Warren Sapp says Michael Strahan doesn't belong in Pro Football Hall of Fame

NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Even though defensive end Michael Strahan is a favorite to be elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Newsday reports that Hall of Fame defensive tackle Warren Sapp doesn’t think he should make the cut.

Sapp was elected to the Hall last year.

"I don't think his resume stacks up when you put Tony Dungy, Walter Jones, Marvin Harrison and Derrick Brooks up," Sapp said Tuesday. "Those are four first-ballot Hall of Famers."

Strahan set the single-season sack record at 22.5 in 2002 on a play where Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre appeared to take a dive, prompting 41-year-old Sapp to label the record as a "travesty.”

"When you stack it up," Sapp said, "and he only has four straight Pro Bowls [actually three straight on two different occasions] and a mythical sack record that y'all still walk around like it's something to be praised -- I mean y'all have got to get off your high horse in New York and speak about the real. And when you really measure him up, he comes up short."

Strahan, who has 141.5 career sacks, fired back with a comment of his own.

Hall of Fame voting will take place on Saturday.

[Newsday] [Sports Illustrated]