August 3, 2025
The three-time first-team All-Professional and five-time Professional Bowl vast 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 sport, when Shannon suited up for the Denver Broncos and Sterling for the Packers, as an alternative of being opponents on the soccer discipline, they had 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, throughout the ceremony. Sterling was in a position to 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 informed the viewers, “All the things I did athletically, all the pieces, I did for an viewers of 1. I didn’t need this particular person to look exterior our personal dinner desk to discover a position mannequin.”
When Shannon gained his first Tremendous Bowl, he gave the ring to Sterling, and he acknowledged that it’s “essentially the most treasured reward I’ve ever obtained.” He then offered Shannon along with his newly given gold jacket.
“The final time I used to be right here, you mentioned you had been the one professional soccer participant within the Corridor of Fame that would say this, that you simply had been the second-best participant in your individual household. Nicely, 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 because of 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 vast receiver. In his final season on the sector, 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 thrice and in landing catches twice. Sterling is one in all 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 grew to become the primary participant to have consecutive seasons with 100-plus receptions. The 108 in 1992 was a single-season NFL file, which he topped the next yr 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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