After he got that fateful knock on his hotel room door Saturday evening, Jason Taylor texted to thank me for presenting him before the Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors and at the end of that text he said, “you had your work cut out for you and you did it. Can’t thank you enough.”
And I’m touched that Taylor was as gracious and classy as I’ve always known him to be the past 20 years that I’ve worked with him.
But with all due respect, he was wrong on this one.
Taylor, you see, was going to be a Hall of Famer way before I walked into that room with 47 other selectors Saturday morning.