Matt LaFleur is entering his seventh season with the Green Bay Packers. That’s the same number of years Sterling Sharpe spent with the team.
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People will see the seven years as “too short” to judge someone’s sports legacy but for Sharpe he made the most out of it and now, he is going to be inducted into the football Hall of Fame.
Sharpe was Packers’ wider receiver from 1988 to 1994 and during this span, he accomplished everything there is to accomplish individually.
LaFleur said this is what makes his feat more impressive.
“What a great honor,” LaFleur said on Thursday.
“I mean, obviously the ultimate honor as an individual. I remember watching him growing up, and just an unbelievable player whose career got cut a little short. But I think that’s even more impressive what he was able to accomplish that he’s in the Hall of Fame.”
Sharpe, drafted by the team seventh overall in 1988, is a two-time NFL receiving touchdowns leader and three-time receptions leader. He was named to the a First Team member thrice and got named to the Pro Bowl five times.
Sterling Sharpe’s career was cut short
Sharpe was a dominant player right from his very first season. He could have carved a much better career if not for an injury that came out of nowhere.
It was discovered that he had a neck injury by summer of 1994. He needed surgery to fix the looseness in the top two vertebrae.
“I had symptoms for like nine weeks that was leading up to, you know, ‘This is it,'” Sharpe said when asked in an episode of Club Shay Shay podcast about how he dealt with his injury.
“Which made it easier for me. It wasn’t like one hit, that’s it. I had enough telltale signs that it was like, ‘This is it.'”
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