In the months following the murder of former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair, CBS Sports has interviewed NFL players to see if the circumstances that led to McNair's death in a murder-suicide have scared other players from cheating on their wives. Even Chiefs wide receiver Chris Chambers is having his personal life dissected.
Chris Chambers has learned the value of fidelity
CBS Sports published its findings in a lengthy feature yesterday, using Chambers as a cautionary tale of how getting some strange tang will screw up your career.
The San Diego Chargers released Chambers last month, at least partly due to the publicity surrounding an extramarital affair he was having with a woman named Stacey Saunders.
Saunders allegedly began harassing Chambers' wife, Christina, and according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Chambers requested a temporary restraining order against Saunders.
"Beginning in April, Ms. Saunders became aware that our affair, now broken off, was known to my wife," Chambers wrote in his request. "Since then she [Saunders] has launched an incessant attack verbally on me, and now my wife, her mother and sister. All calls, text messages and e-mails are abusive, vulgar and irrational. They have begun to mention intimate details of my life such as my son, home address, and family member locations."
Chambers' marriage didn't last, but he came clean to the media. Chambers believed the affair tainted the Chargers' view of him and so the team released him.
"I guess it created a distraction upstairs ...," said Chambers. "They [knew] a little too much of my life, and they used it against me."
After San Diego released him in November, Kansas City picked him up.
Whatever sins Chambers committed, putting on a Chiefs jersey should be penance enough.
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