Sterling Sharpe HoF

[Firethorn1001]

Add another name to the ring, he's in.

Unfortunate for the neck injury otherwise this would have happened years ago.

I always like the videos when they are told.

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[Pugger]

Shannon always said Sterling was better than he was. It was unfortunate Sterling's career was cut short. He would have broken records left and right with Favre.

 

[gopkrs]

I also liked Sterling on his NFL TV show

 

[Voyageur]

I think he deserves to be in the HOF. His off-field antics in Wisconsin weren't the best press in the world but that's not what happened inside the game. Congrats to him. He's added to the long list of retired Packers who have been so honored.

 

[El Guapo]

I never thought that they would pull the trigger. Sterling deserves it. I do wonder if he'll talk to the media in Canton!

Congrats!

 

[AmishMafia]

I am surprised. I thought his unfortunately truncated career removed this possibility. Very happy for him!

One of the great speculations of what might have been if he didn't get injured.

 

[weeds]

A couple more years with Favre at QB and he'd have been a first ballot HOF'er

 

[Sanguine camper]

Happy for Sterling Sharpe. While he played, he was a HOF talent. Too bad he had the neck injury. He'd of rewritten all the Packer WR records and maybe helped put the Packers as repeat SB winners in 96 and 97.

Neck injuries while Favre was QB seemed to be all too common. Sharpe, Mark Chamura,Beebe, come to mind. Perhaps because Favre had such a monster arm, he was able to throw into very tight windows but his receivers took a beating as a result.

 

[RicFlairoftheNFL]

Let's be honest he's deserving but he shouldn't be in with the way he sh** talked the Packers on that Primetime feature during the Superbowl years.

 

[weeds]

Let's be honest he's deserving but he shouldn't be in with the way he sh** talked the Packers on that Primetime feature during the Superbowl years.

I only care about what he did with his legs and hands - flapping his lips auditioning for a permanent gig doesn't bother me - except when Greg Jennings had his sister talking for him.. now that was something.

Longwell talking crap about Green Bay in general sucked because he was picked off the scrap heap by GB.

 

[gopkrs]

Let's be honest he's deserving but he shouldn't be in with the way he sh** talked the Packers on that Primetime feature during the Superbowl years.

Whenever I watched him on his own program; he would often talk about "his" Green Bay Packers."

 

[Zartan]

I don't remember much of his as I was a bit on the young side when he played. But my dad says if he didn't get hurt Pack would have won at least one more ring during the 90s.

 

[rmontro]

Sharpe certainly deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. My memory though, is that losing Sharpe contributed to the success of the team, as counterintuitive as that sounds. With Sharpe gone, Favre had to learn to spread the ball around. Before that, he would try to force it to Sharpe too much. Sharpe was very respected, and would demand the ball a lot. The team as a whole was forced to grow. That's the way I remember it, anyway.

 

[gopkrs]

Sharpe certainly deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. My memory though, is that losing Sharpe contributed to the success of the team, as counterintuitive as that sounds. With Sharpe gone, Favre had to learn to spread the ball around. Before that, he would try to force it to Sharpe too much. Sharpe was very respected, and would demand the ball a lot. The team as a whole was forced to grow. That's the way I remember it, anyway.

While I understand your train of thought and see how it relates to Rodgers/Davante; it has to be a very rare occasion that you lose a hall of famer still in his strong years, and be better for it.

 

[rmontro]

While I understand your train of thought and see how it relates to Rodgers/Davante; it has to be a very rare occasion that you lose a hall of famer still in his strong years, and be better for it.

And yet, it happened.

 

[weeds]

And yet, it happened.

You know, I agree with the concept but it seems to me that Robert Brooks stepped right in and became a Prime #1 until injury blew him up early during the '96 Super Bowl run. Brooks had a BIG 1995, got his money and went down in early '96 ... never to be heard from again.

-edit- my comment "...never to be heard from again..." made me go back and check that... he had a pretty decent '97, I just don't remember much of that one, capped by Super Bowl 32. Checking that comment, I was reminded of just how gruesome that '96 injury was. Anyway, he, like Sharpe both South Carolina products... and Brooks managed to break several of Sharpe's Packer records in even LESS playing time... funny how that one works out.

 

[GBkrzygrl]

Add another name to the ring, he's in.

Unfortunate for the neck injury otherwise this would have happened years ago.

I always like the videos when they are told.

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So happy for him. It's about time.

 

[RicFlairoftheNFL]

Whenever I watched him on his own program; he would often talk about "his" Green Bay Packers."

So you missed the hit piece by ESPN then that he was part of where he talked smack about the Packers fans.

 

[gopkrs]

So you missed the hit piece by ESPN then that he was part of where he talked smack about the Packers fans.

Yeah. What did he say? Was that before his program with I think Baldy and someone else.

 

[Pugger]

I think he deserves to be in the HOF. His off-field antics in Wisconsin weren't the best press in the world but that's not what happened inside the game. Congrats to him. He's added to the long list of retired Packers who have been so honored.

What the heck happened there when Sterling stopped talking to the WI press? I can't recall...

 

[Pugger]

I only care about what he did with his legs and hands - flapping his lips auditioning for a permanent gig doesn't bother me - except when Greg Jennings had his sister talking for him.. now that was something.

Longwell talking crap about Green Bay in general sucked because he was picked off the scrap heap by GB.

What crap did Longwell say? Applebees?

 

[weeds]

What crap did Longwell say? Applebees?

Yes. Exactly. He wasn't entirely wrong but the very fact that he said it... well, infers that Green Bay is back-water. I get it, he was playing to his new audience - but, he's not in the Vikings Hall of Fame (if they have one).

 

[weeds]

What the heck happened there when Sterling stopped talking to the WI press? I can't recall...

Your question prompted me to go looking - I guess I never noticed that much. MY BIGGEST irritant I remember was when he threatened to not play right before the '94 season opener.

SHARPE SILENCE BRINGS POINTED CRITICISM FROM NFL

Sterling Sharpe, who routinely catches footballs and praise, caught flak from the NFL last week for refusing to participate in a national teleconference interview before the Packers-Lions game. Sha…

www.chicagotribune.com

 

[Pugger]

Yes. Exactly. He wasn't entirely wrong but the very fact that he said it... well, infers that Green Bay is back-water. I get it, he was playing to his new audience - but, he's not in the Vikings Hall of Fame (if they have one).

Of course what team did he want to retire with and return for alumni gatherings? I am a GB native but this comment he made never bothered me. I always assumed Applebee's was his favorite? The ones they have down here are always packed. We usually try to find local restaurants over chains.

 

[RicFlairoftheNFL]

Yeah. What did he say? Was that before his program with I think Baldy and someone else.

This was on Primetime around '96 on ESPN...they did a hit piece on the fans, where Sharpe and the rest of the people involved made fans look and sound like a bunch of racists.