Remembering Sean Taylor’s Hit on Punter Brian Moorman in Pro Bowl

In 2007 with the AFC ahead 21-14, a fake punt run was dialed up for Moorman, what proceeded to happen next will live in Pro Bowl legend. Moorman described the play back in 2011 to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk:

“I told our Reebok rep that it was a perfect commercial for their shoes, because they saw the bottom of my shoes immediately. I didn’t know what was — how that was gonna happen. But I remember a flash of John Lynch coming and making a block, I believe on Derrick Brooks — I’ve actually got a picture of that and I remember that flash, and I thought, ‘Oh, I think I can get this,’ so I cut up behind him and that was the last thing I remembered.

Next thing you know, I was down there and [I knew] I’ve gotta pop up quick. I didn’t wanna give him any satisfaction in the fact that he took me out like that. So … luckily he caught me — it was a clean hit; he caught me kind of in the lower part of the shoulder, not too much in the head, and I was able to get up from it. But I was definitely lucky; he did put a pretty good lick on me.

I went out and congratulated him on the hit just so he knew I was up. I just wanted to make sure he knew that I wasn’t still laying there, and I just said, ‘Hey, nice hit. Well done.’ He actually even ripped a hole in my jersey, so I’ve got that thing framed up and a picture beside it, so I’ve got something to remember it by.”

Moorman was a good sport about what was a pure football move, one of the most memorable Pro Bowl plays in recent memory. Taylor’s hit epitomized what he was all about on the football field — one of the hardest hitting safeties to ever play. Unfortunately his life was cut far too short and his full potential was never reached.

[h/t Redskins]

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