If the loudest voices of social media had their way, Terrance Taylor would not be lining up for the Toledo football team at Northern Illinois on Saturday.
He wouldn’t be playing at all.
A year ago, you may recall, one bad play turned the junior defensive end into a one-dimensional bad guy.
After Taylor was ejected from a nationally televised weeknight game against Northern Illinois for a devastating late hit on the quarterback, the Internet exploded, with no adjective off limits.
Awful. Blatant. Breathtaking. Brutal. Disgraceful. Egregious. Horrendous. Nasty. Ugly. Vicious. Violent.
All were used in the headlines of online stories, one of which declared: “Dirty Cheap Shot Easily Ranks as Worst Hit of the Year.