Sean Taylor (R.I.P.)

[Bernini]

Anytime someone loses their life at such a young age....it's especially sad. He had 10-15 more years possibly to carve out his legacy, and be remembered, as one of the best NFL DB's ever. I doubt concomittantly would have been the next Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Edison in the area of intellectual pursuits, but he could have had an epiphany where he became charitable with the many advantages he'd been given. If you're a troubled person, as he reportedly was, you're not necessarily stubborn and set in your ways, and thus change is possible. He supposedly was in the midst of a maturation process.

Also, it's especially sad when your life is taken not by your own hand, or the hand of nature or God, but the hand of another. Someone thought they were justified to circumvent the natural life progression of another, and induce its premature conclusion, as a fellow human being who is less qualified to make that determination.

Plus, he has a young daughter who has no male role model, and won't ever have a concious memories of her father. Not to mention the heartache of his wife and other family members.

RIP

 

[614]

You can take the thug out of the U, but you can't take the U out of the thug.

un called for


RIP Sean

 

[billmac91]

It's sad to me when people make a situation like this trivial. It's an unbeleievably sad situation where a young guy lost his life, most likely over something very small or not his fault at all.

I know it's easy to try and connect the dots of a previous break-in (where a knife was left on his pillow), and his murder but until further facts are discovered people should temper their classless comments.

Is it that far-fetched to think theres someone out there who knows Seans' address and decided to break in on an away game. Truthfully, my first reaction was he must have crossed the wrong people, but when you think about it, his house was broken into during an away game the first time and it was broken into during an away game the second time. Only difference is he didn't travel due to injury last week.

Maybe he did mess with the wrong people, but maybe it was wrong place-wrong time too. Please wait until some facts come in before youlabel his death as thuggery.

 

[614]

He wasint even a thug, That's the funny thing about it..People making comments quick to make judgement..Yes. He had problems off the field, But that def don't make him a thug.

 

[Captain Hindsight]

This whole ordeal is certainly tragic news, and my thoughts and prayers are with the Taylor family and Redskins' organization.

I hate to pull a Tibor, but Sean Taylor was a thug and from what it sounds like left this earth a thug. Since this guy set foot on a football field (whether at the U or FedEx Field), it was very obvious that he was a thug (ie. spitting on another football player).

Something with this whole shooting is very fishy. What kind of guy leaves a machete at his bed for protection? What kind of NFL superstar-caliber player does not have bodyguards or dogs protecting his house?

Friends and close sources of Taylor have said he was making a U-turn and turning his life around. I hope for his sake that this is true. However, I am a skeptic and am having a hard time believing these statements.

Taylor was a ferocious, hard-hitting and incredible talent. From the information I have gathered though, I will remember him more as an excellent football player and off-field issues, though, than his personal and moral excellence.

I hope for his sake that I am wrong about my perception of him as a human, but I am human and have never met him. Therefore, I can only assume based off of what I have heard and/or seen.

RIP 21.

 

[billmac91]

I disagree with a lot of this, especially during these circumstances.

I remember Sean spitting on Michael Pittman, but I also have no idea what was said during the transgression or what happened earlier in the game/play. Robbie Alomar also spit on someone during play but for the most part is rememberd as a classy player.

The Seam Mohrman hit is also a black-eye on his career, but he hit a player in-between the lines on a fake punt. Again, obviosuly a bad move, but far from enough to label him a thug.

I'd just caution people to wait for some hard eveidence to come out. Again, it's not too far-fetched to think a desperate human tried breaking into a home where an NFL player and his family should have been out of town for an away game.

Who really knows what triggered such a violent transgression? It's also suspicious he was shot in the groin and not in a more fatal area. It's just too early, IMO, to be calling this guy a thug who died because of his lifestyle.

 

[starBUCKS]

Something with this whole shooting is very fishy. What kind of guy leaves a machete at his bed for protection? What kind of NFL superstar-caliber player does not have bodyguards or dogs protecting his house?

I don't know of one NFL player that has a hired "bodyguard" and we all know about NFL players and vicious dogs.

 

[methomps]

Yeah, I don't think players hiring bodyguards is the norm.

 

[614]

I hate to pull a Tibor, but Sean Taylor was a thug and from what it sounds like left this earth a thug. Since this guy set foot on a football field (whether at the U or FedEx Field), it was very obvious that he was a thug (ie. spitting on another football player).

lol..that dont make anybody a thug..come on

And about the whole knife thing..It was a butterknife that was prolly used to break into the home

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Sean Taylor | 1983-2007
Death leaves Redskins stunned
Teammates recall change in Taylor as police investigate
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:16 AM
By Joseph White


ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kevin Wolf Associated Press
Fans comfort each other near a makeshift memorial for Sean Taylor in Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va. The Redskins will wear Taylor's No. 21 on their helmets.



ASHBURN, Va. -- Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder's eyes were red. His voice cracked. Next to him sat coach Joe Gibbs, barely more composed.
Safety Sean Taylor's violent death left his team in tears and a league in mourning.
Taylor died early yesterday of a gunshot wound from an apparent intruder, a tragic end for a 24-year-old whose life was transformed by the birth of a daughter 18 months ago.

Continued.......

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Tragedy follows Hurricanes

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:03 AM



South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Sean Taylor is the latest in a string of deaths of former Miami Hurricanes:
? Dec. 13, 1989: Kevin Gibbs, 20, a redshirt freshman fullback, died when the car he was riding in crashed into a utility pole.
? May 3, 1992: Shane Curry, 24, a reserve defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts, was shot and killed during an argument over a blocked vehicle in Cincinnati.

Continued.....

 

[scooter1369]

un called for


RIP Sean

wah

 

[patel.748]

As a person in the medical profession. I have seen a lot of gang related violence when I did my internship last summer in Youngstown. I saw a lot of DOA arriving to the hospital with a gun shot(s) to the femoral triangle area. Gang members have gotten smarter and I think they do this so the person suffers because the person shot bleeds out slowly...a more painful death then lead to the head. I highly doubt the killer missed, I feel Taylor was marked and someone was paid to take him out.

 

[tsteele316]

lol..that dont make anybody a thug..come on

And about the whole knife thing..It was a butterknife that was prolly used to break into the home

one may argue that felonious assault with an illegal firearm over an ATV would make one a thug.

taylor's wife said that they were locked in their bedroom, and whoever broke into the house broke down the bedroom door before shooting taylor.

this was not simple robbery gone bad.

 

[scooter1369]

Watching Around the Horn last night, even Kevin Blackistone mentioned that this was likely a case of Taylor's past catching up to him and nothing to do with a robbery attempt.