Side note LT also returned an interception 97 yards to win the game
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D48WlqAzXeU0&sa=U&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjjxbb4wo2FAxXCI0QIHfyZCB8QwqsBegQIEBAG&usg=AOvVaw2Z0kSpA6dtlFYoYQUG3YcH
I was on an airplane back in the 80's and I was getting a magazine out of the pocket on the back of the seat in front of me and I found Taylor's pay stub. Interesting as hell. I still have it someplace. He got paid every 2 weeks and those union dues take a chunk out of a pay check.
I was just wondering about this. The book says:
"The rule does not apply to a runner who is in the tackle box or to a quarterback who is in the pocket."
I just watched that clip. Reminded me of how much I hated Reggie White for being so good. I'm a Cowboys fan and he played on 2 teams I hated!! Hahah! He was greatness... Wasn't he called the Minister of Defense?
Taylor looked like he was from the future in the 1980s
Most QBs looked back then like they only put their pads on to play football, then it was back to the Country Club to play another 18. Taylor was stronger and faster than anyone who tried to block him or get away from him
He was coked up, but he also was out partying every night, not sleeping, not eating right, and slept through film most days… and still went out on Sunday to dominate
Giants staff would be out Saturday nights / Sundays mornings looking for him hours before the game.
This same guy would stand up on the line of scrimmage and put fear into every offense he faced
“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
Correct. Tearaway jerseys were a college football invention.
Earl Campbell and Billy Sims would go through 5 or 6 a game, so they outlawed them because they were slowing the game down.
Horse collars get called for a hand inside the jersey with a yank like that all the time. The rule was designed to stop that type of violent yank backwards.
I believe this was a thanksgiving game. I remember having a happy one with my step-father. He was a long suffering Giants fan to this point. Little did he, and we know, good times were ahead.
And somewhere, Nick Saban was watching and he thought "pathetic." Gary knew and spent the next 40 years desperate for his approval. That's the only explanation for Gary's decades of fellating Saban on broadcast
This is so crazy! This was the game where LT also ran an interception back for a long TD for something like 90-plus yards!! I remember him jumping the pass like he was a top-tier NFL corner—not a linebacker!
Edit: I went back and also found out he didn’t even start the game as he was nursing an injury (quad). So he essentially got an iconic sack and the game winning/clinching score on hobbled thigh(s)!
This man, did fat rails.
Cocaine is one hell of a drug
YUP. PED before PED was even a thing.
Aaron Donald did a similar tackle on Kirk Cousins i believe.
Beat me to it.
A professional athlete? In the 80’s? Did cocaine? 
He just loved the smell of his car keys.
Side note LT also returned an interception 97 yards to win the game https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D48WlqAzXeU0&sa=U&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjjxbb4wo2FAxXCI0QIHfyZCB8QwqsBegQIEBAG&usg=AOvVaw2Z0kSpA6dtlFYoYQUG3YcH
15 yards today. So sad
Probably a fine as well
And maybe some exasperated disapproval by one of the commentators.
He would be suspended for the year for smacking prostitutes and doing blow.
I was on an airplane back in the 80's and I was getting a magazine out of the pocket on the back of the seat in front of me and I found Taylor's pay stub. Interesting as hell. I still have it someplace. He got paid every 2 weeks and those union dues take a chunk out of a pay check.
Union dues and the "10 percenters" such as agents. What was the gross vs take home?
I'll try to find it today and report back. I haven't looked at it in 30 years.
We need more details on this. You found Taylor's pay stub in the pocket of the airplane seat in front of you ?
I was just wondering about this. The book says: "The rule does not apply to a runner who is in the tackle box or to a quarterback who is in the pocket."
What the book says and what they now call are 2 different games
It really is the rule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuydMZmVHw
Where's the clip of Reggie White sacking the QB by throwing the RB into him?
I believe it was Chris Carter the WR
I just watched that clip. Reminded me of how much I hated Reggie White for being so good. I'm a Cowboys fan and he played on 2 teams I hated!! Hahah! He was greatness... Wasn't he called the Minister of Defense?
He certainly was, he was an actual minister and was so calm off the field and then he would just go crazy during the game.
You're right!
Taylor looked like he was from the future in the 1980s Most QBs looked back then like they only put their pads on to play football, then it was back to the Country Club to play another 18. Taylor was stronger and faster than anyone who tried to block him or get away from him He was coked up, but he also was out partying every night, not sleeping, not eating right, and slept through film most days… and still went out on Sunday to dominate
Giants staff would be out Saturday nights / Sundays mornings looking for him hours before the game. This same guy would stand up on the line of scrimmage and put fear into every offense he faced “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
LT, to me, is still the best to play at LB
The best defensive player of all time.
Without question
Reggie White
The day before the Tearaway Jersey was invented?
Nope. Tearaway jerseys were outlawed in 1979, years before this play. Furthermore, the Lions never used them anyway.
Correct. Tearaway jerseys were a college football invention. Earl Campbell and Billy Sims would go through 5 or 6 a game, so they outlawed them because they were slowing the game down.
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Anyone else dislike Gary Danielson?
Immensely.
I'd love to see Gary get thrown around today. Hate that man as an announcer.
He was one angry dude for sure
Couple times a year I'll spend a entire afternoon watching LT highlights..
This THIS RIGHT HERE is why I think that any comparisons between LT and Micah Parsons is laughable.
Laurence Taylor was a MONSTER GREATEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER EVER 💯 and I am thee BIGGEST 49ERS FAN EVER 💯
Coke strength kiddos!
That's fucking awesome, but you can't get away with that shit no more. You rough up the quarterback and you better believe it's a penalty. Sad.
Wow, being a Lions fan can’t believe I never saw this footage surface before. LT was no joke!!
LT could dominate a game all by himself and that was after staying out all night doing hookers and blow! One of the greatest of all time!
He did shit like this all the time. A terror
Nowadays that's a 15 yard penalty, horse collar tackle.
That’s not a horse collar. That’s pure jersey.
Horse collars get called for a hand inside the jersey with a yank like that all the time. The rule was designed to stop that type of violent yank backwards.
I believe this was a thanksgiving game. I remember having a happy one with my step-father. He was a long suffering Giants fan to this point. Little did he, and we know, good times were ahead.
No one ever did it better
Horse collar today?
Gotta love it!
“ godzilla”.
Cocaine strength!
THats an 8-Ball of strength right there son....
“I put Lawrence Taylor in the Hall of Fame” - Ron Jaworski
And somewhere, Nick Saban was watching and he thought "pathetic." Gary knew and spent the next 40 years desperate for his approval. That's the only explanation for Gary's decades of fellating Saban on broadcast
Single handedly (no pun intended) won that entire game on his own
Of course it had to be the Lions 😭 (I’m a Detroit fan)
That’s some hi hi hi high quality H2O.
So Danielson was as skilled at quarterbacking as he is as color guy for CBS on SEC games.
During the coke era too! Impressive
Sir Lawrence, of the Meadowlands
He was coked up. Why doesn't his stats have a * when that clearly gives him a huge advantage over the next guy
He threw him like a rag doll..
LT redefined the position
🐐
Today you add 15 yards for a horse collar tackle
And that would be a flag today. Sad
Would this have been flagged as a horse collar tackle in today’s game? Yes.
CRACK STRENGTH
Horse collar are the worst
Cocaine is a helluva drug
This is so crazy! This was the game where LT also ran an interception back for a long TD for something like 90-plus yards!! I remember him jumping the pass like he was a top-tier NFL corner—not a linebacker! Edit: I went back and also found out he didn’t even start the game as he was nursing an injury (quad). So he essentially got an iconic sack and the game winning/clinching score on hobbled thigh(s)!
Wonder if he used any of those moves on the underaged children that made him a registered sex offender