases, processing evidence. CSI Nashville; if they find out something significant, different from the mountain of unofficial 'evidence' presented to the media, such would be beyond spectacular. They will get it right, right?

If there is a third party, I don't think that turd party should hold out hope that this will be a 'perfect murder' scenario. There's too much at stake for Nasvhille to have a grassy knoll.

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This is some smooth shit, my man. antioch's finest, KaNe, the 'boy' friend of Sahel Kazemi.

Yo, you, listen up. Punk gonna rap sumptin' to you, old man.

Closed Coffin

I don’t wanna be like this, I don’t really wanna hurt no feelings
but I’m only being real when I say nobody wanna see an old man collapse
'an old men have heart attacks, I don’t wanna be responsible for that
so let the shit go and walk away, you can still have a little bit of dignity.

I would never claim to be no Benjamin Tebow, an 83 year-old fake Pacino
so how could he run his mouth about me, knowing nothing about me I love it when a dumbass doubts me
until I pull the pistol out proudly, put the clip in his mouth til this motherfucker shouts, ‘please don’t kill’

Have you sippin through a straw for the next 8 months that’s if you even make it through it alive you dumb fuck

Try to stunt and front and fronting in front of somebody else
Till you're surrounded by 20 people with nobody’s help
And if you try to go incredible hulk it won’t work
Put so many holes in you your nerves won’t even jerk
Lurking in the shadows thinking and scheming will work
Got a little cocky so you decided to flirt
Now you’re flirting with daddy
You got a lesson to learn
Hurtin' everybody else now the tables are turned
And now it's your turn
time to feel the pain
Well a little of it until the bullet enters your brain
Are you insane? I'm the pushover? I'm the bitch?
You need to pull your panties down take a look at your clit

Fuckin's pussy, all apologetic now,
you just sorry someone's finally figured you out
How's it feel to play a game created by you
think your winning for so long and fuck up and lose
You a loser, just a class A lame
Over the hill need a thrill cause you question your game
you secure so you want to throw dirt on my name
got caught, now your lost with no one to blame

You lack confidence bitch? Well I don't blame you
If I act like a kid shit I'd be insane too

But that's what lames do: think lame thoughts in their brain until it came true
But that's kind of what KaNe do
Deal with the pain until he goes insane and loads an A.K. up puts a round in your frame and another round in your mouth for the shit that you claim

You're a shit stain
report his life in the drain
made it through take two now and you doin' the same
And you do it again as long as you can get by wit it
but I'm not buyin' it so bitch just try it
Your not gonna like it if you see my face
if you ever do it again I'll leave you right in the place
that you're standin' in.
And I'll put that on my life, it's either me or you, bitch, so you best think twice

I'd like to hear your thoughts now bitch here's you a penny
Thinkin' easy win, right, cause he's just too skinny?
You don't need fists bitch, if you got two clips

[unintelligible. And I'm trained at this. -ed.]

You don't understand, this is not the '70's
you need a new plan if you looking for longevity
you need to rest it's a blessing you still alive
well, for you anyway I could care less if you died I wouldn't cry
'cause you lied to me and my family
you're my closest sister so let me paint you a picture
If you ever do it again bitch I'm not rappin'
I'm getting a clip and clappin'
and I'm not laughing
They're wrappin' you up for your little trip to the morgue
while I'm preparing for my trip to the shores

Don't ignore me I'm not lying
I couldn't be more honest
If you ever do it again you'll die I promise.

Then repeat the first few shitty lines.

Yeah. (I tried to get the lyrics right this time; the folks at Nashville Post didn't do very well. They just didn't have the heart for it I suppose...)

This ain't the '70's no more, is it?

Someone needs some bar soap shoved down their pie-hole. Or, needed, is the key word I suppose.

What a load of cRap.

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These were...ummm..happier times, obviously.

You'd think he was cavorting with family or something, the way he's smiling.




Oh, I brazenly lifted these pics from that guy what got punched out in Canada a couple weeks ago; you know, the azzhole who ran his faggy mouth at Carrie Prejean?

I don't like him so much, and won't link to his site.



Needs another black eye, methinks. I'm all up for obliging.    )

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“She is the sweetest girl, and she did not deserve this. He was making her believe they were going to be together, and everything would be perfect,” Norfleet said.

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Norfleet said he and Kazemi had been dating for four years and broke up about five months ago. Norfleet claims Kazemi told him she was dating McNair and met him while working as a waitress at Dave & Busters. He said he was worried about her dating a married man.

Ummm, remember in my initial "Steve's Dead !!!ELEVENTY!!11!!!" post I said that Steve McNair was a 'family man'?

I take that back now.

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This just in...

Former Titan QB Steve McNair Found Dead

Fire Officials, Titans Confirm Death

POSTED: 3:38 pm CDT July 4, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville fire officials and Titans' sources have confirmed that former Titans QB Steve McNair has been shot to death at an apartment in downtown Nashville.

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Steve McNair was 36 years young. He leaves behind a wife, Mechelle, and four sons: Junior, Steven, Tyler and Trenton.