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Sean Taylor .... statue?

Route 9 : 11/28/2022 12:48 am
Just found out about this .... heartwarming story and tribute to Sean Taylor and had to share this. Didn't seee this posted and will not delete if German.

What a classy organization that the Redskins are. I mean Commanders.
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It's no David  
adamg : 11/28/2022 1:31 am : link
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I too thought it was a nice story at first  
Giantsfan79 : 11/28/2022 5:39 am : link
But is that a statue or a clothing display mannequin with a "Commanders" uniform on?
It’s got a Nike jersey  
ajr2456 : 11/28/2022 6:19 am : link
Reebok pants and adidas soccer cleats
RE: It's no David  
JCin332 : 11/28/2022 6:55 am : link
In comment 15924766 adamg said:
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Lmao...
The  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 11/28/2022 7:06 am : link
story is tragic, but DC fans have gotten more than a bit weird with Taylor. It's like Len Bias on steroids at this point.
Agree...  
Brown_Hornet : 11/28/2022 7:21 am : link
...the Sean Taylor phenomenon is over the top.
How’s it weird to commemorate  
ajr2456 : 11/28/2022 7:23 am : link
The anniversary of a fan favorite who tragically had their life cut short? Guy was a really good player.
RE: How’s it weird to commemorate  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 11/28/2022 7:36 am : link
In comment 15924792 ajr2456 said:
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The anniversary of a fan favorite who tragically had their life cut short? Guy was a really good player.


There are plenty of tragic football deaths... just look at the Giants alone.

But these players' jerseys are still not the #1 selling jersey among the fan bases.
RE: How’s it weird to commemorate  
JB_in_DC : 11/28/2022 7:36 am : link
In comment 15924792 ajr2456 said:
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The anniversary of a fan favorite who tragically had their life cut short? Guy was a really good player.


Did you click the video? Honoring isn’t weird - the aesthetics of this tribute are strange.

Just seems like Danny Boy didn’t want to shell out for bronze.
RE: How’s it weird to commemorate  
TrueBlue56 : 11/28/2022 7:39 am : link
In comment 15924792 ajr2456 said:
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The anniversary of a fan favorite who tragically had their life cut short? Guy was a really good player.


Good player, yes. He is getting treated like an all time great and he wasn't. He played 3.5 seasons. If they want to honor Darrell green, I get it. Joe Gibbs? Absolutely. You can go down a very long list of all time greats that played for Washington that deserve more recognition and honor than Sean Taylor.

This is not meant as a knock against him, tragically his life and career was cut short. What could have been.
RE: RE: How’s it weird to commemorate  
Giantsfan79 : 11/28/2022 7:45 am : link
In comment 15924798 Eric from BBI said:
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In comment 15924792 ajr2456 said:


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The anniversary of a fan favorite who tragically had their life cut short? Guy was a really good player.



There are plenty of tragic football deaths... just look at the Giants alone.

But these players' jerseys are still not the #1 selling jersey among the fan bases.


If they Giants continued their losing ways of the last decade for another 30 years like Washington, who knows whose jersey fans would flock to?
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ChrisRick : 11/28/2022 7:47 am : link
It was certainly an awful tragedy, which significantly helped elevate his status to a ‘certain’ hof’er. He was an excellent safety, but is talked about like he was equivalent to a prime Ronnie Lott.
What other player the last 20 years  
ajr2456 : 11/28/2022 7:57 am : link
Do the fans have to attach to that was as good as Taylor was in his short career? Of course it’s going to be a top selling jersey, he’s the best player anyone in their late teens, 20s and maybe even early 30s has seen play. Those are the people who buy most of the jerseys I’d imagine.
RE: What other player the last 20 years  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 11/28/2022 8:01 am : link
In comment 15924811 ajr2456 said:
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Do the fans have to attach to that was as good as Taylor was in his short career? Of course it’s going to be a top selling jersey, he’s the best player anyone in their late teens, 20s and maybe even early 30s has seen play. Those are the people who buy most of the jerseys I’d imagine.


He played for four years in Washington on teams that never won a playoff game.
Have you seen how Giants fans  
ajr2456 : 11/28/2022 8:06 am : link
Fawn over players that haven’t even made a playoff game yet?
It's like they had this unveiling planned out  
Stu11 : 11/28/2022 8:10 am : link
And then at the last second they realized they forgot to order a statue so they sent some intern out to a Dick's Sporting Goods and had him pay for one of their mannequins.
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SFGFNCGiantsFan : 11/28/2022 8:16 am : link
If I recall, he was breaking out in '07 before he got injured.
RE: Have you seen how Giants fans  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 11/28/2022 8:29 am : link
In comment 15924814 ajr2456 said:
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Fawn over players that haven’t even made a playoff game yet?


I've never seen Giants fans fawn over any player like Sean Taylor, and that includes Lawrence Taylor.
RE: The  
BillT : 11/28/2022 8:33 am : link
In comment 15924789 Eric from BBI said:
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story is tragic, but DC fans have gotten more than a bit weird with Taylor. It's like Len Bias on steroids at this point.

And Boston fans don’t mention Bias almost ever. They’ve had many others to take his place.
I think it stems  
pjcas18 : 11/28/2022 8:34 am : link
from "what might have been?" and when a life or career is robbed from a player at a young age, as fans, family, the team, etc. you can write that answer any way you want.

So maybe fans prop him up to a level higher than he would have achieved, but that's ok with me even if it's strange to us.

It's kind of like how Red Sox fans treat Tony Conigliaro.

The Giants have had some very good players  
ajr2456 : 11/28/2022 8:35 am : link
That won Super Bowls. The best players Washington has had since Taylor are like Alfred Morris and Terry Mclaurin
I think part of the thing fans have with Taylor  
j_rud : 11/28/2022 9:07 am : link
is that , due to his murder, he's a permanent Washington star. They don't have many of those outside of Theismann. The modern organization has an amazing ability to alienate, mistreat, misdiagnose, and harass its employees and players. Not gonna happen with Taylor though. Permanent fixture for an organization unable to cultivate loyalty.
I have seen far worse human beings  
KDavies : 11/28/2022 11:30 am : link
who accomplished far less get statues lately
The Commanders will remain a Dollar Tree NFL Franchise  
Heisenberg : 11/28/2022 12:01 pm : link
until they are sold.
Similar to Korey Stringer's  
widmerseyebrow : 11/28/2022 12:17 pm : link


I do agree that it's weird that his jersey is the #1 selling jersey still. I think it speaks more to the team's lack of success.

Derrick Thomas had a Hall of Fame career. I wonder how his jersey sells relative to today's Chiefs players.
Damn. Was not expecting THAT.  
Beezer : 11/28/2022 1:37 pm : link
And I read the entire thread up to this point before clicking the video link.

Very weird.
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Route 9 : 11/28/2022 1:53 pm : link
Mahomes, Kelce and then Kadarius Toney would be the order of jersey sales by player in KC.
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Route 9 : 11/28/2022 1:56 pm : link
Wait? Holy shit. Sean Taylor's death was already 15 years ago? Feels like that just happened 3 days ago.
RE: Similar to Korey Stringer's  
Gatorade Dunk : 11/28/2022 2:04 pm : link
In comment 15925081 widmerseyebrow said:
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I do agree that it's weird that his jersey is the #1 selling jersey still. I think it speaks more to the team's lack of success.

Derrick Thomas had a Hall of Fame career. I wonder how his jersey sells relative to today's Chiefs players.

I don't think you can compare to any team that has a bona fide superstar QB, or even a young QB on the come. I'm sure Mahomes is the top selling jersey for KC, and I'd be willing to bet that RG3 jerseys outsold Taylor's early in RG3's career. I also wouldn't be surprised if Cousins' Washington jerseys outsold Taylor's while he was their QB1.

Similarly, Eli was far and away the most popular jersey during his time with the Giants, but if the Giants had been cycling the QB wasteland for much of that time instead, I could easily imagine LT or even Strahan being the top selling Giants jersey.
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Route 9 : 11/28/2022 2:04 pm : link
In comment 15924806 ChrisRick said:
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It was certainly an awful tragedy, which significantly helped elevate his status to a ‘certain’ hof’er. He was an excellent safety, but is talked about like he was equivalent to a prime Ronnie Lott.


I'm still reading posts to this day thay he was far better than Ed Reed, Dawkins and Troy Polamalu.
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NoPeanutz : 11/28/2022 3:31 pm : link
In comment 15925330 Route 9 said:
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It was certainly an awful tragedy, which significantly helped elevate his status to a ‘certain’ hof’er. He was an excellent safety, but is talked about like he was equivalent to a prime Ronnie Lott.



I'm still reading posts to this day thay he was far better than Ed Reed, Dawkins and Troy Polamalu.


Iirc, he played in the division at the same time as Dawkins and Roy Williams. Those guys were pretty well-established veteran talents. I don't remember Taylor being considered better than them while he played. Possibly more violent, but not better.
NoPeantuz.  
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 11/28/2022 6:38 pm : link
Roy Williams was one of the most overrated players this century. What did Bob Papa say about him after he missed a tackle on Amani in the '07 divisional game...'Williams missed the tackle, but he's going to the Pro Bowl.'? Something to that effect.
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