A world in pictures- Will Mathews

I chose to use a picture that was not as life world changing as 9/11 but something that changed the way football was played. As many people know Lawrence Taylor was one of the best football players of all time he changed the game of football forever when in 1985 he blindsided Joe Thiesmann, which ended Thiemann’s career. Now football and football players have changed their thinking, they have focused more heavily on protecting their quarterbacks so that play like that would never again befall football. They invested more in their offensive tackles to protect the quarterback. All of this information the way football is played can come down to that picture, the signal image, where you can see Taylor coming for the Thiesmann and totally unsuspected he is brutally taken down and with him football changes and evolves. All this based on the single moment that picture of time.