To be honest I didn't know this rule in depth, I just figured you cant call for time out twice in a row. Well either way I painfully had to watch the Skins squander the game as i stood feet from a shocked Sean Springs.
But I wasn't even there to cover the football aspect of the game as much as the ceremony and atmosphere surrounding Sean Taylor. The loss kind of made it all worse.
I was about a minute away from running onto the field to see the joyous faces of my favorite team as they gained a bit of happiness in what will go down as the worst week in franchise history. But it wasn't meant to be.
In the locker room it was hard to tell if the level of dejection in the players body language was more from the loss or the loss of Taylor. I'd have to assume both.
Much of the talk surrounded Sean and how they were just glad that they could go out there and honor him. And honor them they did. Maybe not on the scoreboard so much but with their unending effort and relentless on defense; the same defense that started the game with 10 players, "allowing Sean to play one more down," according to London Fletcher and others.
I'd have to say the thing I'll remember most from the experience wasn't the talking to players in the locker room, or interviewing Bills G.M. and four-time Super Bowl coach Marv Levy, or getting my hands on one of the "21" towels, but just the simple four minute video that paid Sean Taylor tribute.
As a tear dropped down my cheek, it hit me harder than it had all week. Sean Taylor will never be in our presence again, but as fans, players and coaches we know we'll never forget him.
R.I.P Sean Taylor
1 comment:
Tim,
The play they did at the begining of that game brought a tear to my eye. That was the classiest thing Ive seen in a game. To bad coach Gibbs knew absolutly nothing about it.
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