Let’s roll back the clock to Aug. 6, 2011. That’s when Shannon Sharpe delivered one of the most riveting induction speeches in the history of the Pro Football Hall of Fame with a bottom-line message for the ages.
“I’m the only football player that’s in the Hall of Fame, and the second-best player in my own family,” Shannon declared, prompting a standing ovation from the crowd and tears from his presenter and big brother, Sterling.
“If fate had dealt you a different hand,” he added, speaking to Sterling, “there is no question, no question in my mind we would have become the first brothers to be elected to the Hall of Fame.”
Shannon, who became the 267th Hall of Famer, propelled by the three Super Bowl rings he won with the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens, went on to urge the Hall of Fame’s selection committee to take up the case for his brother.
“All I can do is ask in the most humblest way I know, is that the next time you go into that room or start making a list, look at Sterling Sharpe’s accomplishments,” he said.
