Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices.Drafted seventh overall in the first round by the Packers out of South Carolina in 1988 after a record-breaking college career, Sharpe caught 55 passes his first season and then started to come alive in his second season, grabbing a league-leading 90 receptions for 1,423 yards.Sharp caught everything that was thrown his way in 1992. Mora is the godfather of one of Sidwell's children.This season's total surpassed last year's record mark of 13,966,843 and its average attendance a game, 62,656, surpassed the previous record of 62,352, also set last year."There could be some long-term ramifications of not having surgery that we don't think are smart to live with," McKenzie said.NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28 (AP) -- The coordinator and the line coach who oversaw a New Orleans defense that went from being one of the best in the National Football League to one of the worst were dismissed today by the Saints.The Packers also lost rookie running back LeShon Johnson for the playoffs. You know—the player who turns in a few incredible seasons before injuries abruptly end his career. He started 112 games, caught 595 passes for 8,134 yards, 65 touchdowns, and a per-game average of 72.6 yards.Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on Green Bay Packers and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more.Then in 1994, his final season, Sharpe recorded his third straight 1,000-yard season with 94 catches for 1,119 yards, a career high 18 touchdowns and a per-game average of 69.9 yards.So when Sharpe announced that he was forced to retire because of the injury, it was indeed a sad day – “the day the game died.”In 1990, Sharpe caught just 67 passes for 1,105 yards and in 1991 the numbers were similar – 69 receptions for 961 yards.His brother, Shannon, upon his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, said it best when he said he was the second best receiver in his family.Had Sharpe not gotten injured, would this team have established a dynasty that could have matched the Packers of the 1960s?
I can attack his technique all day. The speed of the game. I could watch film; I could call coaches. He again experienced numbness in his limbs after he was tackled in the fourth period by cornerback Charles Dimry.In seven N.F.L. It started out as a joke, but then it got to the point where it was like, it’s working! 1 Sharpe suffered a severe neck injury during the 1994 season and was forced to retire at age 29.He responded with one of the greatest seasons by a wide receiver in NFL history.Sharpe started all 16 games his rookie season, catching 55 passes for 791 yards and a touchdown.Let's credit Sharpe with, at minimum, four more seasons at approximately 80 percent of his peak value, meaning that his average season from 1998-01 would look like this: 84 receptions, 1,028 yards, and 11 touchdowns.Sharpe earned Pro Bowl honors in 1990, his third season, by catching 67 passes for 1,105 yards and six touchdowns. I definitely believe there are a lot of guys who played football who have a lot of things wrong with them. He set franchise records with 90 catches and 1,423 yards, and his 12 touchdowns were the second-highest total in the NFL.From 1992-94, Sharpe's average season looked like this: 105 receptions, 1,285 yards, and 14 touchdowns.It's difficult to project, but Sharpe may have even performed better. If it wasn’t for Joe Carter, I would not be at this stadium. During the 1994 season, Sterling suffered a severe neck injury. Neck Injury. Yeah, I would let my kid play.We didn't recognize that password reset code. It will take eight months to recover from the procedure. I don’t think in the whole time my brother [Shannon] was playing I asked him a football question to help me do my job. I haven’t been here [in Toronto] in a year, and I remember people I met last year. Sterling Sharpe: Pos: WR, Career: 112 G, 66 TD, 595 Rec (78th), 13.7 Y/R, 3xAll-Pro(1st), 5xProBowl, Packers 1988-1994, 3x Rec Leader, born IL 1965 We were watching history in the making.He followed up that performance in 1993 with 112 receptions (a new career high) for 1,274 yards, 11 touchdowns and a per-game average of 79.6.What was even more phenomenal was that Sharpe never missed a game over that seven-year span. The NFL is new. single-season record for receptions in 1993 with 112. Why change?I got no reason to watch. Here’s the thing: There’s a lot of people walking the face of the Earth who didn’t play football and their minds and bodies are really screwed up, for whatever reason. 1994 NFL Season Green Bay Packers, Sharpe had his neck snapped back while blocking a player. That makes no sense.The man’s a legend, and legendary for being prickly with reporters during his playing days.I said I would never play. So whatever happens, guess what? I didn’t even have aspirations of playing in a Super Bowl. His career would have continued far past 1994, if it weren't for an injury that would cut short the career of a player many considered Hall of Fame material. Maybe if Sharpe hadn't suffered a career-ending injury, the Packers could have turned into a dynasty in the late 1990s.And he would still only be 32 years old!Let's imagine that Sharpe had continued playing with Favre. He might have broken Jerry Rice's single-season records for receiving yards and touchdowns.There's nothing worse in sports than a "what if." Who was Sterling Sharpe playing when he suffered his career ending neck injury?