MIAMI – Vince Young is making good on his promise.
At the funeral for his slain friend Steve McNair this past summer, a devastated and teary Young vowed to treat McNair’s sons as his own. So for a father-son breakfast at the kids’ schoo
Young making good on his promise to McNair family by Tim Reynolds MIAMI – Vince Young is making good on his promise. At the funeral for his slain friend Steve McNair this past summer, a devastated and teary Young vowed to treat McNair’s sons as his own. So for a father-son breakfast at the kids’ school back in September, Young was there, eating pancakes and signing autographs. At Tennessee home games, McNair’s boys were regulars in seats Young arranged. And at the Pro Bowl, those two kids, McNair’s widow and mother-in-law shared in the experience‚ as Young’s guests. Young completed 6 of 12 passes for 47 yards and an interception in Sunday’s Pro Bowl, won 41-34 by the AFC‚ details which couldn’t really have mattered less to the Titans quarterback. This week was about Trenton and Tyler, the 11- and 5-year-old boys who’ll continue their path to adulthood without their father, a void Young is trying to fill as best he can. “The thing is, Steve would do the same for me,” Young said Sunday night. The thing is, McNair already has done the same for Young. McNair was his mentor, just one of many ways their paths were linked. McNair was the Titans’ quarterback until 2005. The next year, Tennessee drafted Young, and McNair hooked on with Baltimore for his final two NFL seasons. Still, they were close, so close that Young called McNair “Pops.” What McNair knew, he tried to teach Young, anything and everything, on the field and off, professional life and personal life. They were lessons Young never forgot. This is how he’s returning those favors. “Sometimes we just hang out,” Young said. “They come to my house.” AP
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