Found November 05, 2008 on nojoshin.blogspot.com:
With the Redskins going to posthumously induct Sean Taylor into their "Ring of Fame" this month, it will cause the sports world to reflect back a year to the tragic death of a very talented young football star with a very bright and prosperous football career ahead of him. His untimely death was horrible. There's no debating that. And the Redskins should honor him and continue to honor him just one year later. And I know this will probably be an unpopular opinion - and no, it's not because I'm a Cowboys fan - but I think inducting him into the Redskins Ring of Fame bastardized the honor of being in that select group of Redskins. For a football team with so much history, putting Taylor in not a way to honor the free safety, but instead it trivializes the accomplishments of its members. This is a guy who played for four years in Washington, and while he did go to two Pro Bowls, if his career had ended due to injury or had he died in a way where he wasn't such a sympathetic victim, this ceremony wouldn't be happening. Don't compare him to Pat Tillman either. Please. Just don't. Sean Taylor died too young. There's no debating that. But to put him in the Redskins Ring of Fame is insulting to the men in that group. Dan Snyder should be ashamed of this decision. I always assumed the Redskins were a better organization than that. I thought they would hold players to higher standards for their Ring of Fame. Guess I was wrong.
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