Showing posts with label NFL Hall of Fame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NFL Hall of Fame. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

LeSean McCoy's jersey makes it to Hall of Fame (VIDEO)

LeSean McCoy is officially in the Hall of Fame — or at least his jersey is.

Here's a video of McCoy's jersey, shoes and gloves officially arriving in the Hall of Fame after he broke Steve Van Buren's single game rushing record this past Sunday against the Lions on the snow-covered field at Lincoln Financial.



McCoy finished with 217 yards and two touchdowns, both of which came in the second half of the game. McCoy has had a lot of great moments with the Eagles, but this past Sunday might have been his signature moment, and one that will always be remembered by the Philly fans.

And now, will also be forever immortalized in the Hall of Fame.


Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Warren Sapp busts a move at Hall of Fame after party

Warren Sapp finally got to put his "Dancing With The Stars" moves to good use this weekend when he took over the dance floor and the DJ booth at an NFL Hall of Fame induction party.

Sapp — sporting his newly acquired yellow HOF jacket — was the guest of honor at the special Warren Sapp party tent in Canton, Ohio ... where stars like Dan Marino, Lawrence Taylor, Marshall Faulk and Deion Sanders came by to party with the former NFL star. 



But during the party, Sapp — clearly feeling the excitement — grabbed the mic and told the crowd, "One time like my dog Ray Lewis used to do."

Then he hit the dance floor and showed he can do more than crush Michael Strahan over the air waves.

Here's the TMZ clip:




 

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Curtis Martin: Playing football 'just wasn't fun'

Curtis Martin is probably the last person who thought he would ever make the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  In fact he was probably the last one to ever think he would play football at all.

The former New York Jets running back repeated what his childhood friends have been reminding him since being elected to the Hall of Fame months ago: 'Who would have dreamed this would ever happen?'

Not me, a humbled Martin said in a New York restaurant yesterday.

"Most of the people are surprised simply because I was the last person they thought would play football," Martin told a gathering of reporters inside the Manhattan eatery.  "Football was like a headache to me.  It was something I felt like I didn't have the time to do.  To me, it just wasn't fun."



Martin— who played only one year of high school football in a tough neighborhood of Pittsburgh at the urging of his mother— was asked when it changed for the fourth-leading rusher in NFL history.

"I don't think it ever changed," he said.  "I think I matured and I recognized the opportunity.  I've spoken previously about how I grew up and where I grew up at.  Football saved my life.  I don't know where I would be.  I don't know if I'd be alive if I hadn't played football."

Injuries hampered Martin's career at Pittsburgh but he busted out after getting drafted by the Patriots in the third round of the 1995 NFL draft.

The Jets' greatest running back went to New York with Bill Parcells in 1998 but it wasn't an easy move.

"I didn't like New York at all," said Martin.  "Beyond not liking New York, I didn't like the Jets. . . I didn't want to play for, what was in my mind, the worst team ever.  I looked at the Jets as the bottom of the barrel.

"If Bill Parcells hadn't been in New York, I wouldn't have left the New England Patriots probably under any other circumstances.  I was willing to play for less to stay with the New England Patriots."

Martin ran for 14,101 career yards and will be inducted in Canton on Aug. 4— the culmination of an unlikely career.  Martin has come full circle and now believes it was meant to be.

"I may not have wanted to play, but I believe you have to do things," Martin said.  "You know the saying, 'You have to do what you have to do so you can do what you want to do.'  I didn't know how to do until I had football in my life."