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1959-

American football player

Lawrence Taylor lived on the edge.

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Quite possibly one of the best linebackers to play the game, Taylor starred for the New York Giants and set a new standard for how linebackers played the game. He brought about a new statistic (the sack), and was a dominant player whose personal life was plagued with substance abuse problems. His induction into the Hall of Fame, in 1999, was marked by controversy due to his problems with drugs.

Growing Up

Lawrence Taylor was born on February 4, 1959, in Williamsburg, Virginia.

He grew up in a four-room

frame house on the outskirts of the restored colonial village.

Lawrence Taylor - Wikipedia

Hailing from a middle-class environment, Taylor was the middle brother of three, and his parents have remembered his early years as active ones. Taylor was physical even as a small child. "He liked to hit," his father Clarence told New York Times Magazine. His mother made Taylor spend hours working at chores around the Taylor Lawrence GEN