I am sick for Sean Taylor's family.
Because once again the Washington Commanders franchise — to be more specific, we mean team owner Dan Snyder —In advance of Sunday's home game against Atlanta, which was the 15th anniversary of the day Taylor was killed in his Miami home by intruders who didn't expect the rehabbing young star and his family to be home,Many expected a statue, you know, a life-sized, painstakingly crafted likeness of Taylor, perhaps pulling in an interception, or more likely, leveling one of his trademark...
Instead, as hundreds of fans, several former teammates and Taylor's family whooped and waited in anticipation as a burgundy cloth was pulled away to reveal the memorial, they were met with something else. Something that looked like the Commanders just went to the store room of the pro shop and slapped some lost-and-found items on it and called it a memorial.
The No. 21 jersey is Nike-branded, which isn't historically accurate as Taylor would have worn a Reebok jersey; Nike didn't start manufacturing NFL jerseys until the 2012 season, almost five full years after Taylor's death. The pants are Reebok, which is accurate, but why is the uniform mismatched? The shoes are black Adidas soccer cleats, and while Taylor did wear soccer cleats sometimes, photos from his career show they were more often the classic Nike"Total 90" style; in other photos, he is shown in Nikes with burgundy on the toe.
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