Strahan gets Sapp-y apology
Michael Strahan may not admit it, but he probably hasn’t had many Saturdays better than this one.
First, he was elected into the Hall of Fame in his second year of eligibility, and hours later, he received an apology from Warren Sapp, his longtime nemesis, after a week of taking shots at one another through the media.
On Sunday on the NFL Network’s Super Bowl pregame show, Sapp said he saw Strahan at the NFL Honors event at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night and asked him for forgiveness.
“I saw Michael Strahan last night on my way going to [see] Derrick Brooks,” Sapp said. “I walked up to him, I grabbed him and hugged him and wouldn’t let him go. I said please forgive me.
“I said, ‘ Dumb Lex Luthor came to the city of Gotham and pulled Superman’s cape. How foolish could I have been, my man? Please forgive me.’”
Strahan didn’t meet with the media on Saturday because of a prior engagement, so it’s unclear whether he accepted Strahan’s apology.
On Tuesday, Sapp told reporters Strahan didn’t deserve to make the Hall of Fame, echoing comments he made after he was elected to Canton last summer.
Saturday night he backtracked, offering an apology.
“I’m going to beg for forgiveness because there’s a party in Canton [Aug. 2], and I promise you, I’m not going to miss it,” Sapp said.