Lawrence Taylor was one of the greatest defensive players in NFL history, and his capacity for off-field partying was nearly as legion.

Bart Oates, the Giants’ starting center from 1985 through 1993, joined FanSided’s “Stacking the Box” podcast this week, and reminisced about how L.T. freakishly did not need rest the night before games. Oates recalled the legendary linebacker breaking curfew, spending all night in Atlantic City, arriving at the game shortly before kickoff — and then dominating.

“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.”

Our best guess for when this game occurred is Oct. 27, 1986, when Taylor had three sacks against Washington, and the Giants won 27-20 at the Meadowlands.

Taylor played for the Giants from 1981-1993, and had 142 career regular season sacks and was a big part of two Super Bowl championships.

If the world ever creates a time machine, a fun place in history to go would be the Giants locker room before kickoff of this game that Oates is describing to see how Bill Parcells reacted to this whole scene.