Vice and Football
- posted by Jim Leitzel @ 5:21 PM

Lawrence Taylor was one of the greatest football players of his
generation. Tomorrow, the television program 60 Minutes is
slated to telecast an interview with Taylor, in which he will
discuss his problems with cocaine -- problems that almost
scuttled his athletic career and continued to cause havoc
with him after his retirement. But the headlines generated
by the interview have been concerned not with drugs, but
with another vice: prostitution. Seems that Taylor would
hire call girls to spend the night before a game with key
players on the opposing team, with a view to tiring them
out. He learned this trick by having once been "victimized"
by it. Here's the New York Post story on the Taylor
interview.

Labels: cocaine, prostitution