Sean Taylor - RIP UPDATED

But odds are, with everything that's out there, this wasn't a random break-in. Nothing was taken, the alarm wasn't set off, etc. This was, by all counts, deliberate.

 

Sean Taylor didn't grow up in the hood, go to HS in the hood or die in the hood so the "get out of the hood" to save your ass argument is incorrect.

 

It's not about getting out of the hood. It's about associating with unsavory types. It's about keepin' it real and all that gangsta BS that leads to this type of violence, which isn't confined to the projects. It happens in suburbia, too. You're often only as good as the company you keep.

 

What BB said. It said he stayed close to unsavory elements from his past. Not that he was living in the ghetto. Hell, he had a $900,000 house (which admittedly isn't a lot in Miami). This was possibly someone from his past back to exact revenge.

 

Why would anyone be surprised that someone who has a history of gun violence suffers a serious (and eventually fatal) gunshot wound? I certainly wasn't.

Just like I wasn't surprised when Chris Farley died of a drug overdose or that a professional wrestler (pick one) dies of a steroid-induced heart attack at 45. People with histories of reckless behavior tend to meet unfortunate ends.

Shocking is when a world-class runner like Ryan Shay dies in the middle of the Olympic marathon trials or when Damien Nash drops dead after a charity basketball game.

EDIT to fix Olympic trials, not NY marathon.

 

Unsavory elements? His transgressions are hardly gangster.

1. Spit on Michael Pittman
2. Skip the rookie symposium
3. Blew off off-season workouts
4. DUI arrest/no conviction

The big one, investigating who stole his ATV's, waived a gun and the perps shut up his SUV. Every hillbilly in WV would go looking for their ATV's with a gun.

Unless there is a lot of information that hasn't been reported, Taylor was far from being a gangster.

I think the perception of him being a thug permeates because he was introverted off the field and menancing on it.

Sean Taylor was hardly Pac Man Jones

 

I don't think this has anything to do with anything he did within the NFL. I think to include things like the spitting incident or the rookie symposium is wrong.

 

Dude, his car was shot at 100 times.

You ever been to Richmond Heights in Florida City?

It's a nasty area he grew up in.

 

One thing that I have not seen mentioned on this thread yet...

The machete is just such a violent tool for self defense, but a person brought up to me yesterday that Taylor might not have been able to legally own a handgun because of his past history with the law. So to defend himself and his family, he had the machete.

My God, that last sentence I typed is just so hard to grasp for me. Defending your family with a machete. Christ.

I would have just left town...

EDIT- with my family.

 

You forgot arrested on charges of armed assault, a felony which he pleaded out of.

He was hardly Mother Theresa, either.

 

hardly gangster? excuse me? let's recap:

You forgot blasting that punter/kicker in the pro bowl. That was real classy as well.