SBF's Local Take on The Passing of #21

[Sammy Baugh Fan]

I cried like many of you but I wanted to say and tell you what I have ween in Redskins Nation here near Washington DC.

My first waking moment this morning I know I was praying for Sean Taylor even before my eyes opens. I got up at 6:30am edt and my wife was up and had coffee made. I got in wheelchair and rolled into the kitchen. There she had set out a Redskins coffee cup for me so I smiled for her love of me and the Skins.

She was out of the room and so I poured some coffee and caught out of the corner of my eye "Sean Taylor is Dead" on the TV. I turned, stunned for a second and watched. It sunk in and I just cried.

I wheeled down the hall and opened the bathroom door where my wife was drying her hair and she looked at me with my tears and asked "What's wrong?" I said "He's dead.". She said I know and I just balled and she bent down and hugged me. I was crushed and still am.

When I went early to get to the Redskins Store the place had 50-75 people standing out front as the gate opened. They grabbed EVER ST thing in site.

I spent some time looking at Skins stuff and then just walked around looking at faces. We all looked like we were just punched in the belly. We all had a tear ready to drop if just 1 of us said a single word. I had to leave. I walked outside in the Mall and just stood there and looked back in at the fan.

There are many, many people walking around in any Redskins stuff they have. Cowboy fans have come over to me at the local watering hole and gave me a pat on the back. They feel my/our pain.

I love the Redskins and I love being a Redskins fan. I hurt over Sean Taylor cus I loved Sean Taylor. My pain equals my love and I'll take that cus it is what it is.

Locally in DC we are crushed.
I WILL be at this week's game and our Redskins BETTER smack the F' out of the Bills and tattoo the #21 on all their foreheads!

This will be one of those "Do you remember where you were when you heard Sean Taylor Died?" Threads.

I'll remember that like 911.
Both days I cried in my coffee.

Hail Skins and Hail Taylor!!!!
mike
~still praying to Jesus for his family