[Signed] LT: Over the Edge: Tackling Quarterbacks, Drugs, and a World Beyond Football [SIGNED] Taylor, Lawrence; Serby, Steve [Fine] [Hardcover]

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Fine condition grey boards with a black cloth spine/silver and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition color photographic non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments and Thanks; Author's Note; Prologue: No Superman Here; Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographs. Also includes the career stats of the great New York Giants linebacker. Signed by Lawrence Taylor in thick black Sharpie at the bottom of the full title page. ""You think you know LT? You may know that Lawrence Taylor was All-American at North Carolina, was the only defensive player in NFL history to be consensus Player of the Year, won two Super Bowls, went to the Pro Bowl ten times, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999. Even if you know all these things, you don't even begin to know LT.After all, this is a man who.Drank kamikazes by the pitcher; Climbed the face of his six-story college dorm after a night of partying; Locked Bill Parcells out of practice; Beat curfew by paying ballboys to lie in his bed with lights out; Was handcuffed by a kinky girl in his hotel room before the Saturday-night team meeting - and lost the key; Fell asleep at Bill Belichick's defensive meetings; Had two rottweilers - Kick and Ass; Saved Ray Handley from a potential halftime beating by Carl Banks; Became suicidal when his wife Linda left him; Invited teammates to a party - but only if they brought along five women; Knew only three kinds of friends during the depths of his despair - dealers, addicts, and hookers; Turned his beautiful Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, home into a crack den; Reserved two rooms while on vacation - one for him and his girlfriend, the other so he cold use cocaine; Went to hell and back - and is grateful to be alive."" - from the rear outer jacket