Otis Williams, who owns the rights to the group's name and is still a member of the band, is the only member who remains. "Otis is living the life of luxury," Ollie Gates, a dear friend, tells The Kansas City Star as he musters a sad chuckle.To view Taylor's frame is to assume he could put on cleats right now and resume his stellar career with the Chiefs, says Stu Stram, a son of late Chiefs coach Hank Stram.To see him, adds another of Hank Stram's sons, Dale, is to imagine that if you threw up a ball, he'd leap up to catch it.Just like he would have at the first of 50 Super Bowls commemorated last Sunday.Taylor always seemed like he was an infallible immortal and there was nothing he couldn't do on his way to revolutionizing the receiver position with then-Chiefs records of 410 catches and 17.8 yards a catch — numbers that don't do justice to his snubbed candidacy for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.All of these current images of Taylor are true.But all of them also are a mirage of sorts.Ultimately, they are poignant points of contrast that render friends of Taylor marveling amid their anguish over his mournful existence over the last decade-plus — a story conspicuous even among the many of hardships or premature deaths of the 1966 Chiefs. "It's tragic," said Dale Stram, who now lives in Louisiana and last saw him in 2014.It's one of the most piercing things Gates has ever seen, a fact that makes Bell wince and the Stram boys shake their heads and might make about anyone just want to weep.Ravaged by what the family in a 2012 lawsuit against the NFL attributed to Parkinson's disease and associated dementia initially diagnosed in 1990, Taylor is bedridden, non-verbal, unable to walk and dependent on a feeding tube in his stomach for all sustenance.The suit asserts that the NFL is legally responsible for his injuries, noting that Taylor suffered seizures in 1969. ".As in any excruciating end-of-life scenario, there are many variables and unknowns in all this.But there are important things for all of us to ask ourselves here, whether what you think football might do to you, or what you'd want done for you if you were incapacitated late in your life.Not everyone, after all, has Odell Taylor to stand by them.In the history of the world, Ollie Gates says, this is "the greatest love you've ever seen from one person to another. In Mo' Better Blues old and new aspects of the blues are presented, the evidence that this genre is still very alive. Chicago born guitarist Otis Taylor first made a noise in the world in the sixties with his Otis Taylor Blues Band and his membership of the T&O Short Line with singer/guitarist Tommy Bolin.
"Pending the appeal, it could adjust the amounts that people are due either way," said Bill Kenney, the family's co-counsel in the suit.What clearly isn't subject to change, though, is another contention of the suit: that Taylor requires "constant medical care and supervision. "But you don't know what he knows and doesn't know. Betty Lynn, who played Barney Fife’s girlfriend Thelma Lou, turns 90 on Aug. 29, 2016. Otis Campbell is the fictional "town drunk" in Mayberry on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. Chiefs - Otis Taylor (Game Worn) This is Otis Taylors game worn helmet. Otis was played by Hal Smith and made frequent appearances on the show from 1960 to 1967 but stopped appearing toward the end of the series because of concerns raised by the sponsors over the portrayal of excessive drinking.. Download our mobile app now. ".And this is where a heartwarming element of this crushing story comes into play.More than a decade ago, as her brother's deterioration became evident, Florence Odell Taylor, a licensed vocational nurse since 1959, abruptly abandoned her life and home in Houston to be at his side.As soon as she was done helping her mother through Alzheimer's, that is.It's not known whether Taylor's sister was named for Florence Nightingale, perhaps the most famous and influential of nurses, but the woman better known now as Odell surely has honored that namesake.She just about literally hasn't left her brother's side since.As you read these words, she is next to him or feeding him or bathing him or turning him in his bed or cutting his hair or rubbing his feet or dressing him or otherwise ministering to him.Bell has heard it said that when Taylor was taken for a doctor's visit a few years ago, the doctor called in other nurses and wanted them to behold the 200-pound plus bedridden man with no bed sores.You might say Odell does nothing but this from the moment she gets up, but that would be understating the all-consuming allegiance of a woman who makes her bed of a chair by him.