August 3, 2025
The three-time first-team All-Professional and five-time Professional Bowl extensive receiver was inducted 30 years after retiring.
Historical past was made this weekend when Inexperienced Bay Packers legend, Sterling Form, joined his brother Shannon, already inducted, into the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame. The Sharpes are the primary and solely brothers to be inducted into the Corridor of Fame.
Virtually 35 years after the brothers confronted one another within the 1991 AFC Championship recreation, when Shannon suited up for the Denver Broncos and Sterling for the Packers, as an alternative of being opponents on the soccer discipline, they have been on the stage as Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame members. Shannon was inducted into the Corridor in 2011, the place he praised his brother, Sterling, in the course of the ceremony. Sterling was capable of return the favor, 14 years later, on August 2.
The Inexperienced Bay Packers celebrated Sterling’s accomplishment as his youthful brother spoke of his affect on him and his soccer profession.
Sterling instructed the viewers, “Every part I did athletically, all the pieces, I did for an viewers of 1. I didn’t need this particular person to look outdoors our personal dinner desk to discover a function mannequin.”
When Shannon received his first Tremendous Bowl, he gave the ring to Sterling, and he said that it’s “essentially the most treasured present I’ve ever obtained.” He then introduced Shannon along with his newly given gold jacket.
“The final time I used to be right here, you stated you have been the one professional soccer participant within the Corridor of Fame that might say this, that you just have been the second-best participant in your individual household. Properly, I agree with that assertion.” But, he added, “It will be my excessive pleasure so that you can be the one participant within the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame with two gold jackets.”
Sterling didn’t have an extended profession like his brother attributable to a neck damage, forcing him into retirement. Spending his entire profession (seven seasons) with the Inexperienced Bay Packers as a three-time first-team All-Professional and five-time Professional Bowl extensive receiver. In his final season on the sphere, he caught a league-high 18 touchdowns in 1994.
Whereas enjoying within the NFL, Sterling averaged 85 catches and 1,162 yards. Throughout his seven years within the league, he had 65 touchdowns. He led the league in receptions 3 times and in landing catches twice. Sterling is certainly one of six gamers within the Tremendous Bowl period to win the receiving “triple crown,” when he led the NFL in catches (108), receiving yards (1,461), and receiving TDs (13) in 1992. He turned the primary participant to have consecutive seasons with 100-plus receptions. The 108 in 1992 was a single-season NFL report, which he topped the next 12 months when he caught 112 catches.
He could have gotten to the Corridor of Fame sooner if his profession hadn’t been minimize quick.
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