Warren Sapp rips on Michael Strahan; says he doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame

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Warren Sapp was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame last year. He doesn’t think Michael Strahan deserves to join him this year.

Sapp said at Super Bowl Media Day that Strahan simply wasn’t good enough to make it.

“I don’t think his résumé stacks up,” Sapp said, via Neil Best of Newsday. “He only has four straight Pro Bowls and a mythical sack record. When you really measure him up he comes up short.”

Sapp has been complaining for years about Strahan’s sack record of 22.5, which Strahan set in the last game of the 2001 season when Brett Favre appeared to slide down in front of him intentionally to hand him the record. Sapp said while they were both still playing that there should be an asterisk next to his record because it wasn’t a real record; Strahan responded that there should be a McDonald’s next to Sapp’s house because Sapp is fat.

But Sapp is wrong about Strahan’s Pro Bowls. In fact, Sapp and Strahan were chosen to the same number of Pro Bowls (seven) and to the same number of first-team All-Pro teams (four).

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7× Pro Bowl (1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005)
4× First-team All-Pro (1997, 1998, 2001, 2003)
2× Second-team All-Pro (2002, 2005)
Super Bowl champion (XLII)
2× NFC Champion (2000, 2007)
AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year (2001)
2× NFC Defensive Player of the Year (2001, 2003)
NFL Alumni Pass Rusher of the Year (2003)
Fifth in All-Time Career Sacks
NFL season sacks record (22.5)
New York Giants career sacks record (141.5)
NFL 2000s All-Decade Team
New York Giants Ring of Honor
Ranked 99th by The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players

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On Wednesday, Boomer Esiason weighed in on the matter during The Boomer and Carton Show.

"He doesn't realize when he's insulting people," Esiason said. "He's insulted me. He's insulted Michael Strahan now, he's insulted other players, and he never ever looks in the mirror to realize what his words and how he delivers his words … and the weight that they carry and the sting that comes along with them.

"And quite frankly, I think he's an embarrassment to anybody who's ever played the game of football because he feels like he's on an island somewhere by himself. And his unprovoked attack on Michael Strahan is ridiculous."

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