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Shannon Sharpe
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| Shannon Sharpe | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | June 26, 1968 (age 38) |
| Place of birth |  Chicago, Illinois |
| Position(s) | Tight end |
| College | Savannah State |
| NFL Draft | 1990 / Round 7/ Pick 192 |
| Career Highlights | |
| Pro Bowls | 8 |
| Honors | NFL 1990s All-Decade Team |
| Stats | |
| Statistics | |
| Team(s) | |
| 1990-1999 2000-2001 2002-2003 |
Denver Broncos Baltimore Ravens Denver Broncos |
Shannon Sharpe (born June 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American Football tight end and wide receiver who played 12 of his 14 seasons with the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Sharpe is known most for his super muscular body[citation needed], creative commentary and trash talking[citation needed] as well as for being the premier tight end of his era[citation needed], and perhaps the greatest tight end of all time[citation needed].
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Shannon, the younger brother of former NFL wide receiver Sterling Sharpe, grew up poor in Glennville, Georgia. He once joked, "We were so poor, a robber once broke into our house and we ended up robbing the robber." [1]
Sharpe graduated with a degree in criminal justice from Savannah State College (since 1996 Savannah State University). He commented: "I was a terrible student. I didn't graduate magna cum laude, I graduated 'Thank you, Lawdy!'" [2] At Savannah State he played football and basketball and competed in triple jump.
Sharpe was selected in the 7th round of the 1990 NFL Draft, 192nd overall, by the Broncos. [3] He had a mediocre rookie season as a wide receiver, until Broncos head coach Dan Reeves convinced him to convert to tight end. He remained with Denver until 1999 [4], winning two championship rings in Super Bowl XXXII and Super Bowl XXXIII in the process. After the 1997 season [5] championship, his first, he appeared on General Mills' Wheaties boxes with four other Broncos. [6] After a two-year stint with the Baltimore Ravens, where he won another championship ring in Super Bowl XXXV, he returned to the Broncos. He played there until 2003 [7]. Then he retired to become an NFL broadcaster. [8]
Ozzie Newsome, Hall-of-Fame tight end, Ravens' general manager, and the man responsible for signing Sharpe before the 2000 season had this to say about him, "I think he's a threat when he's on the field. He has to be double-teamed. He's a great route-runner. He's proven that he can make the big plays. That's what separates him. He's a threat." Sharpe played in 8 Pro Bowls(1992-1998, 2001) and amassed over 1,000 receiving yards in 3 different seasons. In a 1993 playoff game against the Los Angeles Raiders, Sharpe tied a postseason record with 13 receptions for 156 yards and a touchdown. In the Ravens 2000 AFC title game against the Raiders, he caught a short pass on 3rd down and 18 from his own 4-yard line and took it 96 yards for a touchdown, assisting his team to a 16-3 win. He finished his 14 year career with 815 receptions for 10,060 yards and 62 touchdowns in 204 games. Sharpe is the NFL's all-time receptions and yardage leader for a tight end, surpassing Newsome's Hall-of-Fame records.
| Year | Team | Games | Rec | Yards | Y/R | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Denver Broncos | 16 | 7 | 99 | 14.1 | 1 |
| 1991 | Denver Broncos | 16 | 22 | 322 | 14.6 | 1 |
| 1992 | Denver Broncos | 16 | 53 | 640 | 12.1 | 2 |
| 1993 | Denver Broncos | 16 | 81 | 995 | 12.3 | 9 |
| 1994 | Denver Broncos | 15 | 87 | 1010 | 11.6 | 4 |
| 1995 | Denver Broncos | 13 | 63 | 756 | 12 | 4 |
| 1996 | Denver Broncos | 15 | 80 | 1062 | 13.3 | 10 |
| 1997 | Denver Broncos | 16 | 72 | 1107 | 15.4 | 3 |
| 1998 | Denver Broncos | 16 | 64 | 768 | 12.0 | 10 |
| 1999 | Denver Broncos | 5 | 23 | 224 | 9.7 | 0 |
| 2000 | Baltimore Ravens | 16 | 67 | 810 | 12.1 | 5 |
| 2001 | Baltimore Ravens | 16 | 73 | 811 | 11.1 | 2 |
| 2002 | Denver Broncos | 12 | 61 | 686 | 11.2 | 3 |
| 2003 | Denver Broncos | 15 | 62 | 770 | 12.4 | 8 |
| Total | - | 203 | 815 | 10060 | 12.3 | 62 |
He is now a commentator for the CBS Sports pregame show The NFL Today, including the Nextel Halftime Report and the Subway Postgame Show, replacing Deion Sanders and co-hosting with James Brown (formerly with FOX NFL Sunday) and former NFL quarterbacks Dan Marino and Boomer Esiason. [9] In the 2004 NFL regular season [10], Sharpe defeated Marino and Esiason in the pick 'em game of The NFL Today with a 53-21 record. His critics say that his broadcasting skills are hurt by his poor grammar and pronouncation of words (Sharpe has a very noticeable lisp and drawl).
Sharpe also appears on SIRIUS NFL Radio's Movin' The Chains and writes a column on NFL.com [11].
Sharpe now resides in Glennville in his free time. On the National Football League Players' Association Players Inc. Web site [12], while he played in Denver, he cited his hobbies as fishing, basketball, weight lifting, and spending time with his Rottweiler dogs. He also played in the 2005 World Series of Poker.
Sharpe will be eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
Sharpe appears in ESPN NFL 2K5 as a free agent tight end. His then-ESPN colleagues Mel Kiper, Trey Wingo, and Chris Berman also appear as unlockable free agents in season mode.
- People Sharpe has commented on:
- WR Plaxico Burress: "Plexiglas"
- RB Corey Dillon, "the biggest robbery since the Louisiana Purchase" (Subway Postgame Show, 2005-01-16, AFC divisional game IND 3 - NE 20)
- QB Jake Plummer: "They're about to take out the 'SN' in Snake and put an 'F' in front of it." (from Movin' the Chains) [13]
- QB Kyle Boller: "You do have your teammates behind you: your fullback and your halfback, and that’s only because they have to be." [14]
- LB London Fletcher-Baker: "LondonFletcher-Baker.com; he's logged in."
- Pro-Football-Reference.com - career statistics.
- NFL.com - Shannon Sharpe
- CBS Sports Team - CBS SportsLine.com
- Wheaties
- NFL Today - CBS SportsLine.com. CBS SportsLine.com. Retrieved on January 8, 2005.
- MSN Search: "Shannon Sharpe". MSN News Search. Retrieved on January 13, 2005.
- NFL.com - NFL Writers. NFL.com. Retrieved on January 8, 2005.
- The NFL Today weekly transcripts 2004: Wk 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|Wild Card
- SI.com - Writers - Peter King MMQB: With Shannon Sharpe, what you hear is what you get - Monday May 24, 2004 12:45PM
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