New York in the 1980s was a playground for celebrities and anyone with a buck (present company included). The New York Mets were notorious late-night partiers and the list of sports figures who bent the rules didn’t end there.

Lawrence Taylor, the superstar linebacker of the New York Giants, leveraged his celebrity into a dangerous and near-destructive lifestyle fueled with drugs and alcohol that the club and his teammates did their best to conceal.

The stories of Taylors exploits have trickled out over the years and are still dropping as the years unwind.

In a recent interview on the podcast Stacking The Box, former Giants center Bart Oates revealed the following L.T. legendary tidbit.

“I remember one night, his room was next to mine at the hotel,” Oates said. “Even home games we’d stay at a hotel the night before, and there was a curfew. Lawrence was there for curfew, then the door opens, he’s gone. He goes down to Atlantic City — we’re playing the Washington Redskins the next day — and comes back, has a limo drop him off at the stadium after being in Atlantic City all night.

“[He] takes out a wad of cash, hundreds, throws them up there, gets his stuff on. . . He’s there, you know, 40 minutes before the game starts, and he goes out there, has 3.5 sacks, and just kills the Redskins.”

It was said that Taylor did not need the required rest of most humans and his workout regimen was less than ideal. The Giants looked the other way as long as Taylor produced, which he historically did time and time again.