Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) notes that phrases like obviate the necessity or obviate the need are sometimes considered redundant, but these phrases are not redundancies, for the true sense of obviate the necessity is 'to prevent the necessity (from arising),' hence to make unnecessary..
At the Redskins game against the New York Giants on November 30, 2008, Clinton Portis ran down the field with a flag in the team's colors with the number 21 on it to honor the anniversary of Sean Taylor's death.
T. J. Yates. Taylor Jonathan T. Yates (born May 28, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Carolina and was drafted by the Houston Texans in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL Draft.