Best article I've read yet on Sean Taylor, the man

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Originally Posted by dgack

When it comes right down to it, many of us on this board could have been a guy like Sean Taylor, in his position. Middle class, but parents worked hard to get him into a private school so he'd have a better future, lived in a not-so-great neighborhood, did the requisite college partying and young adult bad decision-making but ultimately realized there are more important things in life, and got his life in order.

I fully agree (and with the rest of your post too). In fact, this is one of the things that is most upsetting to me is that he was among my favorite skins BECAUSE he had the troubles and struggles he did. He wasn't some "untouchable" athlete beyond comprehension. He was human. Given the amount of stupid things I've done in my life, and to get through them, made it easy to feel for Sean. Guys like Michael Jordan are amazing, no doubt. But I'd rather have spent a day with Sean, because he was real, we could recognize ourselves in him, as a man, if not as a staggeringly gifted athlete.

(I still cannot believe it.)