Updated: Michael Strahan and Warren Sapp trade jabs over Hall of Fame
Written by Adrian Gregory Glover // February 8, 2013 // NFL // No comments
Warren Sapp and Michael Strahan decided to hang it up at the same time.
The endgame is that they both ended up eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame during the 2013 class.
Both are deserving yet observers that note the route that the voters tend to take felt that this one was unusually Strahan friendly.
So much so that many concluded that Strahan was a first ballot entry without question.
The odds on two defensive linemen getting yellow jackets in a class of five that also included two shoe-in offensive linemen, were slim to say the least.
Strahan has more sacks, rode out on the back of a Super Bowl victory over the almost-perfect edition of the New England Patriots and he has maintained a bucketful of crossover media appeal since he left the game.
Strahan’s resume may have been too perfect because as we know now Sapp got in and Strahan did not.
That did not stop Sapp from commenting on the fact that he felt just like everyone else did.
Sapp told WDAE-AM 620, why he felt that way before he was called up to Canton, Ohio.
“Say if I rewind this to Saturday at 12 o’clock me and you are sitting and I say, ‘It breaks down whatever and whatever and then you have Michael Strahan and me. C’mon, the menace and the media darling,’” Sapp said. “C’mon. Madness, or Good Morning America? I mean, c’mon.”
Strahan took it to Twitter to display that he took the comments as a diss.
@warrensapp You never cease to amaze me! Enjoy your moment. You don’t need to take a shot at me to justify yourself to other people. #class
— Michael Strahan (@michaelstrahan) February 8, 2013
Update: The barbs continued after the initial posting of this story.
@michaelstrahan we stop competing 5+yrs ago! #AllTheBest
— Warren Sapp (@WarrenSapp) February 8, 2013
@warrensapp I only competed against myself. Don’t let people make you get at me to justify your HOF selection. Enjoy it because u earned it.
— Michael Strahan (@michaelstrahan) February 8, 2013
You have my # too. I’m a grown man and handle myself like one. Respect me and I respect you! “@warrensapp: @michaelstrahan u got my #!”
— Michael Strahan (@michaelstrahan) February 8, 2013
@warrensapp I congratulate you on the HOF. You were a HOF player no doubt. Enjoy it and hopefully I will join u in Canton one day! Congrats
— Michael Strahan (@michaelstrahan) February 8, 2013
In the middle of all of this stood two tweets that Sapp deleted.
“You don’t need to take a shot at me. u got my #!”
Sapp also tweeted “Tell Us Why You Really Mad Son?”
Most took it as Sapp being…Sapp.
As my grandmother used to say’ he plays too much.’
Is Strahan being too sensitive ?
Sound off.
