Maybe I need to apologize to Sean Taylor?

[sportscurmudgeon]

I've called him a meathead more than a couple of times here. I'm still not impressed with his maturity or his ability to think before he acts, but compared to running back, Larry Ned, Taylor is a model citizen.

Here's an excerpt from my column today dealing with Larry Ned:


Did I hear someone say you never heard of Larry Ned? Maybe this is the reason. Ned is a running back out of San Diego State two years ago who was drafted by the Vikings. He played mostly special teams for two seasons getting zero carries and catching one pass in 19 games. This off-season he was released by the Vikings and claimed off waivers by the Arizona Cardinals. This would seem to be a good place for someone like Ned to land since Emmitt Smith retired and there is room for someone to go in there and impress the coaching staff and get a shot as a back-up RB for an NFL team. It was March 3 when Ned was claimed by the Cards.

On March 4 – the very next day – Ned was traversing the Phoenix airport and as he cleared security, he noticed a laptop computer sitting unattended. It belonged to another passenger who was going through the security inspection process but Ned decided to “appropriate it”. Once he made off with the goods, Ned must have gotten a flash of insight that there aren’t a lot of places to hide in an airport waiting area and so he tried to hide in the stall of a men’s room where he was apprehended and arrested with “the appropriated goods”. The Cards say he never even made it to their offices to sign his contract; and of course, they released him the day of his arrest. No need to administer the MENSA screening test here…