Green Bay Packers legend Sterling Sharpe is going to get inducted into the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame but his brother had to take the spotlight before all that as Shannon Sharpe gets dragged into a scandal.
Shannon is an equally talented football player like Sterling, having won three Super Bowl titles and making it to the First Team All-Pro in a 13-year NFL career. He became an analyst for NFL and NBA after he hang up his boots.
He had a good commentator career going but it recently took a hit when he was hit by a sexual assault lawsuit by an ex-girlfriend last April. He eventually settled with the plaintiff.
“Both sides acknowledge a long-term consensual and tumultuous relationship. After protracted and respectful negotiations, I’m pleased to announce that we have reached a mutually agreed upon resolution,” his attorney Tony Buzbee said in a statement via TMZ.
“All matters have now been addressed satisfactorily, and the matter is closed. The lawsuit will thus be dismissed with prejudice.”
He is now moving on but ESPN fired him a few days ago, something he rues because of the timing.
Green Bay Packers, Sterling Sharpe’s moment overshadowed?
Is Shannon a bigger personality than his brother Sterling Sharpe? That’s what the former must be thinking. Or maybe he’s just feeling ashamed.
The younger Sharpe seems to have accepted his fate but he thought the media should have waited first to have his brother get named to the Hall of Fame in a Thursday ceremony.
“I found out this information a little earlier in the week. The only thing I really asked is if we can wait until Monday,” he said in a video posted through the Nightcap Show X account.
“My brother’s going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I really wanted it to be about him, and I wanted it to be about family.”
“I just wish this thing could have waited until Monday,” he added. “I wanted it to be about everything he worked his entire life for.”
Sterling’s HoF inclusion was announced on February. He played all his career with the Packers from 1988 to 1994.
His career was cut short by a neck injury but he still managed to make the most of it by earning First-team All-Pro and five Pro Bowl honors. He even gets called as the “What if GOAT”.
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