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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: manimtired on November 26, 2007, 11:47:00 am
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damn..
http://www3.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI68880/ (http://www3.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI68880/)
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I don't follow the Skins, but this guy sounds like a real winner, not.
Taylor has been in trouble numerous times since he was drafted as the No. 5 overall pick in 2004. He has been fined at least seven times during his professional career for late hits and other infractions, including a $17,000 penalty for spitting in the face of Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman during a playoff game in January 2006. He also was fined $25,000 for skipping a mandatory rookie symposium shortly after he was drafted.
Redskins coaches and players have defended Taylor, saying he was smart and misunderstood. Taylor has been slow let anyone into his inner circle. He has rarely spoken to reporters, saying he does not trust them. Teammates said he became more mature over the last year after he became a father for the first time.
In 2005, Taylor was accused of brandishing a gun at a man and repeatedly hitting him during a fight that broke out after Taylor and some friends went looking for the people who had allegedly stolen his all-terrain vehicles.
Taylor reached a deal with prosecutors last year after they agreed to drop felony charges against him. He pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors in the assault case and was sentenced to 18 months probation. The pleas prompted another fine from the NFL but kept his football career intact.
He also was ordered to talk about the importance of education at 10 Miami schools and had to contribute $1,000 for scholarships to each of those schools.
The man Taylor allegedly hit, Ryan Hill, sued, seeking at least $15,000 in damages. Hill sustained bruises to his body, incurred medical expenses and lost wages because of the fight, the lawsuit said.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
I don't follow the Skins, but this guy sounds like a real winner, not.
Taylor has been in trouble numerous times since he was drafted as the No. 5 overall pick in 2004. He has been fined at least seven times during his professional career for late hits and other infractions, including a $17,000 penalty for spitting in the face of Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman during a playoff game in January 2006. He also was fined $25,000 for skipping a mandatory rookie symposium shortly after he was drafted.
Redskins coaches and players have defended Taylor, saying he was smart and misunderstood. Taylor has been slow let anyone into his inner circle. He has rarely spoken to reporters, saying he does not trust them. Teammates said he became more mature over the last year after he became a father for the first time.
In 2005, Taylor was accused of brandishing a gun at a man and repeatedly hitting him during a fight that broke out after Taylor and some friends went looking for the people who had allegedly stolen his all-terrain vehicles.
Taylor reached a deal with prosecutors last year after they agreed to drop felony charges against him. He pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors in the assault case and was sentenced to 18 months probation. The pleas prompted another fine from the NFL but kept his football career intact.
He also was ordered to talk about the importance of education at 10 Miami schools and had to contribute $1,000 for scholarships to each of those schools.
The man Taylor allegedly hit, Ryan Hill, sued, seeking at least $15,000 in damages. Hill sustained bruises to his body, incurred medical expenses and lost wages because of the fight, the lawsuit said.
please stfu..
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
including a $17,000 penalty for spitting in the face of Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman during a playoff game in January 2006.
to be fair, Pittman is a recidivist wife-beater ... he once stalked down his wife and child in his landrover and slammed into their car to get them to stop ... i actually thought it was a fun fight between the two of them, and one of the most ridiculous playoff games ever (redskins won with approximately 42 yards of total offense)
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this guy does have a temper problem but when your at the level that he is at life you can't afford to be a pussy. And really this stuff happens all the time...Im actually a redskin fan and this guy is known to be very quiet and never talks to the media...none of this stuff makes him a bad person just problems he's had in his life.
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Originally posted by Lambofgodfan:
this guy does have a temper problem but when your at the level that he is at life you can't afford to be a pussy.
On the field maybe, but when you're off the field you're expected to be civil just like the other citizens in your community.
Oh, and sptitting at someone is never acceptable.
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Originally posted by Lambofgodfan:
this guy does have a temper problem but when your at the level that he is at life you can't afford to be a pussy.
"you're"
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by Lambofgodfan:
this guy does have a temper problem but when your at the level that he is at life you can't afford to be a pussy.
"you're" [/b]
LMAO this a forum..if you care about my grammar so much you have no life..
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No but think about this way: if you know how to spell, it might increase the validity of the point you're trying to make. Otherwise, people are going to dismiss you as being a fucking ignorant dumbass. Just sayin'.
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Rotoworld reports that he's in a coma and has been "stabilizing."
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Originally posted by serpent boy:
Rotoworld reports that he's in a coma and has been "stabilizing."
Have they announced that Ricky Williams is starting tonight for the injured Jesse Chatman?
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I'm really glad I'm at a level in life where I can afford to be a pussy.
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As of now the Miami police have ruled out two potential suspects.
Kevin Dubrow and the guy from Hawthorne Heights.
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Post of the week, fam.
Originally posted by eros:
As of now the Miami police have ruled out two potential suspects.
Kevin Dubrow and the guy from Hawthorne Heights.
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Originally posted by bearman:
Otherwise, people are going to dismiss you as being a fucking ignorant dumbass. Just sayin'.
"saying"
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
Originally posted by bearman:
Otherwise, people are going to dismiss you as being a fucking ignorant dumbass. Just sayin'.
"saying" [/b]
a·pos·tro·phe (ə-pŏs'trə-fē)
n.
The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition. In classical rhetoric, the term could also denote a speaker's turning to address a particular member or section of the audience.
I'm going with Classical Rhetoric on the part of Bearman in addressing Lambofgodfan. It was actually rather clever; sorry you missed it.
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blast! i knew i should have paid more attention to my various rhetoric tutors during my tenure at middlesex!
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Originally posted by Lambofgodfan:
Originally posted by sweetcell:
"you're"
LMAO this a forum..if you care about my grammar so much you have no life.. [/b]
what bearman said. write like an 8 year old, be taken as seriously as an 8 year old. it's not just your mistake with "your/you're", at times you're not making any sense:
Originally posted by Lambofgodfan:
but when your at the level that he is at life
Originally posted by Lambofgodfan:
LMAO this a forum..
and is this what prolonged exposure to lamb of god does to the listener?
<cue the reply with someone taking issue with my lack of capitalization>
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According to various reports this is the third time in two weeks that someone has broken into (or attempted to break into) Taylor's house. Last weekend, somebody broke in, rifled through his belongings, stole nothing, but left a knife on his bed. Last night, somebody breaks in, goes straight to his bedroom and shoots him in the groin? This sounds like something other than a robbery.
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If the movie Boyz In The Hood and Tupac and B.I.G. taught me anything its that you don't want to cross into a point of no return with the wrong dudes. When Taylor pulled a gun on those dudes in 2005, that was like a Doughboy/Ricky or 'Hit 'em Up' moment.
Also, when Tupac was originally shot in 1994 it was called a 'robbery' but who knows what the real motive was (then and here).
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Bearman teaches yet another valuable lesson in life. I love how any argument can happen in this forum while the topic is about someone's death. This is more fun than blabbermouth, but really because I go to this club.
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btw i hear sean taylor is in a coma and i wish him a full recovery.
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Thanks...I'm glad someone is learning something of value around here.
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Sean has now passed away. RIP
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Word. All reports say the guy had really turned his life around in the past year of so. It looks like past deeds may have come back to haunt.
RIP, and best hopes for his baby girl.
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I'm not a Skins fan (and definitely not a Miami Hurricanes fan), but this is really sad (notwithstanding my flippant comments above).
The scary part of this story is that he supposedly knew that he was being targeted and someone broke into his house a week prior, leaving a knife there as a "sign". Why in god's name was he staying there with his girlfriend and BABY?!
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Originally posted by chaz:
Word. All reports say the guy had really turned his life around in the past year of so.
unless you're pol pot or something, people generally speak well of the dead/dying
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
unless you're Julian, good manners AFICIONADO or something, people generally speak well of the dead
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What a loss. Taylor was such a talented player.
My heart goes out to his family, friends, teammates and the entire Washington community.
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Does anyone think that this Sunday's game could be postponed because of this?
Do you know of any recent case like this one, when a team had to play after a terrible loss of one of their players?
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game will not be postponed - not an official fact, just my very very self-assured belief. would be happy to bet on it :)
no, i've never heard of a game being delayed for a death.
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Live radio show (http://lightningstream.surfernetwork.com/Media/player/view/wwxx3.asp?call=wwxx&skin=WWXX) on now.
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
Originally posted by chaz:
Word. All reports say the guy had really turned his life around in the past year of so.
unless you're pol pot or something, people generally speak well of the dead/dying [/b]
No, this was the general concensus before this incident.
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Originally posted by chaz:
Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
Originally posted by chaz:
Word. All reports say the guy had really turned his life around in the past year of so.
unless you're pol pot or something, people generally speak well of the dead/dying [/b]
No, this was the general concensus before this incident. [/b]
well, maybe he did turn a corner, but i liked wilbon's skeptical take on it during his chat yesterday
Columbia, Md.: What makes you think that Taylor was still embracing his old ways? Everything we have heard from the Redskins and Portis is that this is a new Sean. Apparently the birth of his child really helped to straighten him out. Is this contrary to what you know?
Michael Wilbon: Sorry, but I'm not in the habit of having companies with their own public relations agenda tell me about black men and what they feel or don't feel. Pardon me if I'm not that easy.
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
game will not be postponed - not an official fact, just my very very self-assured belief. would be happy to bet on it :)
no, i've never heard of a game being delayed for a death.
not for football at least (other than 9/11). . .baseball will postpone games for deaths of active players though.
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Except it was his teammates (not the PR firms) saying they saw a change in Taylor.
Wilbon is good at representing the 'outsiders' perspective.
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Originally posted by Mobius:
Except it was his teammates (not the PR firms) saying they saw a change in Taylor.
i really don't mean to belabor the point, but if a reporter asked me if my friend had changed for the better, i'd probably respond in the affirmative
not saying the guy was gang-banging on his off-days, just offering some healthy skepticism
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
Originally posted by Mobius:
Except it was his teammates (not the PR firms) saying they saw a change in Taylor.
i really don't mean to belabor the point, but if a reporter asked me if my friend had changed for the better, i'd probably respond in the affirmative
not saying the guy was gang-banging on his off-days, just offering some healthy skepticism [/b]
I hear you...21 was definately no angel and there's a really good chance that past misdeeds had come back to haunt him and ultimately cost him his life. I don't share Wilbon's opinion that this is no big shock or no surprise or whatever he said. This is shocking and surprising news. But if you asked me which Redskin this was most likely to happen to Taylor would have been my answer.
Just sayin...long before this happened many folks around him had been commenting that he's done a lot of growing up since some of his past troubles.
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Taylor's Death Is Tragic but Not Surprising (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112701111.html?hpid=topnews)
By Leonard Shapiro
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, November 27, 2007; 12:28 PM
A few years ago, I was allowed to spend what became a thoroughly illuminating afternoon at the NFL's rookie symposium, then, a four-day session held at Lansdowne Resort near Leesburg. Every drafted rookie was and still is required to attend an annual event designed to prepare the players for a wide variety of issues they would soon be facing as highly visible professional athletes.
One of the more compelling elements that day was a series of skits put on by a professional acting troupe based in New York. A wide variety of scenarios was played out on the stage; from a scene in a club showing an athlete losing his temper when his girlfriend was groped by a drunken bar fly to a young player confronted by his larcenous cousin wanting him to buy a recently stolen sound system at a very reduced rate.
At the dramatic high point of each presentation, at about the time the player would have to make a very critical and potentially life-altering decision, a voice offstage would scream out "FREEZE!!!!!" and the actors literally stopped and became living, breathing statues. At that point, a discussion leader stepped out and opened the floor to comments and questions on how the fictional player would have, and should have handled that situation.
Consequences was the theme of the day. Everything you do has consequences, and even more so when you are young, rich and a highly visible professional athlete.
I've been thinking about that symposium ever since the news broke Monday morning that Sean Taylor, the Redskins Pro Bowl safety had been shot in an apparent burglary attempt at his home in a suburban Miami neighborhood. Tragically, Taylor died early Tuesday morning from a bullet that severed the femoral artery in his groin area. The massive loss of blood was too much for even this seemingly superbly conditioned athlete to overcome.
He was only 24, the father of an 18-month-old baby girl who was also in the house along with her mother, Taylor's girlfriend. And this was for real. No symposium. No actors. No questions and answers from the audience, and certainly no one around to yell "FREEZE!!!! before the madness in Miami escalated into murder. The consequence of who knows what?
At the moment, it is far too soon to draw any conclusions as to how or why this tragedy occurred, why another young black man is now dead from a gunshot wound in his own home, why another athlete, Michael Vick, Pacman Jones, Tank Johnson, and now Sean Taylor becomes headline news for all the wrong reasons.
Certainly it would be terribly easy to rush toward some sort of instant judgment based on what we think we all knew about Taylor and the sort of life he once, and for all we know, still led. But really, we know nothing at the moment, and until we do, "may he rest in peace" ought to be the operative phrase for this day.
Still, could anyone honestly say they never saw this coming? You'd have to be blind not to considering Taylor's checkered past. It was only a few months after he was drafted, when we got something of an inkling of what sort of young man the Redskins were selecting out of the University of Miami with the fifth overall selection in 2004.
For one, Taylor brazenly skipped the rookie symposium he was required to attend his first year, and was fined accordingly by the NFL. You also can look at the timeline of his professional life printed on this web site or in the newspaper and draw your own preliminary conclusions.
Over the first few years Taylor was in the league, he bounced from one scrape to another, blowing off the symposium, disrespecting Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs by not showing up for mandatory offseason workouts and never calling to explain why, running afoul of the law in a widely reported shooting incident in South Florida and very nearly going to jail.
On the field, Taylor often was a thoroughly undisciplined player who loved to make bold statements with vicious and often dangerous hits that occasionally got him tossed from games. Clearly, he seemed to embrace the thug image on and off the field, and the fact that he rarely spoke to members of the media only enhanced his reputation as a moody, enigmatic athlete we hardly ever got to know.
My colleague, Post columnist and ESPN broadcaster Michael Wilbon was asked about Taylor during his weekly internet web site discussion Monday and said, "I've known guys like Taylor all my life, grew up with some. They still have shades of gray and shouldn't be painted in black and white.
"I know how I feel about Taylor, and this latest news isn't surprising in the least, not to me. Whether this incident is or isn't random, Taylor grew up in a violent world, embraced it, claimed it, loved to run in it and refused to divorce himself from it. He ain't the first and won't be the last. We have no idea what happened, or if what we know now will be revised later. It's sad, yes, but hardly surprising."
In the wake of his shooting, we are now hearing about a so-called new Sean Taylor, a guy who seemed to be getting his life back in order, perhaps because of the birth of his child. Maybe a light bulb finally went off in his head. He was even enjoying arguably the best season of his career until he was derailed by a knee injury two weeks ago.
After a loss to Dallas two weeks ago, everyone around here, and in the Redskins locker room, was saying there was no way Terrell Owens would have caught four touchdown passes if Taylor had been patrolling the middle of the field, prepared to pounce and pound the yappy receiver any chance he got.
And on Monday, a stream of Redskins players and coaches were paraded in front of the cameras and microphones at Redskins Park to testify that Taylor had truly turned his life around for the better.
"The man changed his life," said running back Clinton Portis, his best friend and a former Miami teammate. "That man changed his mentality, changed his attitude. He came to work with a defined happiness."
But now, Sean Taylor will never come to work again. Never mind the impact of his loss on the football team, the last thing anyone ought to be thinking about at the moment. Instead, we need to focus on why this unspeakable tragedy happened and how we can keep it from happening to so many other young men soon to be attending rookie symposiums of their own.
If everything we're hearing about his life turnaround is true, surely Taylor would have been a marvelous speaker to show up at the 2008 session this spring. Maybe this time, when the man off stage shouts "FREEZE!!!!" everyone in the room will be thinking about truth, and consequences and surely paying a lot more attention.
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this is not hfstival.com
Originally posted by Lambofgodfan:
Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by Lambofgodfan:
this guy does have a temper problem but when your at the level that he is at life you can't afford to be a pussy.
"you're" [/b]
LMAO this a forum..if you care about my grammar so much you have no life.. [/b]
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it's been an upsetting couple of days, and i'm *just* a fan. my thoughts and prayers are with sean's family, friends, and his redskins family.
and to put it simply: thank you, mike wise:
Death of Taylor Leaves Nothing but Disbelief (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112701697.html?hpid=topnews)
By Mike Wise
Tuesday, November 27, 2007; 3:49 PM
In other places, it is time to dissect the senselessness, to understand what terrible, awful events led up to the death of Sean Taylor -- to figure out why a kid who had everything to live for seemingly died for nothing.
Today in Ashburn, the most numbing and tragic day in franchise history, there are only looks of disbelief, tears and a deepening hurt that won't go away.
Red-eyed teammates, some inconsolable. Weeping coaches, trying to hold it together. Shaken team employees, comforting big, strong grown men who have spent their whole existence learning to hide pain instead of dealing with it.
Reed Doughty choked back tears. Someone asked if he was crying.
"Of course," he began, about to break down, "It's real."
Pete Kendall was asked if he had spoken to his children about Taylor's death. "I'm sure that will come," he said. "They asked and my wife and I just tried to explain to them there was a situation."
Compared to usual protocol around the Redskins, the scene is just so surreal. In the NFL, Tuesday is considered an off day, a time to rest bodies and recuperate for the next week's game. Who among them ever believed they would be mourning the passing of a teammate?
Taylor, the enigmatic Redskins safety, is dead at 24 years old. He died during the night after earlier reports that he had been responsive to attending physicians. Everyone who left Redskins Park in Ashburn last night around midnight had their cautious optimism stripped away sometime after 6 a.m., the moment we learned of his death.
He's gone? He's gone.
And for what, men seeking his material wealth? Revenge? His fearless nature? No one is sure today. No one here cares. They all weep and wonder how it is that a young, virile Pro Bowl safety -- the player Sports Illustrated tabbed the hardest hitter in the NFL -- did not wake up this morning to begin the long road to recovery.
They all swallow hard and wonder how such a strong, resilient kid, whose on-field collisions brought back memories of Ronnie Lott and Jack Tatum and all the game's ferocious defenders, somehow was shot in his own home and became yet another Miami-Dade County homicide victim.
It should be mentioned that, disturbingly in this violent country, Sean Taylor became another young, black male whose dreams perished before his 25th birthday. He just happened to be richer and more famous than the rest.
The scene here is just so surreal, almost incomprehensible. No one here today could even remember the last time a professional team's star athlete was murdered in the middle of the season. Lyman Bostock Jr., maybe. Bostock was a rising star for the Minnesota Twins in 1978, who carried the namesake of his father, a former Negro Leagues star. While visiting an uncle the week before the season ended, he was mistakenly shot by a man aiming for his estranged wife. He died at 27. Like Taylor, Bostock had less than four complete seasons before his death.
In the Washington area, the only thing that comes close is former University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias's cocaine-induced death in June of 1986 after he was drafted by the Boston Celtics. He was just 22 years old.
Like Bias, Taylor had so much in front of him -- an 18-month-old daughter to raise, a football career to further distinguish himself, maybe one day a bust in Canton, Ohio, beside all the other Hall of Famers. At the very least, a long life to lead. And now there is nothing.
NFL players are often freakish, and not just in physical stature. If they are among the largest and strongest men in the world, they also pride themselves on their ability to manage pain, especially emotional pain. Acknowledging that kind of hurt is still, sadly, considered a weakness.
In some ways they are more unprepared to deal with Taylor's experience than most people. When elite athletes gear the mind to be impervious toward shortcomings -- when they begin to believe the myth of their own invincibility -- it is that much more difficult to get in touch with their own mortality.
And yet there was Clinton Portis before he boarded a plane for Miami, his voice about to break, distilling what we all felt when he said, "This ain't nothing you live and die for."
"What you live and die for is your kids, you live and die for your family and that's what Sean was doing," Portis said.
For much of his brief career Taylor distrusted the media, feeling he had been unfairly portrayed as a University of Miami thug while also at the same time refusing to publicly acknowledge his role in that perception. A sincere attempt to get Taylor to open up in an interview last month went nowhere; the trust just wasn't there. Sad, isn't it, that the player who often barely said a word is having his life talked about incessantly today?
There are millions of questions about this young man to be debated. His past, some of which was criminal and could easily be construed as violent. His decision to return to South Florida and lose contact again with his coach, Joe Gibbs. And Taylor's connection to the controversial Miami football program, which just last season had a player murdered outside his apartment complex during the season.
In the wake of his death, it's fair to ask if any or all of this contributed to his life being taken. But not here, not in Ashburn.
Before quickly considering this is a criminal case or foolishly stereotyping this as "a U. thing," Taylor's death should be considered a people issue. In the parking lot of a Northern Virginia office building -- at a National Football League training facility, of all places -- this is simply about a young man who died too soon and left his teammates, friends and extended family groping for answers to a tragedy.
The truth is, whatever Taylor was, whatever his past, he made a sincere effort to alter what people thought of him before he died. "That man changed his life, that man changed his mentality, changed his attitude, he came to work with a defined happiness," Portis said on Monday, as Taylor was still clinging to life in Miami.
This team is somehow supposed to play a football game on Sunday, but right now it feels so distant. As the people with red, bleary eyes keep coming through the door, there is no blessing in disguise here, no payoff to this story that can make the pain and the tears disappear. There is just sadness and the unending feeling that nothing will be the same here anymore, where Sean Taylor plied his trade daily after he pulled into his painted, No. 21 parking space.
Today, along with the grief in Ashburn, it is all that is left.
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RIP Sean Taylor.
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This is incredibly sad (from a rare interview in 2005 after his arrest regarding the ATV incident):
"I never ever, ever want to put myself in that situation. If I die, at least let it be in my sleep or an accident or something.
"It's something that makes me kind of think 10 steps ahead now: Getting shot at ain't something nice. I'm not talking about one or two bullets. I'm talking about a whole lot of bullets. It was a shocker. Man, these people don't care if you don't wake up tomorrow.
"I don't even know how to explain it. You would almost have to be in my shoes. There's so much more to live for than to go out by a bullet. I can't even put it in the correct words."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073100516_2.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073100516_2.html)
RIP
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He was obviously targeted. Why? Maybe the facts will come out eventually.
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I dont know if he was targeted. If they were targeting him, to kill him, I think they would have probably fired more than two shots seeing one missed and one hit his leg.
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Maybe it was targeted, and the intention was to wound, not to kill.
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Or maybe they got a little freaked out when dude started swinging a motherfuckin' machete at their face. That would most likely cause me to forget my immediate assassination plans and run like hell. Of course, that would be after soiling my pants.
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Maybe it was targeted, and the intention was to wound, not to kill.
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it will be interesting if/when they catch the person who did this. ive read that they dont have any leads. one would think that friends or family would know if he had any major problems with someone. we shall see...
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Originally posted by manimtired:
one would think that friends or family would know if he had any major problems with someone. we shall see...
snitches get stitches
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Report: NFL Had Previously Warned Sean Taylor About Spending Quiet Evenings Alone At Home
[source] (http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/report_nfl_had_previously)
MIAMIâ??Immediately after Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died from gunshot wounds sustained when an unknown intruder broke into his Florida mansion and assaulted Taylor, NFL officials announced that they had warned the Pro Bowler against indulging in such risky behavior as sleeping quietly in his own home. "We communicated to Mr. Taylor several times that his lifestyle, including his insistence on living in a high-crime city and associating with such known troublemakers as NFL players, was potentially dangerous," a statement from the league's legal department read in part. "Although we are greatly saddened by Mr. Taylor's death, we feel we have lived up to our responsibilities in this matter." Following the announcement of Taylor's death, spokesmen for the league reached out to all NFL players and warned them of the risks of doing absolutely anything whatsoever.
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http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1300211&nid=293 (http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1300211&nid=293)
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what happened to the good old days when football players just did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cwPZ6Q0A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cwPZ6Q0A)
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So it does sound like he was targeted because he was a rich NFL player. From what I've read it seems the neighborhood consists of older, retired folks. The storm shutters were down, so maybe they assumed nobody was home. So, a botched robbery by young, stupid kids.
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Originally posted by Shemp:
The storm shutters were down, so maybe they assumed nobody was home. So, a botched robbery by young, stupid kids.
I'm not at that conclusion just yet. If you think no one is home and someone is home, you run, especially if the bed room door is locked or is blocked. You don't kick the bedroom door in unless you want a piece of what's behind door number one.
And if you think no one is going to be home, why did you bring a gun?
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guess it was a botched robbery
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1201taylor,0,1554859.story?coll=sofla_tab01_layout (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1201taylor,0,1554859.story?coll=sofla_tab01_layout)
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myspaces of 3 of the guys who killed sean taylor ...bunch of winners here...one apparently has a promising music career...
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=54829123 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=54829123)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=105813923 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=105813923)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=251964564 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=251964564)