Lawrence Taylor is rooting for Abdul Carter, and would love nothing better than to see the rookie make No. 51 as famous as Taylor made No. 56 as a rookie in 1981.<\/p>\n
LT, from the moment he donned No. 56 for the Giants, was a human tornado who carved a terrifying path of destruction on his way to the quarterback as Defensive Player of the Year and Defensive Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s preseason dream, you may recall, was to wear LT\u2019s retired No. 56<\/a>. In two of the past three games \u2014 benched for one series against the Packers for missing a walk-through and for two series against the Patriots for missing a team function \u2014 the third overall pick of the draft has brought no honor to his No. 51 or to his team<\/a>.<\/p>\n LT would endure his well-documented personal demons later on in a Hall of Fame career that occasionally saw him wreck games even with a hangover. Bill Parcells always used to say that no one wanted to win the game more than Lawrence Taylor come game day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawrence Taylor is rooting for Abdul Carter, and would love nothing better than to see the rookie make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19888,68,32332,9,2683,11,10,22,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-60439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-abdul-carter","9":"tag-exclusive","10":"tag-lawrence-taylor","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}