REPORT: Green Bay Packers Legend Sterling Sharpe Has Shocking Reaction to Hall of Fame Nod; “I Never Wanted This”

Green Bay Packers, Sterling Sharpe

Green Bay Packers fans got some news for which they had been waiting for over 25 years on Thursday night: Sterling Sharpe is going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

While his career was cut short by a neck injury that forced him to retire after just seven seasons, there is denying the fact that Sharpe was one of the greatest wide receivers of all time.

Despite only playing seven years, Sharpe still holds high ranks among Packers wide receivers. He is third in franchise history in receptions (595), third in receiving yards (8,134), and fourth in touchdown receptions (65).

And while Packers fans were thrilled to hear that he had finally gotten voted for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the man himself, while happy, revealed that he never thought it would happen.

Former Green Bay Packers Wide Receiver Sterling Sharpe Never Wanted the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Green Bay Packers, Mike Holmgren, Sterling Sharpe

One of the most enjoyable parts about the annual revealing of the Hall of Fame class is the door knocking videos in which a current Hall of Fame player gets to break the news to a new inductee that they are joining in them in Canton.

As many would have guessed, to was Sterling’s younger brother, Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe, who got to surprise him with the news.

About three minutes into the video, Sterling tells Shannon, “No one can say there is no God. Because I never dreamed it.

I never wanted it before. I never dreamed it. I never wanted it. It was too far away. I never considered. Never considered this.

“When I walked away in ’95, I don’t think anyone in the world was happier than me because I did what I wanted to do. I don’t know how to feel, or how to react, or how to act, how to behave. I just know this honor is going to take something. Some getting used to because I never wanted this.”

Obviously, the elder Sharpe is thrilled that he is going to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year.

However, he had probably convinced himself that Canton was out of his reach after over two decades of falling short.

With his induction this summer, he and Shannon will be the first pair of brothers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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