Joe Rimkus Jr./Miami Herald
Jason Taylor visited the hospital a few days before Christmas with his wife and three kids. They brought a lot of toys for kids with cancer, burn victims, children with deformities. Taylor's children didn't want to leave, they were having so much fun playing, connecting, giving -- unwrapping, in other words, Dad's real and lasting gifts. Later that night, over prayer, his kids thanked each of the children they met by name, and damn if that didn't just about make the tough, old football player cry. It can make you emotional, getting old. Appreciative, too.
Looking back -- something he has done a lot over the last few weeks, ever since he decided this new year would mark the beginning of the end of football -- Taylor realized this: All those blessings that surrounded him in that ...
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