Lawrence Taylor Is Now Almost 68, How He Lives Is Sad

The hall of fame bust still stands in Canton, Ohio. Two Super Bowl rings. Ten Pro Bowls. The only defensive player in NFL history to win the league MVP award. Lawrence Taylor was the most feared man in American football for 13 seasons. Offensive coordinators invented entirely new blocking schemes just to slow him down. Bill Parcells said he had as big an impact as any player he had ever seen. Joe Theismann, the man whose leg Taylor snapped on national television on Monday Night Football in 1985, called him the standard by which everything is measured. And right now, just a few days ago, at 67 years old, Lawrence Taylor was rushed to a New Jersey emergency room following a medical emergency. The legend. The Hall of Famer. The man who single-handedly changed the game. Here is the full story of how he got here.