I Can't Get Enough Of Bill Burr's Stories About Lawrence Taylor Not Knowing Other NFL Teams Names While He Was Playing

I love this. Fucking love this. Lawrence Taylor one of the greatest football players, and maybe best defensive player, of all time. Total wackjob but boy could he play. 

All time player but WACKJOB. Rumors of sending prostitutes to the other team's hotel. Sleeping through team meetings yet knowing all the plays, being an unreal athlete, losing his Super Bowl ring, and crashing his Ferrari on the way to a game and hitchhiking to the game. Lunatic. 

But this latest one is my favorite because forgetting things and names is inherent in football. Every coach I ever played for would screw up a guys name, first, last or sometimes both, for years. If you watch Friday Night Lights the TV Show, one of my favorite recurring bits was Coach Taylor calling Landry ... "Lance" the entire show. I played for a coach who called a kid named Matt ... "Dan" for his entire career. It became so mainstay he would tell girls on campus his nam was Dan. Coaches do that kind of stuff. I don't know what it is, maybe it's remembering all the checkdowns, blitzes and play names, but somewhere in those crazy brains they can't recall names.It's like their maxed out for certain info. 

That's what we have here for Lawrence Taylor. But with this, he couldn't even name the teams he played ! That's a one of one story. And Bill Burr puts it perfectly that it was like Taylor couldn't bother with info he didn't deem essential. The man was put on this earth to inflict pain on others. He was sent to learn how to tackle not learn who he tackled. You have to let him off the hook with this one. If anything you should be more impressed with his dedication to his craft. One of the best to ever do it ... who cares if he can't name 3 teams in his division! All time clip. Loved this one, and Burr's delivery was great.