Sean Taylor shot; passed away RIP

[J.T.]

yep....c/o 88

Making me feel young... Reagan c/o '04.

[redskinfan]

R I P #21 you were the man...

[Steve Irwin]

Rip Bro!

[Fillmoe]

its funny that even though dude turned his life around, people will still bring up from his past, to write bull articles that garner attention

[pussyface.]

its funny that even though dude turned his life around, people will still bring up from his past, to write bull articles that garner attention

We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.
-Magnolia

[johnsmith]

We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.
-Magnolia

For instance, that 24-pack of donuts T park ate earlier today is going to be with him for a long time.

[Spawn]

Here we go bringing out all of his past transgressions. This to me was obviously a robbery gone bad because if it was an intended hit, why would they shoot him in the leg?

[Spawn]

Alright, sorry for using a white player. I bet Braylon Edwards, Jason Taylor, Shawn Springs, Dwight Howard, Lebron James, Derek Jeter, or Shaq would get arrested for pulling a gun on someone and assault. Sorry Tom Brady was the first to come to mind. I was just saying what everyone else probably thought. I bet nobody would be shocked is Starbury foundhimself in a situation like this... that's what I'm saying. I'm not happy it happened, I mean he has a little girl, but I am in no way suprised it happened. Chill out

Hardly anyone has done more for his community than Stephon Marbury, you probably don't know this because the media likes to focus on the negative and people who allow the media to think for them soak it all in. Also what troubles has he gotten himself into in his life that would suggest that people wouldn't be suprised that he meet with foul play?

[SAtown]

Hardly anyone has done more for his community than Stephon Marbury, you probably don't know this because the media likes to focus on the negative and people who allow the media to think for them soak it all in.

Dude, you're talking to a bunch of Spurs fans.

[Extra Stout]

Hardly anyone has done more for his community than Stephon Marbury, you probably don't know this because the media likes to focus on the negative and people who allow the media to think for them soak it all in. Also what troubles has he gotten himself into in his life that would suggest that people wouldn't be suprised that he meet with foul play?

Stephon is complicated. On the court, he's a diva, but off the court, he's probably done more than anybody to break the cultural neurosis in the inner city that compels people in poverty to pay $150 for $20 basketball shoes.

[Findog]

We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.
-Magnolia

The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this matters. Like at the end of the book, ya' know, boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right, you can say your somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story. But, what came first is who you really are and what happened before is what really happened. It don't matter that some fool say he different 'cause the things that make you different is what you really do, what you really go through. Like, ya' know, all those books in his library. He frontin' with all them books, but if you pull one down off the shelf, none of the pages have ever been opened. He got all them books, and he hasn't read nearly one of them. Gatsby, he was who he was, and he did what he did. And 'cause he wasn't willing to get real with the story, that caught up to him.

- DeAngelo.

[JamStone]

Here we go bringing out all of his past transgressions. This to me was obviously a robbery gone bad because if it was an intended hit, why would they shoot him in the leg?

Maybe not a hit to kill, but quite possibly be some sort of revenge act. And, as for shooting him in the leg, might not have wanted to kill him but may have wanted to end his football career.

All conjecture and speculation, but it very possibly may not have been just a robbery gone bad.

[BeerIsGood!]

Let's see... someone broke into his house one week ago and left a knife laying on the pillow of his bed. I think I'd start looking into the premeditated motives of those with personal ties to Taylor as well, as most random burglars won't go to the trouble to break into a place twice and put a knife on the pillow of someone they never met before coming back and killing them.

[SAtown]

Let's see... someone broke into his house one week ago and left a knife laying on the pillow of his bed. I think I'd start looking into the premeditated motives of those with personal ties to Taylor as well, as most random burglars won't go to the trouble to break into a place twice and put a knife on the pillow of someone they never met before coming back and killing them.

Maybe he/she/they figured he was with the team; after all, it was gameday.

[BeerIsGood!]

Maybe he/she/they figured he was with the team; after all, it was gameday.

So what's with the knife? Any why the repeat burglary in such a short time? I guess they couldn't carry out that plasma tv in one night, needed another to clean it up. It's possible it was a burglary, but with the evidence seems improbable. Plus, the other side of it being gameday means that someone that knew him could have easily known he wasn't with the team.

[tlongII]

The "robber" busted through the bedroom door and shot Taylor. I don't believe it was a random act. It sounds to me like somebody was seriously pissed off at him.

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

Nothing was stolen in either break-in.

Shot in the groin area is a nice way of saying they tried to blow his off.

Sounds like a revenge act to me. I don't see how it doesn't look that way with what happened on the initial break-in.

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

"This was not the first incident," Rolle said. "They've been targeting him for three years now."

Rolle said many former "friends" had it in for Taylor, who was trying to build a more stable life.

"He really didn't say too much," Rolle said, "but I know he lived his life pretty much scared every day of his life when he was down in Miami because those people were targeting him. At least, he's got peace now."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3132378

[Flo-Rida]

man i still cant believe he's gone im like in tears its funny because how poeple used to say bad things about him i had the privelage to meet sean one time and he was truly a classy person it just saddends me to know that his little 18 motnh daughter wont even know her father i will truly miss all the good higlights he coulda had

sean u are gone but u aint forgotten



So once again R.I.P Sean Taylor

[Flo-Rida]

it's not Wilbon's column but he is quoted towards the end


Taylor's Death Is Tragic but Not Surprising

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.
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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 consider 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 at ude. 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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2007112702001

Prick i bet u he didnt even know the guy man

[ShoogarBear]

The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this matters. Like at the end of the book, ya' know, boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right, you can say your somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story. But, what came first is who you really are and what happened before is what really happened. It don't matter that some fool say he different 'cause the things that make you different is what you really do, what you really go through. Like, ya' know, all those books in his library. He frontin' with all them books, but if you pull one down off the shelf, none of the pages have ever been opened. He got all them books, and he hasn't read nearly one of them. Gatsby, he was who he was, and he did what he did. And 'cause he wasn't willing to get real with the story, that caught up to him.

- DeAngelo.

The Wire, sweet.

[Slydragon]

Maybe not a hit to kill, but quite possibly be some sort of revenge act. And, as for shooting him in the leg, might not have wanted to kill him but may have wanted to end his football career.

All conjecture and speculation, but it very possibly may not have been just a robbery gone bad.

thats what I was thinking.

[TampaDude]

Dude, I don't mean to sound like a here, really I don't. But, you said "DC will never be the same again".

On 9/11, the country lost 3,000 some odd folks, if anything that would be the day that DC would never be the same again, but after about three weeks, it was back to normal.

This is a ty deal for sports fans, redskins fans, and friends and family of Sean Taylor, but let's not act like the world is coming to an end.

You obviously have never lived in the DC area. The passion that Redskins fans have for their team is almost without equal in the NFL. I didn't mean the world was coming to an end, and you know it. The many fans in and around DC, and all over the world, know the Skins, and DC, will never quite be the same without Sean Taylor...he was arguably the best player on the team, and now he's gone forever. There will be other talented safeties on the Redskins in the years to come, but there will NEVER, EVER, be anyone quite like Sean Taylor.

Oh, BTW...I used to work at the Pentagon...I know all about 9/11, trust me...don't even go there...

[BeerIsGood!]

Oh, BTW...I used to work at the Pentagon...I know all about 9/11, trust me...don't even go there...

I've worked there too, and I'm not touchy at all about it. We pissed off some Arabs by giving their land away to Israel after WWII and 60 years later they finally did something about it. It's the way the world works, when you're at the top some people are going to be siding with you and some are going to be gunning to topple you.

[BeerIsGood!]

I agree that this Taylor incident is a very sad and unfortunate issue, but many people die from homicide every day just in this country alone. Right now as you read this someone is being murdered in the US. Why not all the outrage over those people?