Daydrian Taylors brutal hit
Getting fired up for the game started watching some old highlights anyone remember Daydrian Taylors hit on Penn St. TE. Penn St. player was a sizable kid, running at full speed down the sideline and taylor like a missle blasts in and knocks him flat on his back. I f someone can do me a favor and post you video of it,( don't know how to) would be great. Damn, we need to get back to playing mean, nasty, in your face defense like that again. Best part, it was on the Penn St. sideline, they kind of looked at each other like"God Damn, these guys came to play". Anybody got any others.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:01 PM ^
It knocked both guys out cold. The sad part was it also ended Taylors career.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:02 PM ^
I didn't know that.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:22 PM ^
It was unsafe to return to football.
December 21st, 2010 at 8:18 PM ^
It ended both of their careers...
Edit: Gah already posted.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:07 PM ^
Delete me please, double post.
December 21st, 2010 at 8:03 PM ^
You can't even see him coming in the clip, scary stuff.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:42 AM ^
Seriously - even when they slow it down, he still looks like a blur. Wow.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:07 PM ^
If I'm not mistaken, it ended both players career. There's no joy in using that hit to pump anyone up or be a guideline for being "mean and nasty". That was just a terrifying hit with no positive outcome.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:12 PM ^
agreed
this is not one of the things that gets me "PUMPED UP" for college football. this is the kind of thing that pushes moms to make their kids play trombone (was going to say soccer).
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:10 AM ^
My mom was proud. I also played soccer though so essentially I have dorkily proven your point. :-)
December 22nd, 2010 at 4:47 PM ^
That game was in Happy Valley and we (the band) did not travel for it. I specifically remember a bunch of us getting together to watch it at someone's house. I want to say it was the college home of fellow MGoBoard member "cjpops," but I think I might be off by a year. Maybe it was at Roger's or Sven's or something like that? Man, those were good times.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 AM ^
I'll have you know the trombone is a beloved and noble instru--
Man, I almost said that with a straight face. Screw trombones. They're too primitive to even have VALVES for god's sake.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:24 PM ^
December 21st, 2010 at 9:42 PM ^
It was a terrible, terrible thing to witness in person. -1 to the OT for reminding me about this.
[Edit: Looks like I'm not the only one.]
December 21st, 2010 at 9:48 PM ^
It won't be the last time you have to do it to one of his threads.
December 22nd, 2010 at 6:46 AM ^
Dennis take your skirt off, both men have no lasting effects from the hit, time to stop curling up in the fetel position and sucking your thumb everytime you see a monster hit.
December 22nd, 2010 at 7:21 AM ^
Both men didn't suffer any effects from it? How about having two scholarship athletes at premier football schools in the country, having worked their asses off for a chance to play in the biggest game of their lives, only to have their dreams of continuing to play college football ripped away from them in one play.
For fuck's sake, Stephenson had to relearn how to walk. Taylor had a fucking broken bone in his neck. Big hits are awesome, but not when both players are knocked unconcious and never play a down of football again.
December 22nd, 2010 at 7:27 AM ^
Was a awful thing, but both have degrees, both have complete movement, free of pain. Taylor says he pulls the video out at family gatherings, so obviously no mental effects from it. Both football careers would have ended at graduation. I guess i'm a bad guy because just like Daydrion, i could watch that hit a hundred times. Defense baby!
December 22nd, 2010 at 7:49 AM ^
December 22nd, 2010 at 7:57 AM ^
Seen your past posts, pretty much discount anything you have to say. Don't you have some funny little line that annoys the hell out of everybody you want to put out there.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:15 AM ^
and yet I agree 100% with him on this (yeah, I need to go take a shower now)....what does that tell you about your idiocy?
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:12 AM ^
It's called "We Hate You. Please die."
Seriously, if your mgoblog account had a face I would punch it in the balls.
(Edit: that might be a bit too subtle a reference. See here if you don't get it:
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:21 AM ^
I am trying to get my bearings on you still. I imagine a 16 year old that has been jipped out of his G.I. Joe Battle Cruiser set so you take out your aggressive tendencies on unexpecting song birds with your Red Rider BB gun for shits and giggles.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:28 AM ^
I picture you living with your life partner todd, smoking your filter tipped cigaretts,throwing peanuts out the window to lure squirrels into your house for you and todd to do god knows what with.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:50 AM ^
Have you been peeping in my windows? That's kind of creepy man. Two things wrong though.
1. His name is Alfonzo
2. We have gerbils. No need to waste our peanuts on squirrels.
Next time just knock, you can be the camera man. ;)
December 22nd, 2010 at 1:13 PM ^
"Take it easy, Champ. Why don't you sit this next one out, stop talking for a while"
December 22nd, 2010 at 7:57 AM ^
You have never played the game of football and if you have certainly not at the college level. As a player these hits don't pump you up, only asshole fans such as yourself get off on them. I expect that you won't understand this based on reading your prior posts and your super tough Arnold avatar. Now go splash on some old spice, chop down a tree, and download some more paralyzing hits as you are the essence of man.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:11 AM ^
Time to grow a pair denny, I sure the game of football can be very scary to kid of your small stature. This is game for men and sure for that reason I'm sure you have been left out, and even been the subject of ridicule. Man-up read my posts and I'll walk you though it.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:13 AM ^
You see Arnold/kid I was actually good enough to get a scholarship to play football which is something you will never achieve. I am assuming you are still in high school. Those type of hits are what we try to avoid. They still happen but again they only pump up people of your mental stature.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:26 AM ^
Sorry we see though you, no scholarship, and you never played the game.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:50 AM ^
negged for flaming douchebaggery.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:11 AM ^
I really didn't want to comment on this post, but fuck you. I didn't mind a lot of your posts, but I will neg every time you ever write again. That was the most terrifying hit I have ever seen and somehow you have a positive (?) spin on it. My brother still has serious nerve damage in his neck from the last touchdown he was ever able to score at Hope. Why would you ever think this is an okay thing to post? There is no way you are not drunk. You fucking asshole piece of shit.
EDIT: I apologize to everyone else for the language.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 AM ^
F*ck me? your going to neg me everytime i post?..... thats it, guess its time to leave, some foul mouth morons going to neg me.Really no sense in living, wheres that sharp knife we have around here.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:47 AM ^
Well, it looks like you won't be posting any new threads for a little while.
That's a step in the right direction.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:16 AM ^
O i will be making more posts, post, after post, after post. Need everybody to up vote me about 500. Lets get this coup started....whos with me....lets goooooo! where is everybody?
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:25 AM ^
You've gone completely sideways man.
December 22nd, 2010 at 4:35 PM ^
for the holiday's sake. Please delete
Merry Christmas.
I need a break and a xanax.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:08 AM ^
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:14 AM ^
I know, im sure all his buddys have their secret decoder rings out sending out the distress call to rescue dennis, and i will be negged into hell. But i guess its in mans nature to destroy himself.
December 21st, 2010 at 11:22 PM ^
And yet, only the outcome is what makes you right in fandom's eyes. If neither player were hurt, that hit would be celebrated as how to play the game. I give you Ray Maualuga's equally vicious hit on UCLA QB Pat Cowan in 2007.
What makes both of these reason not to celebrate was the technique that was used. But only when players get injured do people notice these as "bad." As a matter of fact, they are considered "good." And that's why players continue to play the way they do.
I wish that both the NCAA and NFL would institute a policy that states: "A player who uses his helmet to initiate contact or intentionally delivers a blow to another player's head will be suspended for 1 game or for the duration of the victimized player's injury, whichever is longer."
December 21st, 2010 at 11:33 PM ^
Yes, no doubt about it. The hypocracy by both entities is stunning. While they try to stem these dangerous hits and their consequences, they continue to use them as running advertisements for the greater success of their leagues. Watching what Austin Collie has gone through this season is sickening. I hope there is some reform very soon.
December 22nd, 2010 at 4:51 AM ^
With the fact that every one who has played football was taught to put their helmet on the ball. Players still need to learn to get lower on the defensive side of the ball without dipping their head. What is getting better about football is that you are now starting to get more qualified people (Ex- players) coaching at the lower levels and teaching proper technique. The problem with Taylor's hit, was that he dropped his head. That alone, probably is what caused his injury. If he could have, he should have gotten lower and exploded up. The play still would have been a disaster, because the PSU tight end most likely still would have sustained his inhury.
December 21st, 2010 at 11:36 PM ^
I love watching huge hits in hockey and football to get pumped up...
...but that just hurt me to watch. I actually feel like I have a headache just from watching it. I'm not joking, that was brutal.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:20 PM ^
December 21st, 2010 at 7:22 PM ^
December 21st, 2010 at 7:56 PM ^
Isn't a medical scholarship in that situation normal? I would've been surprised to hear of many career ending injuries sustained during a CFB players time that didn't end up with them at least being allowed to finish school for free.Medical scholarships are a wonderful thing when they aren't abused to do something they aren't for (COUGH SABAN COUGH).
December 21st, 2010 at 11:39 PM ^
Medical redshirt isn't the same thing, and certainly not near as bad as medical scholarshipping to keep extra players or whatever Saban did...
But we are questionably medically redshirting players in order to have played them in games without completely burning the redshirt. Not saying its that bad, but it's technically "something they aren't for"
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:29 AM ^
There's no equivalency in my mind between doing something that extends a player's career and something that ends it involuntarily. "Son, we could take the time to rehab your injury and get you back on the field maybe even this season, but you're just not worth it to us and your scholarship is needed elsewhere."