LT: Over the Edge: Tackling Quarterbacks, Drugs, and a World Beyond Football: Lawrence Taylor, Steve Serby
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In this slapdash effort, former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor and a supporting cast of characters recall the football legend’s career and personal struggle with drug addiction. On the field, Taylor was universally regarded as the greatest defensive football player in the game’s history. His size, speed and ferocity led the Giants to two Super Bowl championships in 1986 and 1990, and earned Taylor an exalted place in NFL folklore, as well as in the record books and in the Football Hall of Fame. All this for a player, readers learn, who rarely worked out, practiced lazily and played many of his awe-inspiring games hungover. While he was succeeding on the field, off the field Taylor’s life was out of control. He was addicted to cocaine and to a hard-partying lifestyle that eventually led to a divorce, numerous arrests, financial ruin and employment prospects that sunk as low as professional wrestling. Although billed as an autobiography, the book (written with New York Post columnist Serby) is more an oral history, interweaving Taylor’s remembrances with those of former teammates, coaches, sports writers and friends. While there are some memorable anecdotes and a few intimate glimpses, there is surprisingly little new here for Taylor fans beyond the depressing details of his most recent travails. That’s unfortunate-underneath it all, Taylor’ is a truly rich, compelling story. He remains a larger-than-life personality, and one who made extraordinary football history in one of the NFL’s most colorful eras. Still, in this, his second shot at autobiography (his first was LT: Living on the Edge in 1987), the true substance of Lawrence Taylor goes woefully unexamined.
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Product Description
On the football field, Lawrence Taylor was an unstoppable force of nature — arguably the best defensive player in the game and, quite possibly, ever. But off the field, the life of a player who enjoyed a record ten Pro Bowl appearances and led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories was an all-out blitz, fueled by drugs, sex, and booze, and charging at breakneck speed toward total self-destruction. This is the shocking true story of a giant’s fall … and his remarkable journey back to the world.
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