Sean Michael Maurice Taylor (April 1 1983 - November 27 2007) was an American football free safety who played for the NFL's Washington Redskins franchise. Collegiately he played for the University of Miami, where he helped lead the Hurricanes to a national championship in 2001. Due to his ferocious style of hitting, his pro teammates (in particular teammate Marcus Washington) nicknamed him "Meast," a reference to half man, half beast.
Taylor was murdered on November 27, 2007, at the age of 24, dying from critical injuries from shots by an intruder at his Miami area home on November 26, 2007. His death led to an outpouring of national support and sympathy, especially in the Washington D.C. area where Taylor was a fan favorite as a Redskin and the Miami area where Taylor had been a standout high school and and college football player. In honor of Taylor, for the first play of the first game after he died, the Redskins defense came out with only 10 players instead of the usual 11.
Sean Taylor (born December 9, 1985 in Wansbeck) is an English footballer who currently plays for Ashington. He has just signed in January 2007, and his first appearance is on 20th January.
Previous clubs include Blackpool and Sunderland, where he appeared often for the reserve side.
Sean Taylor is a British author of children's books. He grew up in Surrey and taught in Zimbabwe before studying at Cambridge, and divides his time between the United Kingdom and Brazil, where his wife is from.
His books include The Great Snake , Purple Class and the Skelington, Purple Class and the Flying Spider and Boing!.
In December 2007, his book When a Monster is Born (ISBN 1596432543), illustrated by Nick Sharratt, won a gold medal in the Nestlé Prize for works for children five years old and under. However, he turned down the prize money from the sponsor, Nestlé, because of "questions surrounding Nestlé’s marketing of breast-milk substitutes".
In January 2008, Nestlé withdrew from the 23 year old sponsorship role of the Booktrust administrated pize for childrens writing.
