Lawrence Taylor sat down with Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes" and told him and the world of his excesses in the National Football League.

Lawrence Taylor, better known as LT, is considered one of the best football players of our generation, a defensive player who changed the way the game of pro football was played on the field. And, according to his book, he changed the way the game of pro football was play off the field, too.

Drugs, hookers, parties, sex, guns, more drugs, more sex, more hookers and ladies of easy persuasion, LT lived the life that only a very few people have ever tasted and lived to tell the tales.

OK, that's enough. LT wrote a book, got onto "60 Minutes" and is telling everyone who will and is listening about all of the secrets he's had as a pro football player for the New York Giants. He even got his friends to fill in the blanks when the drugs, alcohol, time and excess erased the details from his mind.

It is an easy hook to sell a book --- drugs, sex, football. ESPN did a series called "Playmakers" that focused on the off-the-field lives of a fictional football team and its players' excesses into, well, drugs, sex and football.

"I loved the big city, the bright lights and all the action. By '83, on a typical night out, I'd get some coke from some Spanish guys in Harlem. In the apartment there'd be one guy with a .38. There'd be another guy sitting at a table. I'd tell him how much I wanted, he'd measure it and put it in a bag. I'd buy about six, seven hundred dollars worth, then look out world.

"To keep myself entertained, I'd stand on a bar stool, then dive off into a handstand. Or pull one of my old college tricks and chew some glass. Pitchers of kamikazes can do that to you. One time in Houston, some guys on the Oilers tried to mess my game up by sending two girls to my hotel. --- Lawrence Taylor, "LT: Over The Edge" as published in ESPN, The Magazine.

Sounds like something from a fictional novel, eh?

Look, LT as a football player was great, one of the best in the game. Off the field, LT was a tortured soul who had plenty of expendable cash, time on his hands and demons in his head to battle with booze, drugs, sex and parties. As an athlete, he's revered. As a person, he should be feared and pitied.

Now he's put everything he's done into a book, maybe to clear the air, maybe to see if America will buy it to find out --- and live vicariously for the length of the book --- what it was like to be a party animal in New York City in the 1980s.

But is it worth out time to pick up and read? Only if you really want to know what it was like to be LT then. After watching "60 Minutes" and reading the excerpts (yes, I'll admit that I haven't nor will I read the book), LT now is just someone who is neither a sympathetic nor a pious man. He's just a former pro football player trying to sell his name one more time with the only currency he has left --- his dignity.