12ths 5 Funny Things About Sean Taylor

Boy what a tough week this has been. I caught myself this morning welling up over Sean Taylor - yet again. But I was thinking to myself, most of the time we think of Sean Taylor it's usually the hard hits or something of a serious nature. But you know what, Sean Taylor could be one funny mo'fo at times. Yes, 12th presents 5 funny things about Sean Taylor. As we continue to mourn the loss of a tremendous athlete and human being, I hope you all don't find this inappropriate and can extract a little humor from my post. Enjoy.

1) I just loved it when I saw Taylor sporting that big ass fro at the beginning of the season. I was like, geeezzz, how do you get your helmet over that thing!? I wonder if people were starting to wonder if Ben Wallace was now playing for the Redskins. Taylor definitely had his own style. On the field and off.

2) While were talking about style. How bout those damn socks Sean Taylor wore a couple of years ago!? What the f? Seriously, did he and Portis go to the Salvation Army throw back store and pick those up? Forget about retiring Taylor's jersey, someone should dig up those damn candy caned socks and retire those instead. I think they're more indicative of Sean Taylor than anything else. Sean thanks for the great throwback socks.

3) Sean Taylor would make you want to pull your hair out after catching an interception or recovering a fumble. He was usually thinking about two things and two things only - taking it to the house or a lateral to an open teammate. Have you ever seen a man try so damn hard to pitch and lateral the ball every time he got his hands on it? Always thinking about the end-zone. Always thinking about winning. Sean, you were the consumate team player and so unselfish.

4) By all accounts Taylor was quiet off the field, but boy could he talk a lot of smack on it. I wonder exactly what he would be saying to the opponent out there sometimes. He used to crack me up. After every play, Taylor would bounce around and get in your face and say something. I used to get scared for those guys sometimes. To this day, I'm convinced Taylor is probably the only man Terrell Owens didn't look forward to playing against. You knew you were going to earn your paycheck the day you lined up across from #21. I have never seen a guy respect the game so much and intimidate the opponent at the same time. Thanks for bringing back the nasty to D.C., Sean. I hope the Redskins will live up to it.

5) Do any of you remember Taylor's rookie season? I'll never forget his first rookie practice - he was a lot bigger then too - but Taylor was sporting this big ass pair of Redskins practice shorts. I swear, they were like two sizes too big for him! The entire practice session he was pulling them up every five minutes. It was so funny, the next day the Post ran an article about Gibbs commenting on Taylor, and he said something like, yeah our rookie Sean Taylor had a tough time keeping up - literally. We need to find a pair of shorts that fit him.

It seemed everything Sean Taylor did was bigger than life. From his Afro to the big hits, the game changing plays....all the way down to his practice shorts. Sean, keep living big and keep letting the good times roll. We'll miss you.

Nothing disrespectful about this at all. While certain writers wonder why we as fans cared about a "thug", these things are what endeared us to him. If you measure a man solely by how much trouble he faces, you're bound to be disappointed. It's how he handles himself in those troubles that his measure can be found.

Along with the socks, I always like the crazy tape on the fingers. They actually included that in Madden this year and he's the only player I can think of that does that.

Good thread. Last couple of days I was thinking back about how we used to substitute Chuck Norris jokes with Sean Taylor.

"Sean Taylor Knows the Last Digit of Pi"

haha yeah when the man caught an int he would do everything in his power to advance that ball. he catches it on our 3 hed still try and lateral it back to anyone, philip daniels behind him, here ya go big boy!

so much heart, so much

Dude the laterals at the time were mind boggling but now they just make me laugh. The running around like a chicken with his head cutoff and just as he'd get hit he'd just toss in the genral direction of some fat Lineman or something. Funny.

Good thread. Last couple of days I was thinking back about how we used to substitute Chuck Norris jokes with Sean Taylor.

"Sean Taylor Knows the Last Digit of Pi"

I actually laughed out loud at that...people are staring...i'm a bad employee

Hey, what's that one Chuck Norris joke and we said Sean Taylor looked at picture of someone and it cried or something? I'm terrible at remembering jokes...anyone know which one I'm trying to talk about.

Nice thread, 12th. Loved the comment about his propensity to lateral after an INT.

Drove me nuts, but also showed that he was always thinking about scoring (himself, or giving a teammate the opp. to do so). You can't teach that mindset.

Good thread. Last couple of days I was thinking back about how we used to substitute Chuck Norris jokes with Sean Taylor.

"Sean Taylor Knows the Last Digit of Pi"

Sean Taylor doesn't read, he just stares down the book till it gives him all the information he needs.

Superman wears Sean Taylor pajamas.

When the boogie man goes to sleep at night he checks under the bed for Sean Taylor.

There are no disabled people, only people who have met Sean Taylor.

The chief export of Sean Taylor is pain.

Those are the only Chuck Norris jokes I can remember. Substituting Sean's name works perfectly. Miss you #21.