Sean Taylor: 1 year later.

[Lmcfalcon12]

This article is 1 year after the shooting of Redskins player, Sean Taylor. I didn't read the whole article, but I thought the incident could be a sobering lesson for other NFL players.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3711336

I'll incorporate a reply here too; the bottomline, is this is how things work with the NFL. Many players who are drafted have ridiculous talent and live in crappy neighborhoods...not by choice of course. Then they get drafted into the NFL and get to escape their violent, and impoverished neighborhoods. Then when they come back, they flaunt their Hennessey and a block of 100 dollar bills to show everyone they made it. WRONG! That's the problem. The poverty and violence is never going to go away in the old neighborhoods. The best course of action is to leave your crap neighborhood and never go back...that's how these guys end up dead. The guy who got shot on the Jaguars, also was in the wrong place at the wrong time again. We see it alot and until these guys connect 2 and 2, it will keep happening.

Its sobering and I wish the family the best. Thoughts below.

[The Corporal]

I'll incorporate a reply here too; the bottomline, is this is how things work with the NFL. Many players who are drafted have ridiculous talent and live in crappy neighborhoods...not by choice of course. Then they get drafted into the NFL and get to escape their violent, and impoverished neighborhoods. Then when they come back, they flaunt their Hennessey and a block of 100 dollar bills to show everyone they made it. WRONG! That's the problem. The poverty and violence is never going to go away in the old neighborhoods. The best course of action is to leave your crap neighborhood and never go back...that's how these guys end up dead. The guy who got shot on the Jaguars, also was in the wrong place at the wrong time again. We see it alot and until these guys connect 2 and 2, it will keep happening.

Its sobering and I wish the family the best. Thoughts below.

Good article, but I'm not sure your reply is fair treatment of all of the players. For the players that make those bad decisions your analysis is correct. They should stop beating on strippers that don't know what to do when you make it rain, stop drinking and picking fights with other drunk bar patrons, and start taking some responsibility for themselves and their actions. But Sean Taylor and Dunta Robinson weren't out in "the old neighborhood" flashing stacks of Benjamins and buffing their diamond-encrusted rims with a Kristal-soaked velour towel...someone or a group of people said to themselves, "that guy makes millions of dollars a year, I bet we can find ourselves something real nice in that house." It's incumbent on the players to shake off the aura of invincibility and get whatever guns, security guards, and alarm systems are necessary to protect themselves and their families. At least for every Pacman Jones in the league there is one (or more) Clinton Portis making sure his family is as safe as they can be.

[Lmcfalcon12]

Good article, but I'm not sure your reply is fair treatment of all of the players. For the players that make those bad decisions your analysis is correct. They should stop beating on strippers that don't know what to do when you make it rain, stop drinking and picking fights with other drunk bar patrons, and start taking some responsibility for themselves and their actions. But Sean Taylor and Dunta Robinson weren't out in "the old neighborhood" flashing stacks of Benjamins and buffing their diamond-encrusted rims with a Kristal-soaked velour towel...someone or a group of people said to themselves, "that guy makes millions of dollars a year, I bet we can find ourselves something real nice in that house." It's incumbent on the players to shake off the aura of invincibility and get whatever guns, security guards, and alarm systems are necessary to protect themselves and their families. At least for every Pacman Jones in the league there is one (or more) Clinton Portis making sure his family is as safe as they can be.

I was mistaken then. I thought that's where Sean Taylor went; back to the old neighborhood. But I definitely knew that's where Pac Man Jones went. He can't stop beating up strippers. He doesn't seem to get that if he draws too much attention to himself, he get a cap in his ass.

[The Corporal]

I was mistaken then. I thought that's where Sean Taylor went; back to the old neighborhood. But I definitely knew that's where Pac Man Jones went. He can't stop beating up strippers. He doesn't seem to get that if he draws too much attention to himself, he get a cap in his ass.
Maybe a cap in the ass is just what he needs to turn his life around. :D

[Lmcfalcon12]

Maybe a cap in the ass is just what he needs to turn his life around. :D

Seriously. There's no denying that. He has some pretty big douchebag behaviors.

[Dark Force]

Seriously. There's no denying that. He has some pretty big douchebag behaviors.

My question is, how can he get away with that, and yet Vick is sent to prison for dog fights? I understand what Vick did was wrong, I just think it is ironic that the animals got more media coverage, and Vick got a harder sentencing than PacMan.

[The Corporal]

My question is, how can he get away with that, and yet Vick is sent to prison for dog fights? I understand what Vick did was wrong, I just think it is ironic that the animals got more media coverage, and Vick got a harder sentencing than PacMan.

Maybe it's because the public sympathizes more with dogs than they do strippers? What Jones did was wrong and worthy of maybe a few months in jail if the judge was tough on sentencing, but hanging and electrocuting dogs for fun and profit is worse than pimp-slapping a stripper...