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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
Very nice.
Andy Garcia's niece, who knew?
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Exactly, and given that context, it sure does put a different spin on the whole "thug athlete living with some girl he knocked up" undertone a lot of news reports have implied, doesn't it?
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.
So to hear people suggest he had it coming, well, to me that means that any of us who have made mistakes in our youth have it coming. Stories like this ought to make it clear that Taylor was not a bad person, not a mean person, not an evil person. He wasn't just some guy who was important because he could hurt people on a football field.
He was a thoughtful young man trying to be a better person, better at his job, better at being a father, better at being a leader and role model. And that's a whole hell of a lot more than a lot of people can say. A lot of people talk about changing themselves and doing better, but few actually do. Sean Taylor was one of those remarkable few.